What the 2025 budget bill means for hospital revenue and readiness
Key takeaways: Changes to Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act provisions in H.R. 1 are expected to increase financial...
CMS warns states of new Medicaid waiver expectations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is shifting its policy on Section 1115 Medicaid waivers. In letters to...
Providers prepare contingency plans amid regulatory shifts
Hospitals, health systems and physician practices are shifting their operational and financial strategies in the face of rapidly changing federal...
Medicaid insurers cleared to text enrollees under Trump’s work requirements law
Tucked inside President Donald Trump’s controversial bill incorporating Medicaid work requirements during his administration is a provision that makes it...
House votes 218-214 to send reconciliation bill to Trump’s desk
The House has voted 218-214 to send Republican’s Senate-passed spending bill to President Donald Trump’s Desk, ensuring that the healthcare...
Senate bill cuts Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood
The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” which narrowly passed Tuesday, includes a provision that would prohibit...
AHIP 2025: Insurer coalition vows to fight Trump budget bill to final hour
LAS VEGAS — At AHIP’s annual conference, the trade group told reporters they oppose the reconciliation bill moving through Congress...
How healthcare providers can verify health insurance coverage without an SSN
Tracking down missing health coverage has always been challenging for providers, but proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act and...
‘Watching the clues’: Uncertainty clouds Medicare conference
Medicare agents and brokers are trying to get a handle on a rapidly changing health landscape, but, in some respects,...
Brooks-LaSure warns ‘cavalier’ CMS cuts endanger health programs
Former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is not buying the Trump administration’s claim health programs...
