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Medicaid Provider Taxes: A Critical Source of Medicaid Funding for States
As my colleague Edwin Park has detailed, House Republican leaders are considering draconian cuts to Medicaid that would decimate the program. Among the House Budget Committee’s list of options for Medicaid cuts being considered is a restriction on states’ current ability to use provider taxes to help finance their share of the cost of Medicaid.…
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New EPSDT Guidance Reinforces Key Medicaid Prior Authorization Protections for Children – And We’d Like to See Even More
Everyone under the age of twenty-one in Medicaid should have access to health care services they need thanks to Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Diagnostic Screening and Treatment (EPSDT) requirement. In short, EPSDT requires children to get regular screenings and treatment when necessary. And this isn’t a vague hope – it’s the law. However, in at…
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Trump-appointed Federal Court Judge Undercuts Important Legal Tool Used to Eliminate Health Care Fraud
Ultra-conservative politicians often use the risk of health care fraud to stoke fears about investing in public health care programs like Medicaid and Medicare. The funny thing is, their own judges appear to be working hard to make fraud more common. On September 30, 2024, a Trump-appointed Florida judge issued a radical decision to weaken…
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Federal Judge in Tennessee Sides with Individuals Terminated from Medicaid, Finds Numerous Violations in Tennessee Medicaid Eligibility Process
“Poor, disabled, and otherwise disadvantaged Tennesseans should not require luck, perseverance, or zealous lawyering to receive healthcare benefits they are entitled to under the law.” How’s that for an opening sentence to a judicial opinion? That’s how an August 26, 2024, decision in a class action case called A.M.C. v. Stephen Smith started – and…