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Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements: More than Meets the Eye
Republicans from President Trump on down are trying to hide the ball on how much they want to cut federal Medicaid payments to states and how they would go about doing so. But as my colleague Edwin Park has explained, they are working from the same playbook as they used in 2017 during the first…
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Happy 15th Birthday, ACA
Fifteen years ago this month, President Obama signed into law the two bills that together make up the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It was, to borrow a phrase, a BFD. In a blog, on the occasion of a previous birthday, my colleague Joan Alker methodically laid out just how big a deal the ACA was…
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Medicaid Fraud: The Improper Use of Improper Payments
Welcome to another installment on the misuse of the Medicaid “improper payments” metric. This conversation began in 2018, then continued in 2020, 2022, and this year. For those just joining, Brian Blase of the Paragon Institute and his colleague, Rachel Greszler of the Economic Policy Innovation Center, have launched yet another misguided assault on federal…
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Medicaid Managed Care: The Big Five in Q4 2024
The “Big Five” earnings results for Q4 of 2024 are now in. The “Big Five” are the publicly-held companies that together control half of the Medicaid managed care market: Centene, CVSHealth/Aetna, Elevance Health, Molina Healthcare, and UnitedHealth Group. (There are five nonprofit Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) with significant regional or single-state market footprints, but…