Expensive beer, millions overpaid to a Medicaid program’s providers and more from the Colorado legislature this week

Colorado lawmakers voted Wednesday to send millions of dollars to the state’s overcrowded prison system, one week after a key ...

For years, Colorado Medicaid mistakenly paid a program’s providers several times too much — costing millions

You either laugh at this one, or you cry,” Rep. Kyle Brown said. ” … So maybe it’s $20 million in a given year, and it’s been ...

Colorado Medicaid overpaid wheelchair transport providers tens of millions in 5-year upcoding error

For five years, the Joint Budget Committee said transportation companies using vans for extra large wheelchairs were billing the state for a specialty ambulance.

Yadkin County woman sentenced in $2M Medicaid fraud scheme

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A Yadkin County woman was recently sentenced to prison for her involvement in a multi-million ...
The Colorado Sun

Plan to cut Medicaid rates for Coloradans with disabilities gets no support from governing board, moves ahead anyway

State Medicaid officials said they have authority to continue with the plan through an executive order from Gov. Jared Polis ...
Colorado Public Radio

Medicaid recipients, advocates furious over state mistake that’s costing tens of millions of dollars

This now threatens funding for programs supporting thousands of Colorado families with children with disabilities.
FOX 35 Orlando on MSN

Florida recreational marijuana, campaign to expand Medicaid fail to make 2026 ballot

Florida officials announced that every proposed constitutional amendment submitted by petitioners failed to qualify for the ...

'Ghost' providers hinder access to health care for Medicaid patients

Almost one-third of physicians who are enrolled in Medicaid don't actually care for a single patient covered by Medicaid ...
KIVI-TV

'It needs to be personal': Caldwell Meals on Wheels faces proposed Idaho Medicaid cuts

Caldwell Meals on Wheels could lose funding for 54 community members under Gov. Little's proposed Medicaid cuts, threatening ...

Kootenai County woman sentenced for Medicaid fraud

The executive director of a Coeur d'Alene child development center has been sentenced to a Medicaid fraud scheme.

Kootenai County woman sentenced for Medicaid fraud scheme conducted at Coeur d'Alene nonprofit

The AG says the woman, the director of a nonprofit that provides developmental disability services to Idaho Medicaid ...