Healthcare Leadership Council Releases Six Reform Ideas to Improve Health Care
The Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), in cooperation with the National Opinion Research Center, announced six key areas in the current healthcare program that need reforming. Each ...
Iowans Still Awaiting Federal Decision on Proposed Medicaid Plan
Iowa state officials are waiting on a federal waiver to go forward with Governor Terry Branstad’s plan to privatize Medicaid. The proposed program would switch 560,000 Medicaid ...
CMS: Providers Must Report Medicare Overpayments Going Back Six Years
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has established that health providers must report overpayments going back six years rather than 10.
The controversial rule about ...
Revised Rule Means Providers Must Report Medicare Overpayment in Last Six Years
The CMS has finalized a rule that dictates health providers must report Medicare overpayment for the previous six years. When the rule was initially introduced, it required providers ...
Federal Waiver Needed to Switch Iowa Medicaid Patients to Private Care
Iowa Governor Branstad introduced a plan that would switch 560,000 Medicaid patients in Iowa to privately managed care plans. However, the state is currently waiting for a waiver to ...
Flint to Expand Medicaid Coverage in Wake of Water Crisis
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder called for expanded Medicaid coverage to cover the water crisis in Flint to include pregnant women and residents up to 21 years old in order to better ...
Lower Court Must Rule on Medicare’s Backlog of Claims
A federal appeals court has sent a lawsuit back to lower courts, forcing it to make a decision on the length of time it takes for the government to complete cases of denied Medicare ...
Arkansas Senate Primaries to Determine Future of State Medicaid
Governor Asa Hutchinson is attempting to renew Arkansas’ Private Option Medicaid expansion, but the fate of this decision rests with the results of the Senate primaries. Hutchinson’s ...
Leakage Takes Toll on U.S. Retirement Savings
A survey of 5,000 retirement plan participants has found that younger workers and those with balances of less than $20,000 are more likely to cash out on their 401(k) plans.
According ...
Houston Police Search for Retirement Home Scammers
Houston police are searching for two young women who have been scamming retirement home residents by pretending to be high school students raising funds for a school trip.
The young ...