[Read Andy Schneider’s most recent blog about fraud against Medicaid: The Improper Use of Improper Payments.] As my colleague Edwin Park has explained, capping federal Medicaid payments to st…| Center For Children and Families
As of June 2024, a paltry 4,231 Georgians were enrolled in Georgia’s section 1115 Medicaid waiver, according to reports from the state recently posted by federal CMS. Data from the newly released r…| Center For Children and Families
Medicaid’s complex federal-state financing structure has long created perverse incentives that discourage efficient care. Key to the problem is the federal government’s uncapped reimbursement of state Medicaid expenditures, which encourages states to artificially inflate their Medicaid spending. Such schemes have significantly increased over the past several years and they likely add tens of billions in generally low-value Medicaid spending each year.| Mercatus Center
Our updated explainer provides an overview of comprehensive managed care, the most common way states deliver Medicaid services to enrollees, as well as new federal rules that strengthen managed care access standards.| KFF
