Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed or froze more than $1.1 billion in spending Tuesday, citing concerns about declining revenues and the potential for new tax breaks to drain state dollars even further. (AP Photo/The Columbia Daily Tribune, Vivian Abagiu)

Missouri governor vetoes, freezes $1b of spending

David Lieb · June 25, 2014 1:56 pm

VIDEO: House sees more work ahead on Medicare fraud

Washington Examiner · June 25, 2014 4:00 am

Va. House tosses out McAuliffe’s Medicaid veto

Va. House tosses out McAuliffe’s Medicaid veto

Alan Suderman · June 24, 2014 1:19 am

Medicaid wrongly paid out more than $14 billion last year to managed care organizations, often for treatments or services that were not necessary, never performed or weren't eligible for coverage. (iStock Photo)

Here’s where $14 billion of taxpayer money for Medicaid went

Kelly Cohen · June 21, 2014 10:00 am

New York sued over transgender Medicaid coverage

New York sued over transgender Medicaid coverage

Larry Neumeister · June 19, 2014 10:57 pm

Lawmakers urge Medicare coverage for cancer test

Lawmakers urge Medicare coverage for cancer test

Hope Yen · June 17, 2014 8:19 pm

SUNY resolves Medicaid fraud allegations

SUNY resolves Medicaid fraud allegations

Bryan Cohen · June 17, 2014 6:21 pm

Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter on Monday left open the possibility of expanding Louisiana's Medicaid program to cover more of the working poor. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

David Vitter says he’d consider Medicaid expansion

Melinda Deslatte · June 17, 2014 1:47 pm

A top state Senate budget-writer says differences with the House over Medicaid spending and the state lottery must first be resolved in negotiations for a final updated North Carolina spending plan. (Thinkstock Image)

Senate officially rejects North Carolina House budget proposal

Associated Press · June 17, 2014 1:31 pm

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn stands after signing legislation to restore Medicaid cuts made two years ago along with other changes that will modernize the program during a news conference at Rush University Medical Center Monday, June 16, 2014 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Al Podgorski ) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES

Quinn signs Illinois Medicaid cuts restoration

Sophia Tareen · June 17, 2014 1:53 am

More than 57,000 new applicants have had to wait at least three months before their first appointments, while an additional 64,000 who enrolled for VA health care over the past decade have never been seen by a doctor, according to a VA audit. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Veterans Affairs scandal is a look at future of Obamacare

Elizabeth Price Foley · June 14, 2014 2:21 pm

In an effort to bend the health care cost curve, oncology doctors may soon be encouraged to do the governmentÃ¢â¬â¢s and insurersÃ¢â¬â¢ bidding in rationing high-cost health care treatments and procedures. (Thinkstock)

Bedside rationing is coming with Obamacare but doctors can stop it

Naomi Lopez Bauman · June 14, 2014 1:58 pm