Medicaid

The trial in a class-action lawsuit alleging Tennessee took too long to decide whether individuals are eligible to be on Medicaid started on Tuesday (Oct. 9) -- four years after the case was filed.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday (Oct. 2) again defended the Trump administration’s backing of Medicaid work requirements and criticized Medicare for All proposals for endangering the program at the expense of vulnerable seniors at the Atlantic’s annual ideas festival in Washington.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma is slated to forcefully defend the Trump administration's commitment to Medicaid work requirements in a speech Thursday (Sept. 27) at a Medicaid industry conference, according to an advance copy of her remarks. Verma is expected to defend Arkansas' recently enacted work-requirement program despite early data showing low compliance rates, large coverage losses and low beneficiary familiarity with the program.

The Trump administration has proposed a rule that would allow the government to deny green cards for immigrants who receive Medicare Part D low-income subsidies or Medicaid, but, in a departure from leaked drafts, the proposal wouldn’t target immigrants who receive Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Six GOP-led states doubled down Friday (Sept. 21) on an effort to block the IRS from collecting an Obamacare tax that Medicaid plans are required to pay Oct. 1.

Several congressional Medicaid advisers said Thursday (Sept. 13) they’re enthusiastic about the idea of giving states a grace period before covering newly approved drugs and lifting the Medicaid rebate cap.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma said Monday (Sept. 17) that it is too early to draw conclusions about Arkansas’ newly enacted Medicaid work requirements, after more than 4,000 beneficiaries lost coverage for failing to show they met the requirements in the program’s first three months.

Six states engaged in litigation over an Obamacare tax on Medicaid plans filed papers this week asking a Texas federal judge to block the IRS from collecting that tax on Oct. 1.

Arkansas has kicked 4,353 people off Medicaid for not complying with the state’s new work requirements -- nearly four times more than the number of beneficiaries who successfully reported to the state that they satisfied the new rules.