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Bandages made of medical waste cost Medicare $10B last year—limits are coming
In 2019, before the rule change, Medicare paid about $250 million for these types of skin substitute bandages. However, total ...
Husband, wife from Lorain charged in $1.8 million Medicare fraud case
Mark and Denice Walker pleaded not guilty to 16 counts, including healthcare fraud and wire fraud. Prosecutors said they ...
Letters to the Editor: If we're expected to take Medicare fraud crimes seriously, Trump should be too
During Trump's first term, [Trump] granted clemency to at least 10 healthcare executives and doctors convicted of large-scale ...
ICE granted unprecedented access to Medicaid database to help identify and deport illegal immigrants
Trump administration allows ICE to use Medicaid data for immigration enforcement as 20 states filed lawsuit claiming the ...
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CMS warns states of new Medicaid waiver expectations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is shifting its policy on section 1115 Medicaid waivers. | The Trump ...
ICE getting access to Medicaid records sparks new fears across California
The Trump administration is forging ahead with a plan that is sure to fuel alarm across California's immigrant communities: handing over the personal data of millions of Medicaid recipients to federal ...
Trump administration gives ICE access to Medicaid patient data for immigration enforcement
A new federal agreement will give ICE access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s Medicaid ...
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AI Meets Medicare: Inside CMS’ WISeR Model With Sanjay Doddamani, MD, MBA
Sanjay Doddamani, MD, MBA, a former senior advisor to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and internist and ...
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Medicare plans to cover more than a thousand new procedures in outpatient settings, despite concerns about safety
Medicare wants to allow far more more surgeries to be done in outpatient facilities like ambulatory surgery centers.