As my colleague Tom Barker wrote last week, the second emergency COVID-19 supplemental bill (officially referred to as the Families First Coronavirus Response Act), signed by the President on March 18 ...

Amid calls to extend the temporary federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) increase, the Congressional Research Service has released a report examining the various proposals that would affect the ...

LoSasso is professor and chair of the Economics Department at DePaul University. If there is any federal program begging for reform, it’s Medicaid. In 2023, total spending on the program exceeded $870 ...

The National Governors Association is calling for Senate leaders to extend the Medicaid funding boost states were given under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In a Tuesday letter to key ...

FMAP VOTE HINGES ON ONE R VOTE — A Senate cloture vote is likely at about 10:40 a.m. today on the $26.1 billion state aid bill which includes extended FMAP funding. It comes down to a single ...

BREAKING – CMS will release a new report this morning saying that reforms in the Democratic health care law “will generate billions of dollars in savings for Medicare and strengthen the care Medicare ...