Medicare and medicaid

Non-citizen children from families with mixed immigration status in the United States were much more likely to be uninsured than their citizen siblings, and this lack of coverage resulted in delays in needed medical care, according to a recent study. Examination of family data from 2008 to 2018 where at …

The Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare, became entrenched in the national safety net after a third U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding its constitutionality. As a result of the move, President Joe Biden’s administration and various states are looking to upgrade Medicaid, the federal state program that provides …

CHICAGO, July 20, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Zing Health has partnered with ConnectureDRX, a leading healthcare software company, to provide insurance brokers and consumers with a superior experience in choosing the Medicare Advantage plans that best match needs of each beneficiary. Zing Health. (PRNewsfoto / Zing Health) The collaboration …

introduction More than 900 hospitals across the United States are approaching a deadline imposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to report overpayments due to the withdrawal (explant) of defective cardiac medical devices if the remissions of 50 % or more provided by manufacturers were not deducted …

Earlier in July, I was proud to welcome a member of the Presidential Cabinet and other senior US health officials to the Cherokee Nation. US Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, Administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Acting Director of the Indian Health …

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) – Community activists pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges on Friday for spray-painted messages on a street outside the Alabama Capitol urging the state to expand Medicaid. The four activists of the SaveOurSelves justice and democracy movement were arrested last summer after painting “Expand Medicaid: and“ Black …

Misty Rebik, a native of Iowa who led Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Iowa Caucus campaign, presents the senator at a campaign event. (Submitted) Misty Rebik walks with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders outside of a 2019 Iowa Caucus campaign event in Des Moines. Rebik, who campaigned in Iowa, is now …

As home care helps drive Congress to understand the need for increased funding for Medicaid, providers on Thursday made two key Medicare-related demands. They called on Senate leaders to oppose an extension of mandatory Medicare sequestration as a payment in any infrastructure package and to block the use of Medicare …

All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) programs are enjoying a moment in the limelight, as the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats scramble to expand home and community services. But during a webinar on Wednesday sponsored by healthcare advocacy group Altarum, administrators at PACE said accessibility and policy changes needed …

To require assisted living providers to report weekly COVID-19 vaccination data to the federal government would be asking too much of operators already grappling with the effects of the pandemic and could even prevent some operators from continuing to operate. providing services to Medicaid recipients, according to representatives of several …