The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has pulled information on health equity for the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through Section 1115 waivers. Now, CMS is ...

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 15-- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the following news release: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

Medicaid is the joint federal-state health insurance program that provides medical coverage to almost five million low-income, elderly, disabled Floridians and children. Although the federal ...

The buck stops here. We’ve got to clean up the system. With these words, Dr. Mehmet Oz, now at the helm of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), signaled a pivotal moment for Medicaid ...

Using section 1115 waivers, states can test different approaches to managing their Medicaid programs, in a bid to give states flexibility to improve the safety-net programs. The CMS has previously ...

The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 provided the resources to establish the Medicaid Integrity Program (MIP), the first national strategy in the 40-year history of the Medicaid program to promote the ...

There are significant deficiencies in the Medicaid program's ability to detect and prevent fraud, waste and abuse, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office, which outlines key ...

Despite the late Justice Louis Brandeis's famous praise of the American political system for helping courageous states serve as "laboratories of democracy," the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

Milliman, Inc. is proud to announce that it has been selected as the winner of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

Serving as the primary liaison for the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, the ORHT is now responsible for ...

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun has unveiled nine executive orders aimed at reversing chronic disease through healthier eating, exercise and reducing Medicaid spend in a joint press conference Tuesday. Braun ...

The Government Accountability Office has issued a report recommending CMS more clearly communicate its goals for the Medicare Integrity Program and improve the reliability of data used to calculate ...