What is Medicaid Home Care (HCBS)?
This issue brief provides an overview of what Medicaid home care (also known as “home- and community-based services” or HCBS) is, who is covered, and what services were available in 2024.
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Payment Rates for Medicaid Home Care: States’ Responses to Workforce Challenges
This issue brief describes states’ ongoing efforts to respond to shortages of home care workers and how they pay these workers, finding that increased payment rates are a key component of states’ efforts to address workforce shortages.
Ono Pharma Drug Acquired in $2.4B Deal Wins FDA Approval for Treating Rare Type of Tumor
Romvimza, a drug for treating tenosynovial giant cell tumor, was initially developed by Deciphera Pharmaceuticals. Last year, Ono Pharmaceutical acquired Deciphera to build up its oncology portfolio and expand its business prospects in the U.S. and Europe. The post Ono Pharma Drug Acquired in $2.4B Deal Wins FDA Approval for Treating Rare Type of Tumor…
5 Key Facts About Medicaid Work Requirements
Work requirements in Medicaid have resurfaced as part of a broader legislative package of potential changes to Medicaid designed to significantly reduce federal Medicaid spending. This brief highlights five key facts about Medicaid work requirements, including the share of Medicaid enrollees who currently work, what research shows about the impact of work requirements, and the…
Will the Entire NIH be Shut Down?
If you rely on federal grants as your sole means of support, you’re tying your destiny to forces outside your control. There are other roads to success in health and medical research. By pursuing them, you might gain more freedom, fewer administrative hurdles, and the chance to save lives faster. The post Will the Entire…
The Overlooked Pillar of Clinical Care: Physical Therapists
Despite their measurable clinical outcomes and contributions to patient well-being, they often face a dismissive perception as mere providers of ice bags and stretch bands. However, an economic crisis is threatening this vital profession, and the blame extends beyond insurance payors. The post The Overlooked Pillar of Clinical Care: Physical Therapists appeared first on MedCity…
10 Things to Know About Medicaid
At the start of 2025, many issues are at play that will affect Medicaid coverage, financing, and access to care. While Medicaid was not discussed much on the campaign trail, Congress may consider big changes as part of tax and spending debates and the Trump administration may make changes to Medicaid through executive actions. Amid…
Iowa Medicaid Sends $4M Bills to Two Families Grieving Deaths of Loved Ones With Disabilities
Collection agents for the state of Iowa have sent letters seeking millions of dollars from the estates of at least two people with disabilities who died after spending most of their lives in a state institution. The amounts represent what Medicaid spent covering the residents’ care when they lived at the Glenwood Resource Center, a…
Pain Clinics Made Millions From ‘Unnecessary’ Injections Into ‘Human Pin Cushions’
McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — Each month, Michelle Shaw went to a pain clinic to get the shots that made her back feel worse — so she could get the pills that made her back feel better. Shaw, 56, who has been dependent on opioid painkillers since she injured her back in a fall a decade ago,…
Disruption For the Sake of Disruption Is Not Innovation
By MIKE MAGEE “The technological leaps of the 1900s — microelectronics, antibiotics, chemotherapy, liquid-fueled rockets, Earth-observing satellites, lasers, LED lights, disease-resistant seeds and so forth — derived from science. But these technologies also spent years being improved, tweaked, recombined and modified to make them achieve the scale and impact necessary for innovations.” Jon Gertner, author of “The Idea…