The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is testing two new financial models designed to achieve improved quality and decreased costs through better coordination of care for Medicare and ...

Medicaid reform can save vulnerable Americans — and money — despite the usual criticisms. Over the past 60 years, Medicaid has morphed from a targeted safety net for America’s most vulnerable citizens ...

Almost a third of Fayette County's residents and more than half its children and youth depend on Medicaid for health coverage ...

Occasionally, I’m reminded that I was an Economics major in college and not a historian. I was enticed into choosing economics by the use of simple graphs in Economics 101. On the first day of class, ...

A new study led by researchers at the Department of Population Medicine–Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston Medical Center, and Boston University School of Public Health finds that how ...

Nina Owcharenko Schaefer is well known as a champion of patient choice and robust competition in America’s health insurance markets. Medicaid is in need of reform. Policymakers should make sure that ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) announced this week that the commonwealth will transition to a simple traditional Medicaid expansion plan. The plan replaces former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s (R) ...

Doctors are too often using the wrong codes to bill Medicare and Medicaid for their services, and that’s costing the government billions of dollars. The codes determine how much the government ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sidestepped a question about whether he supported states giving illegal migrants taxpayer-funded health insurance at a press conference Wednesday. The House-passed ...

Republicans in Congress are resurfacing an old idea − requiring many adults on Medicaid to get a job so they can keep their health insurance. The work requirement is one of several ways the GOP is ...