Medicaid news and information

It's different this time. That's what the bulls say when stock prices soar as a way of discounting warnings that what goes up must always come down.
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Editor's note: As CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C., Michael Tarwater leads one of the largest public hospital systems in the U.S. and faces carrying out its mission in two states that have shunned the coverage expansions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With...
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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney talks with Michael Tarwater, CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C.
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With states bracing for rapid enrollment growth in their Medicaid programs, HHS’ inspector general’s office has given state-based fraud-control units more power to use sophisticated data-analysis tools to recover an estimated $60 million in the next decade.
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The Oregon Health Authority released its benchmark-setting report tracking the progress of the state's Medicaid transformation program, which is projected to save $11 billion over the next 10 years.
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Democrats and Republicans played another game of political tennis this week when House Republicans served up another vote to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Democrats returned a litany of reasons why the 2010 law is good for Americans.
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The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate passed a state budget that includes expansion of the state Medicaid program.
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Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed Wednesday as the first permanent CMS administrator since 2006.
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As the deadline nears for Medicare's first accountable care organizations to decide whether they will continue with the initiative, at least one is debating whether to leave.
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The CMS Innovation Center will apply a more focused approach for the second round of the healthcare reform law's Health Care Innovation Awards that the agency announced Wednesday.
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