Medicare News Roundup

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made a series of announcements about Medicare: 1. Payment rates for home health services will increase by 3.3 percent for 2007. The acting administrator for CMS said this increase will “reward home health agencies who continue to report quality data and also provides beneficiaries with access [...]

Texas Register Updates

On behalf of the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has adopted an amendment to §9.178 in Chapter 9, Subchapter D, which restores text inadvertently replaced with incorrect text during previous adoption of an amendment. For more information, see the relevant section of the Texas Register. [...]

Medicaid News Roundup

In an effort to recoup money paid in Medicaid services, Tennessee’s Medicaid program will increase its efforts to go after beneficiaries’ estates. (Kaiser Network) As more retiring baby boomers start receiving Medicaid services, I suspect more states will follow Tennessee’s lead. In other Medicaid news, a radio program called Marketplace Morning Report examined Missouri’s Medicaid [...]

Automatic Medicaid Enrollment of U.S.-Born Babies of Illegal Aliens Ends

Last week, President George W. Bush announced that U.S.-born babies of illegal aliens no longer will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. Under the new policy, which took effect this past July, illegal aliens will be required to prove their baby’s citizenship. (Kaiser Network) Leslie Norwalk, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, [...]

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