Medicaid news and information

A new MGMA survey finds that more than half of physician practices say they had not yet decided whether they will participate in health plans sold on the new state insurance exchanges.
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Post-acute providers such as nursing homes are facing the kind of managed-care growing pains hospitals experienced in the 1990s.
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There are growing signs that repeal of the medical-device tax, fervently sought by the politically potent device industry, may be a key element in resolving the impasse in Congress over the budget and raising the debt ceiling.
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Maryland has submitted a plan to the federal government to modernize the state's all-payer rate setting system for hospital services, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Friday.
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As the government shutdown nears its second full week, members of Congress and the White House intensified their efforts around a deal to fund the government, with at least one part of the healthcare reform law still in play in those negotiations.
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A former employee at South Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services has pleaded guilty in connection with a breach of data from the agency.
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Detailed record-keeping is essential to surviving an EHR incentive payment audit and it's doubly important with Stage 2 meaningful use and ICD-10, IT leaders like Pam McNutt say.
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A decision by the Obama administration to require that consumers create online accounts before they can browse for insurance plans appears to have led to glitches that have frustrated customers.
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States planning to expand income eligibility for their Medicaid programs next year as well as those not planning to expand eligibility can expect higher enrollment and spending growth than in 2013, according to the findings of a new report. But states choosing not to expand Medicaid under the...
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Insurance companies and others say there's still enough time to fix the online enrollment system before uninsured Americans start getting coverage on Jan. 1.
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