Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) told his constituents that he voted for the House-passed GOP budget resolution because it protects Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. The resolution directs a ...

Congressional leaders are looking to make big reductions to federal spending to pay for President Trump's priorities, and they've singled out Medicaid as a program where they could find significant ...

“People tend to use the terms interchangeably, but they are not at all the same,” says Josh Hodges, the chief customer officer at the National Council on Aging. Unlike Medicare, which is funded by the ...

In response to rising health, economic, and equity burdens of suboptimal nutrition, health care stakeholders are increasingly integrating nutritional supports into health care delivery and financing.

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On this day 60 years ago, the Medicaid and Medicare programs were ...

Using section 1115 waivers, states can test different approaches to managing their Medicaid programs, in a bid to give states flexibility to improve the safety-net programs. The CMS has previously ...

Every day for nearly 18 years, Alessandra Fabrello has been a medical caregiver for her son, on top of being his mom. "It is almost impossible to explain what it takes to keep a child alive who should ...

Our ADvancing States team worked with states to pair research on successful rebalancing strategies with approaches to further ...

As Medicaid programs continue to grow in size, cost, and complexity, program integrity can no longer function as a standalone role—it must be built into the fabric of how programs operate daily.