Trump’s Medicaid Work Rules Hit States With Costs and Bureaucracy

From Forbes —  News that the Trump administration won’t back down from an effort to require Medicaid patients to work means states considering them should brace for higher administrative expenses. Kentucky’s Medicaid administration costs jumped more than 40% after...

States with the best retirement funding

From USA Today — 24/7 Wall Street reviewed per-capita state government funding expenditure figures from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 State and Local Government Expenditures data. State governments spent close to $39 billion, or about $120 per capita, on...

CMS telemedicine expansion could lead to cuts in Medicare base rate

From Politico’s Morning Health — TELEMEDICINE PROPOSAL WILL COST MONEY: A new CMS proposal to expand Medicare payments for virtual consultations foresees the telemedicine expansion as an additional expense that will be offset by cuts in the base rate paid to...