2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (139+ words) On today’s show, guest-host Sara Blanco discusses police accountability in Mississippi with the Senatobia Committee for Accountability and Transparency, a community group demanding reform following local police violence, including the shooting of one-year-old baby Kohen Wiley. Also, while California almost…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (566+ words) Editor’s Note: This article concerns Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage, not Medicare plan enrollment. That’s significant because CMS says Enhanced Direct Enrollment platforms accounted for approximately 76% of active plan selections during 2026 Open Enrollment. The additional protection is intended to make…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (280+ words) Fatima Hussein And Ali Swenson WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is promising $500 rebate checks to an estimated 1 million Affordable Care Act enrollees across 30 states, whom the White House alleges were overcharged by the Biden administration for exchange fees. The promise comes…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (205+ words) Beginning October 1, 2029, OBBBA makes significant changes to Medicaid's Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) program: The law eliminates the "good faith waiver," making penalties for error rates over 3 percent mandatory, and it changes definitions to expand the universe of payments subject…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (516+ words) BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Maryland lawmakers pressed state health officials Wednesday over millions of dollars in questionable Medicaid payments and other repeat problems flagged by state auditors, including claims tied to people who were incarcerated or already dead. The scrutiny came during…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (837+ words) 🏥 The state’s Health Authority and Medicaid agencies are urging Nevadans to keep an eye out for letters detailing new Medicaid work requirements, which begin on Jan. 1, according to reporting by KNPR's Anne Davis. Starting at the beginning of the year,…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (478+ words) By Nicole Weatherholtz | Monday, 07 September 2026 12:42 PM EDT California’s soaring Medicaid payments to government-run ambulance providers are putting a decades-old financing practice under renewed scrutiny as critics say states can use it to push more of the program’s costs onto federal…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (171+ words) Are you uninsured? Register reporter Jennifer Huffman is doing a story about Napa County residents who have dropped Covered California insurance and may be uninsured. Signorello filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Thursday to address over $37 million in debt amid foreclosure…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (426+ words) In a complicated legal dispute between Texas lawmakers and the Trump administration, hospitals, particularly rural ones, are left holding the bag. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, are withholding…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (614+ words) Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown recently announced that his office is suing United Health Group. Between 2019 and 2024, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Health Care— Optum -- had a 126.9-million-dollar contract with the Maryland Department of Health to process Medicaid claims…...