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 ...

Senior living: Sick of fighting insurers, hospitals offer their own Medicare Advantage plans

Although hospital-owned plans are only a sliver of the Medicare Advantage market, their enrollment continues growing.
JD SupraOpinion

Keeping Watch On Medicare: 2026 Maximum Fair Prices For Ten Selected Drugs

With appreciation for feedback from Mark Fendrick, Director of the Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) Center at the ...

North suburban hospital named among ‘America's 50 Best Hospitals' for 2026: See the full list

Several Chicago-area hospitals ranked on Healthgrades’ latest report on “America’s Best Hospitals” for 2026, with one ...

Inspector General's Report Sounds the Alarm on a Huge Medicare Advantage Plan Problem

Retirees on Medicare Advantage are missing out on crucial coverage, and their health could suffer because of it.
JD Supra

CMS Adds Georgia and Ohio to States Requiring “Enhanced Oversight” for Hospice Providers

Key Takeaways - CMS has announced that it is adding Georgia and Ohio to its list of states in which hospice providers are now ...
Willamette Week

“Ghost” Physicians Haunt Medicaid Registries in Great Number

In most recent year with available data, more than 1 in 4 of the U.S. doctors enrolled to see Medicaid patients didn’t see even one, according to new OHSU study. Researcher hopes policymakers take ...
Texarkana Gazette

Sick of fighting insurers, hospitals offer their own Medicare Advantage plans

Ever since Larry Wilkewitz retired more than 20 years ago from a wood products company, he's had a commercial Medicare Advantage plan from the insurer Humana.
MPR

Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prices for Botox and 14 Other Major Drugs

HealthDay News — Fifteen prescription medications, including Botox and the diabetes drug Trulicity, will be the focus of ...
Daily Camera

Colorado Medicaid driver fraud cost $25 million — and state blocked payments worth nearly as much, officials say

A Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted a free transportation service that shuttled patients to clinics cost the state $25 ...

Minnesota removes 800 Medicaid providers from system in effort to tackle systemic fraud. Here’s how it’ll impact access to care

The state's Department of Human Services says this move will “strengthen the integrity of Minnesota’s Medicaid programs and services." ...

Quant check on health insurers amid Trump admin's proposal for nearly flat Medicare payment rates

Shares of major U.S. health insurers fell sharply after the Trump administration proposed holding Medicare Advantage payment ...