Medscape19d
Accomplishments and Challenges in Medicaid Mental Health
States can use either Medicaid Section 1915(c) or Section 1115 waivers to give the elderly and people with disabilities (including those with mental illness) greater involvement, control ...
WFYI1d
FSSA establishes new deadlines for Hoosiers invited off Medicaid waiver waitlists
The Family and Social Services Administration is giving people 180 days to complete a service plan and several assessments to ...
WFYI9d
Legislation would tackle barriers for assisted living services — including Medicaid waiver waitlist
More than 10,000 Hoosiers are waiting for home- and community-based services through Medicaid waivers, including those ...
Mother Jones14d
Trump’s War on Medicaid Will Institutionalize Millions of People
Known as Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers, the programs—now in their fourth decade—are funded by Medicaid and run by each individual state. With potential cuts to Medicaid a ...
Post and Courier11d
Q&A: SC Medicaid asking to cover more low-income parents, but they will have to work for it
The state had previously pursued what is known as a Section 1115 waiver from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to add Medicaid work requirements. It was granted in 2019 under ...
The Washington Post24d
Democrats move to protect Medicaid, wary of Trump’s looming changes
The Trump administration can also reshape the program by taking action through its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which can issue waivers that empower states to implement work ...
The Intercept8d
Marco Rubio’s USAID “Humanitarian Waiver” Isn’t Helping Restart Lifesaving Programs
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s humanitarian waiver for foreign aid is a “performative” bit of “lip service,” said former contractors with the U.S. Agency for International Development ...
NPR28d
Biden's Medicaid director shares lessons learned and concerns for the program's future
Republicans in Congress have begun discussing possible changes to Medicaid — the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans that covers 80 million people. Those ...
Brattleboro Reformer25d
Vermont announces new Medicaid flexibility
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved an amendment to Vermont’s Global Commitment to Health (Global Commitment) 1115 demonstration waiver, which gives Vermont ...
Sports Illustrated3d
What is the NFL waiver wire order? Where Chargers, NFL teams sit as offseason begins
The Los Angeles Chargers were actually one of the NFL’s more interesting teams on the waiver wire this past season. There, for example, they found former Miami Dolphins safety Marcus Maye in ...
STAT29d
Shredding the Medicaid safety net
Shachar is an assistant clinical professor of law and faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School. Musumeci is an ...
Post and Courier26d
Big cuts to Medicaid could be particularly hard on South Carolina children and mothers
Congressional leaders are eying drastic cuts to Medicaid that could have a damaging ... He plans to submit an application for a waiver to implement those policies "on the first day of President ...