Over the last three years, the Coronavirus public health emergency was extended several times. The PHE and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act altered Medicaid eligibility, and as a result, Medicaid enrollment surged during the pandemic. Between February 2020 and July 2022, 82 million people...
Since its passage in 1965, the Medicaid program has expanded to become the single largest payer for health care in the United States, costing $671.2 billion in 2020. Due to surges in enrollment from the pandemic and the current administration's priorities, spending is only expected to...
Over the past ten years, Medicaid has become one of the fastest and largest growing items on state budgets. In 2015, the program accounted for 20 percent of state budget spending and in 2018 it had grown to 30 percent. Last month, a report from...
Recent reports from the HHS OIG and the Louisiana Auditor General have indicated a high rate of Medicaid improper payments due to incorrectly determining Medicaid eligibility. The Senate Finance Committee wrote CMS on March 1st to inform the agency of their concerns over the...