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Study Finds Inconsistencies in Reporting of Medicaid Expenditures, Payments

Posted Administrator Account on 12/4/2012
A review by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found inconsistencies between government databases containing reported Medicaid expenditures.

AHA Files Suit Over Nonpayment for Medicare Services

Posted Administrator Account on 11/1/2012
The American Hospital Association this week filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for failing to meet its financial obligations to hospitals that provide care to some Medicare patients.

CMS Issues Correction on Medicare Readmission Rule

Posted Administrator Account on 10/22/2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made some corrections in the rule establishing its hospital readmissions reduction program which began October 1.

Judge Rules for NH Hospitals in Suit Over Medicaid Payments

Posted Administrator Account on 10/22/2012
A federal judge has denied a motion by the State of New Hampshire seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by hospitals over cuts to that state's Medicaid program.

Mass. High Court Rules Against Hospitals in Payment Dispute

Posted Administrator Account on 9/17/2012
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts last week affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a pair of lawsuits brought by hospitals and a managed care organization that claimed they were underpaid for treating Medicaid patients.

Doctors Call for Changes to Medicare Payment System

Posted Administrator Account on 9/17/2012
The American Medical Association (AMA) is urging Washington to make a number of improvements to how physicians are paid under Medicare.

Texas Counties Looking at Medicaid Expansion

Posted Administrator Account on 8/29/2012
While Texas Governor Rick Perry has said that the state won't participate in Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, a number of large Texas counties are looking at ways to leverage additional Medicaid funds from Washington.

Safety Net Hospitals Could Suffer Under New Medicare Payment Rules

Posted Administrator Account on 8/28/2012
Hospitals that serve as safety nets for the poor and those without insurance could be especially disadvantaged under new payment rules that go into effect in October.

Court Ruling on Medicaid Expansion Will Reduce Cost of ACA

Posted Administrator Account on 8/7/2012
A report prepared by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act will result in fewer Americans securing health insurance coverage.

Medicaid Reductions to Hit Louisiana Hospitals

Posted Administrator Account on 7/24/2012
Louisiana hospitals will see reductions in Medicaid payments as a result of compromises in a federal transportation spending bill passed earlier this month.

Opposing Medicaid Expansion - Can States Afford to Say No?

Posted Administrator Account on 7/11/2012
The states that challenged the Medicaid expansion provision of the Affordable Care Act scored a win with the Supreme Court's ruling that the federal government could not curtail current Medicaid funding to those states that refused to participate in the expansion.

High Court Upholds Health Reform Act, Strikes Down Medicaid Expansion Requirement

Posted Administrator Account on 7/11/2012
In a surprise to many, the United States Supreme Court today upheld the Affordable Care Act while striking down the individual mandate that requires essentially all Americans to obtain health insurance coverage.

Court Action on Affordable Care Act Could Come This Week

Posted Administrator Account on 6/25/2012
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down a ruling over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act as early as this week, causing observers to play a guessing game as to what the ruling will say, and the effects it will have on health care.

After Period of Slow Growth, Health Spending to Accelerate

Posted Administrator Account on 6/15/2012
Spending on health care in the U.S. will continue to grow slowly over the next two years, but should increase after that once provisions of the Affordable Care Act kick in according to a report published in Health Affairs.

Hawaii Drops Plan to Eliminate Some Medicaid Services

Posted Administrator Account on 6/7/2012
The Hawaii Department of Human Services has said it will restore Medicaid coverage for certain services provided to non-disabled adults that are younger than 65 years of age.
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