Report looks at why rural hospitals are closing
FierceHealthcare reports: “The number of U.S. rural hospitals that shut their doors reached a record-setting 19 last year, according to a new report that aims to pinpoint why hospitals are closing....
View ArticleThe future of CHIP
By PHIL GALEWITZ For Kaiser Health News Congress finally seems ready to take action on the Children’s Health Insurance Program after funding lapsed Sept. 30. Before the deadline, lawmakers were busy...
View ArticlePatients, insurers challenge Iowa’s privatized Medicaid managed care
By CLAY MASTERS For Iowa Public Radio And Kaiser Health News Iowa is one of 38 states that radically changed the way it runs Medicaid over the past few years. The state moved about 600,000 people on...
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Chasing Medicaid dollars, hospitals rent or buy up nursing homes
By PHIL GALEWITZ For Kaiser Health News Westminster Village North, a nursing-home and retirement community in Indianapolis, recently added 25 beds and two kitchens to speed food delivery to residents....
View ArticleCMS chief wants to toughen Medicaid rules
In a Governing magazine news article, CMS Administrator Seema Verma discusses how she would like to make Medicaid recipients take more personal responsibility, including by CMS imposing work...
View ArticleBig off-year election for healthcare
By JULIE ROVNER For Kaiser Health News Health care appears to have played an unexpectedly robust role in Tuesday’s off-year elections, as Democrats swept statewide races in Virginia and New Jersey and...
View ArticleMore states rescinding Medicaid ‘retroactive eligibility’
By MICHELLE ANDREWS For Kaiser Health News If you’re poor, uninsured and fall seriously ill, in most states if you qualify for Medicaid — but weren’t enrolled at the time — the program will pay your...
View ArticleCMS expanding program to help rural hospitals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that it is adding 13 more hospitals to its Rural Community Hospital program, joining 17 other participating hospitals. The pilot program...
View ArticleHealthcare price inflation speeding up
According to a report (PDF) from Altarum, healthcare prices grew 2.2 in April from a year earlier, the highest rate since January 2012. Hospital price growth, the main culprit, jumped 3.6 percent...
View ArticleThe transformation of Ohio’s healthcare
Governing Magazine looks at how a small state office in Ohio has transformed healthcare in that state. The article concludes: “When he ran for president in 2016, {Ohio Gov. John} Kasich took heat...
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