The buck stops here. We’ve got to clean up the system. With these words, Dr. Mehmet Oz, now at the helm of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), signaled a pivotal moment for Medicaid ...

Medicaid is the joint federal-state health insurance program that provides medical coverage to almost five million low-income, elderly, disabled Floridians and children. Although the federal ...

A constant refrain from the Trump administration about rooting out fraud, waste and abuse isn’t just about budget cuts. For nursing homes, it may signal increasing audit risk and a rise in burdensome ...

Federal watchdogs have confirmed that Medicaid sent more than $207 million in payments tied to people who were already dead, ...

Rollout of New York’s state Medicaid program is receiving close scrutiny from advocacy groups—and now, the federal government. The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP, is the state ...

The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 provided the resources to establish the Medicaid Integrity Program (MIP), the first national strategy in the 40-year history of the Medicaid program to promote the ...

Iowa has saved more than $23 million in cost avoidance or recoveries in the first year using a new Medicaid program integrity initiative, according to a news release. The state used a variety of ...

Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, appears on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 14. His agency is scouring Medicaid payments for immigrants without permanent legal ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Trump administration is taking its immigration crackdown to the health care safety net, launching Medicaid spending probes in at least six Democratic-led states that provide ...

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun has unveiled nine executive orders aimed at reversing chronic disease through healthier eating, exercise and reducing Medicaid spend in a joint press conference Tuesday. Braun ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is scouring payments covering health care for immigrants without legal status to ensure there isn’t any waste, fraud or abuse, according to public ...