Texas AG Sues Biden Administration Over ‘Power Grab’ to Rescind Healthcare Funding
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday announced he filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its decision to rescind a Medicaid waiver extension that would provide billions of dollars to state hospitals.
When federal officials in April rescinded the extension, they said Texas can re-apply when the waiver extension expires in 2022. Liz Richter, the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the Trump administration “did not go through the full federal rulemaking process” and then rescinded the waiver.
Describing President Joe Biden’s decision as a “power grab,” Paxton said on Friday that the bid to stip Texas’s 1115 Medicaid waiver extension would prevent “stable funding for providers of healthcare for children, people with disabilities, and the elderly.”
KCUR Rev. Vernon Howard, president of the Kansas City chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, urged Missouri Medicaid expansion supporters to continue to fight.
Medicaid expansion supporters say Republicans refusal to implement the constitutional amendment will result in delays of health care for Missourians in need.
A day after Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declined to implement a voter approved constitutional amendment to expand the state’s public health insurance program, myriad supporters of the plan vowed to keep up the fight.
In Kansas City and across the state, health care advocacy groups gathered to express support for expanding Medicaid, which had been slated to begin on July 1 and provide health care coverage to an additional 271,000 Missouri residents.
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Congress is mulling changes to Medicare Advantage that would speed up the prior authorization process and mandate more transparency when health plans deny provider requests. The thinking behind the bill is that insurers sometimes use tactics that rein in healthcare costs, but also affect the level of care that providers are able to give.
Health insurers, including those that offer Medicare Advantage plans, require providers to obtain prior authorization for certain medical treatments or tests before they can provide care to their patients. Insurers claim that prior authorization can play a role in ensuring people receive clinically appropriate treatments and help control the cost of care.
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Kaiser Permanente and Mayo Clinic are investing $100 million to scale in-home care startup Medically Home.
The investment comes as doctors and hospitals embrace remote care amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Investor interest in a crop of companies helping hospitals provide in-home care is growing.
Providing healthcare in people s homes is moving beyond simple illnesses and primary care.
Now, hospitals are increasingly interested delivering in-home care for seriously ill patients with heart failure , lung disease, pneumonia, and other complex conditions.
Major health systems Kaiser Permanente and Mayo Clinic signaled that shift on Thursday when they announced that they are jointly investing $100 million in Medically Home, a startup that partners with