Americans with disabilities saw major increases in health insurance coverage over the last decade since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed, according to new federal data released Monday.
The U.S. Justice Department has joined a series of whistleblower lawsuits alleging that Kaiser Permanente engaged in a years-long scheme to defraud the federal government out of Medicare payments. The suits allege that since 2009 the company systematically pressured doctors to amend medical records by adding “diagnoses that patients did not actually have” in order to receive higher Medicare reimbursements, according to federal prosecutors.
Trinity Health System physicians and Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield in Ohio have a new networking agreement. The agreement, announced Tuesday, “will assure Ohio Valley consumers’ continued access to affordable health care at Trinity Health System hospitals, physicians and affiliated care providers through 2025,” the hospital said.
Jacey Cooper has served as California’s Medicaid director since January 2020. She previously worked as the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) senior advisor of health care programs and assistant deputy director of health care delivery systems, and has also held leadership positions at Meridian Healthcare Partners, Kern Medical Center, and COPE Health Solutions. Taking the helm of the department just before the onset of the pandemic, Cooper has been at the forefront of California’s fight against COVID-19.
North Carolina transitioned control of Medicaid to five private companies on July 1 after years of planning, but the switch is resulting in "a lot of challenges."
Regardless of where you stand on Medicaid expansion, all of us can agree that Missouri’s Medicaid system is broken. Plagued by high costs and poor outcomes, our citizens deserve and have demanded better. But entrenched special interests and wealthy non-profits are now running off to court to try and prevent even the most common sense of Medicaid reforms from being enacted.