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CMS Proposes Caps on Medicaid State Directed Payments and Fee for Service Supplemental Payments, Further Cutting Federal...

Federal Medicaid cuts add to usual health care funding challenges in state budget

There are growing calls for help across the health care spectrum amid concerns over the impact of federal Medicaid cuts.

CMS releases guidance on limits to Medicaid, CHIP funding for certain noncitizens

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services April 8 issued guidance on implementing a provision within the reconciliation bill passed in July 2025 regarding federal matching fun...

Billions for Medicaid Spending Congress Never Approved

The Biden administration may have failed to convince Congress to double Medicaid spending on home healthcare in 2021, but the funding increase occurred anyway.An RCI analysis of fe...

General Assembly sends Medicaid funding bill to Gov. Josh Stein's desk

The bill provided stopgap funding for the state's Medicaid program but also started to implement changes required under federal legislation passed last year.

Unbridled Spending: Billions for Medicaid Expansion Congress Never Approved

(By Walter Curt/RealClear Wire) – The Biden administration may have failed to convince Congress to double Medicaid spending on home healthcare in 2021, but the funding increase occ...

States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts

Hundreds of hospitals nationwide are bracing for Medicaid cuts as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Some state lawmakers are eyeing loans and other forms of financial aid...

North Carolina General Assembly gives final approval to $319M in Medicaid funding

North Carolina lawmakers approved final passage of $319 million in Medicaid funding to keep the state program afloat after months of uncertainty. It now heads to Democratic Gov. Jo...

Bracing for federal cuts, some states are already paring back Medicaid services

Paying for doulas to help birthing moms in maternity care deserts was a priority for Montana. But it halted the plan amid a budget shortfall and fears over coming federal Medicaid...

CMS issues proposed rule on Medicaid supplemental payments

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services May 20 released a proposed rule that would modify policies governing Medicaid state-directed payment...

Federal Scrutiny of State Medicaid Programs and Medicaid Providers Intensifies

Key Takeaways CMS and congressional leaders are increasing oversight of state Medicaid programs through off-cycle revalidation demands, fraud investigations and threats to defer f...

Healthcare finance leaders cite federal funding uncertainty, Medicaid cuts as top concerns

Amid funding uncertainty, 57% of leaders report reducing costs as their top priority for the year—followed closely by managing strategic and performance improvement initiatives.

Trump administration defers more Medicaid funding to Minnesota after FBI raids

An additional $91 million that funds social services for the state’s most vulnerable residents is at risk.

How the “Payor of Last Resort” Rule Affects Seniors Seeking Medicaid

Medicaid often stands between older adults and the crushing costs of long-term care, yet the program is built on a strict financial principle called the “payor of last resort” rule...

Gov. Stein signs Medicaid funding bill despite concerns about some provisions

The legislation moved $319 million to the state's Medicaid program and also provided critical funding for the state's prison system, DMV and State Bureau of Investigation.

Nearly half of reproductive age women with Medicaid coverage live in states restricting abortion: KFF

Despite the expansion of abortion funding for Medicaid enrollees, nearly half of women of reproductive age with Medicaid coverage live in a state that follows the Hyde Amendment re...

States Rely on Adequate Funds from Title V MCH Block Grant to Address Maternal and Child Health Needs

The Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant is a federal-state partnership focused on improving the health of women, children, and families. Originally enacted in 1935,...

Where Medicaid Spending Falls Short of Need

CMS proposes rule aimed at limiting Medicaid state-directed payments

The Trump administration has proposed a "sweeping crackdown" on Medicaid payments that it says have significantly inflated costs in the program.

Families caring for disabled relatives face unthinkable choices as Medicaid cuts loom

Melissa Gonce used to cry when her son came home from his day program soaked in urine, dehydrated and distressed. Jason, 28, is nonverbal and profoundly disabled, with significa...

CMS to withhold $1.3B in Medicaid funds from California, puts state officials on notice about fraud

Just hours after the Trump administration announced action against fraud in the hospice and home health spaces, Vice President JD Vance put state regulators on notice that the feds...

Medicaid Funding Cuts Hit Latino Healthcare the Hardest

Federal policies put 4 million Latinos among 14 million Americans expected to lose coverage in the next 10 years.

Long-Standing State-Based Efforts to Combat Fraud Against Medicaid Continue to Improve

CMS Administrator Dr. Oz has been on a veritable press tour trumpeting the supposed rampant fraud in Medicaid and other government programs, which nationally he claims could add up...

Which Parents Will be Impacted by Medicaid Work Reporting Mandate?

A new work reporting requirement for adults in Medicaid is one of the most widely publicized provisions in the Trump budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed last year and accoun...