Entitlements

President Trump, thank you very much for Section 11, Maximizing Freedom for Medicare Patients and Providers, of your Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to allow nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to practice under their full scope as Medicare providers.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) say more hospitals will receive positive payments than negative ones under its program to incentivize quality care for Medicare hospital patients.

A sweeping drug pricing bill pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been slowed by a disagreement between progressive and more moderate Democrats.

Indiana and Arizona are holding off implementing their proposed Medicaid work requirements as lawsuits on the matter await resolution.

Eager to free their state from what they say is “excessive or unnecessary intervention in its Medicaid program,” officials in Tennessee are putting the final touches on a sweeping proposal to

The booming economy is the primary driver of the dramatic decrease.

Medi-Cal, California’s sprawling Medicaid program, is working under new rules expanding reimbursement for telemedicine.

Louisiana’s latest report on the economic impact of its three-year-old Medicaid expansion program is under fire for claiming it is “supporting more than 14,000 jobs across the state and supporting $889 million in personal earnings.”

The Louisiana Department of Health is expected to release a study by researchers at Louisiana State University claiming that Medicaid expansion created tens of thousands of jobs in state

Democrat voters are confused about what a single-payer, Medicare for All plan actually means, a new poll shows.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at shoring up Medicare’s financial health and delivering better care to the nation’s seniors.

The Trump administration’s greenlighting of CAR-T cell cancer therapy for Medicare patients nationwide put an end to the patchwork of local determinations on the use of the innovative and expensive treatment.

In three short years, the Trump administration has cut taxes and regulations. Therefore, people have more money to spend, and businesses (finally) have incentive to create lots of good-paying jobs.

Several studies estimate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ recently released Medicare for All (M4A) plan would cost approximately $30–$40 trillion over the next decade.

In an effort to transform its financially troubled Medicaid program, the state of Alaska has implemented “emergency regulations” to cut Medicaid reimbursement rates and is working

An audit by the Tennessee Office of Inspector General found 16 people living in Georgia received coverage under TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program, and are now under investigation.

Hospital readmission rates for enrollees in Medicare Advantage (MA) are slightly higher than for those in traditional, fee-for-service Medicare plans, a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reports.

The Trump administration is rolling out new payment rules and incentives under an executive order to deliver better health care for kidney disease, a condition that afflicts 37 million people in the United States and has limited treatment options.

In many cases, tax burdens would double, and for tens of millions of families, the increased taxes would far outweigh not needing to pay for health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs.

Hospice providers under Medicare commonly deliver poor service that endangers the health of those using the program, the Office of Inspector General in the U.S Department of Health and Human Services reports.

Whether the Trump administration has an appetite for approving a Medicaid block grant may depend on the outcome of a federal lawsuit on Obamacare

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) turned down a first of its kind request to provide 90 percent funding for expanding Medicaid to able-bodied adults

The issue of Medicaid reform was in the spotlight at a hearing before the Ohio Senate Finance Committee during state budget discussions.