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CMS Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid in Minnesota: The District Court Rules
On April 6, U.S. District Court Judge Eric Tostrud issued a decision in Minnesota v. Oz. The case was triggered by CMS’s deferral of $259 million in federal matching funds from the Minnesota Medicaid program on February 25. In response, the State filed suit on March 2 asking the court to block the CMS action…
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The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Decision Could Dramatically Impact Newborns’ Access to Health Care
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in the case of Trump v. Barbara, offering the first insight into how the Court will decide the legality of President Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and immigrants who are in the country legally but temporarily (such as,…
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Which Parents Will be Impacted by Medicaid Work Reporting Mandate?
A new work reporting requirement for adults in Medicaid is one of the most widely publicized provisions in the Trump budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed last year and accounts for a great deal of the projected coverage loss and cuts to Medicaid. In fact, a new study from the Urban Institute estimates that between…
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New Report Highlights State Data, Strategies to Protect Pregnant and Postpartum Women from Losing Medicaid Coverage Due to Red Tape
As states press forward to implement the newly required work reporting requirements (WRRs) for Medicaid expansion adults starting next year, researchers at Georgetown CCF remain concerned about coverage losses among those adults who do everything right but still fall through the cracks and become disenrolled. Leo Cuello, Joan Alker and others at CCF have detailed…
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States are Beginning to Grapple with Federal Medicaid Cuts Impact on Rural Health Care
Over the past week more national media outlets published articles on the effects of federal cuts to health care passed last year by Congress and signed into law by President Trump in H.R. 1, “The One Big Beautiful Bill.” The coverage shows how states are starting to grapple with the effects of the federal cuts…