In January, during a congressional hearing on his way to becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got basic details wrong about Medicaid — a ...

Two senior agency veterans focused on policy and operations are working with DOGE to review the agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid, which provide health insurance for about 1 in 4 Americans ...

Now, a more conservative GOP caucus has again put a bull's-eye on Medicaid's budget, which has grown by at least $300 billion ...

The House's budget resolution seeks $2 trillion in federal savings. If the Senate adopts the resolution, lawmaker could target Medicaid savings.

Kennedy Jr. was grilled by senators over ideas for reforming Medicaid and Medicare on ... rather than a fee-based system." Medicare is health insurance for people who are at least 65 years ...

while Medicaid is a state-federal program that covers low-income people. When he first described Medicare, he seemed to ignore the half of the Medicare program that relies on private insurance ...

The CMS is essentially the federal government’s insurance provider. The agency sets payment rates for doctors, hospitals and insurers, while also overseeing Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A swirl of possible state and federal policy decisions could eject 771,000 Ohioans from Medicaid, a public health insurance ... no longer covers. For example, if the state ...

Managed-care and healthcare stocks were higher in a deeply negative market Monday, buoyed by comments made late Friday by President Trump in support of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

Medicare is the federal health insurance program in the United ... For dual-eligible beneficiaries, Medicare is typically the primary payer, while Medicaid covers costs that Medicare may not ...

Adam Colborn, JD, of AMCP, discussed how President Trump's rescission of several Biden-era executive orders may impact Medicaid and Medicare initiatives ... Access Model; and then there was ...

Medicaid, which turns 60 this year, was established in 1965 as amendments to Social Security by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The program was meant to provide health insurance to individuals and ...