Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

FILE - This Dec. 19, 2013, file photo shows Avalere Health Vice President Caroline Pearson, a researcher who follows the health law, as she poses for a photo in her office in Washington. If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don't give much thought to each year's renewal. But make the same assumption in one of the new health law plans, and it could lead to costly surprises. Insurance exchange customers who opt for convenience by automatically renewing their coverage for 2015 are likely to receive dated and inaccurate financial aid amounts from the government, say industry officials, advocates and other experts. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Plan to simplify 2015 health renewals may backfire

Ricardo AlonsoZaldivar · July 27, 2014 1:02 pm

In this July 11, 2014 photo, primary care doctor John Guerreiro checks on the records of a patient at a clinic run by the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Beaverton, Ore. The center comprised of nine clinics in northwestern Oregon, serveing 36,000 patients in Washington and Yamhill has been overwhelmed under the Affordable Health Care Act's Medicaid expansion. It has closed to new enrollees and is working through a backlog to assign thousands of patients to a doctor. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)

Medicaid enrollees strain Oregon

Washington Examiner · July 23, 2014 7:19 pm

Bob Dole emerges to hit Obamacare, IRS, Veterans Affairs scandals

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Bob Dole emerges to hit Obamacare, IRS, Veterans Affairs scandals

Paul Bedard · July 22, 2014 4:45 pm

An audience member wears an Oklahoma Health Care Authority shirt during an OHCA board meeting in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Pediatricians and wheelchair providers from across the state warned that cuts to reimbursement rates could force them to stop providing services to some of Oklahomaâs neediest citizens. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board unanimously approved a 7.75 percent provider rate cut during a special meeting as it grapples with a $104 million hole in its budget for the new fiscal year. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Health officials crack down on Medicaid marketing

Kelli Kennedy · July 22, 2014 1:50 pm

Denise Mesteth poses outside the powwow grounds in Pine Ridge, S.D. Mesteth is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, born and raised on the Pine Ridge reservation. She has signed up for health insurance through the federal marketplace. (AP Photo/Nora Hertel)

Some Native Americans wary about health reform

Associated Press · July 20, 2014 5:04 pm

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton addresses the media in St. Paul, Minn. Minnesota's next two-year state budget will top the $40 billion mark. The four Republicans seeking to defeat Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton say they'll apply the spending brakes if put in charge. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

GOP hopefuls differ on how to rein in state budget in Minnesota

Associated Press · July 20, 2014 4:00 am

BlueCross BlueShield Drops 53K Customers in Western New York

Michael Warren · July 18, 2014 3:22 pm

NY’s Medicaid covering post-birth contraceptives

NY’s Medicaid covering post-birth contraceptives

Michael Sisak · July 17, 2014 11:38 pm

Landrieu: Cassidy Wants to Hurt Seniors

Michael Warren · July 15, 2014 6:14 pm

Groups spend heavily lobbying on Medicaid

Groups spend heavily lobbying on Medicaid

Alan Suderman · July 14, 2014 8:23 pm

Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes resurrects ‘Mediscare’ tactic

Beltway Confidential

Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes resurrects ‘Mediscare’ tactic

Blake Seitz · July 11, 2014 8:30 pm

Alaska wants mediation over Medicaid billing system

Alaska wants mediation over Medicaid billing system

Becky Bohrer · July 11, 2014 12:46 am