Medicaid, the federal and state program that provides health coverage to low-income and elderly adults, children, pregnant women and people with disabilities, is countercyclical by nature. During an ...

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 ...

As Medicaid spending continues to increase, the CMS hopes focusing on flexbility, accountability and the integrity of managed care plans will help slow that growth, an agency official said Wednesday.

* * * Misclassification of Drugs, Program Administration and Program Integrity Updates Under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program Notice for Proposed Rulemaking (CMS-2434-P) The Centers for Medicare & ...

Since our nation’s founding, Americans have valued hard work and self-sufficiency. With near record-low unemployment and seven million open jobs, the American Dream has never been more attainable. So ...

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 ...

Hospital associations and business groups have called on CMS to withdraw a rule that aims to strengthen the fiscal integrity of the Medicaid program, arguing that it could exacerbate the challenges ...

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 ...

Minnesota is cutting roughly 800 providers from its Medicaid rolls in one of the most sweeping integrity crackdowns the state ...

Federal prosecutors say Minnesota's Medicaid system is facing a fraud crisis so large it could eclipse 9 billion dollars, a ...