
Payments for registered nurses in some states were comparable to that of high-level leaders in companies.
The federal government overspent around $7.6 billion—an overpayment rate of 83.5 percent—for undelivered or insufficient routine home care from 2022 to 2024.
A handful of large corporations now control medication availability, pricing, and payment for the vast majority of Americans.
The bonuses were meant to incentivize quality improvements, but some experts said that had not happened.
The new budget provision levies a fee on companies with 50 or more full-timers receiving Medicaid benefits.
Florida tightens pharmacy benefit managers rules. Iowa bars insurer interference in physician referrals and restricts insurer pre-approval denials.
Find out what cost $200 in 1790 but now costs more than $400,000.
Despite a $60 million annual budget and 270 staff members, the unit produced fewer Medicaid fraud indictments in the past five years than peer states.
Officials expect initial program enrollment to reach the millions at a cost to Medicare of between $1.3 billion and $10 billion per year.
A majority (65 percent) of respondents found it harder to achieve the American Dream compared with their parents’ generation.