The bipartisan Michigan Board of State Canvassers approved petition signatures collected by Michiganders for Money Out of Politics in a 3-1 vote July 24. The ballot measure would limit political donations …
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a final rule to update the Medicare fee-for-service prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient psychiatric facilities …
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) recently changed the process for documenting immunizations and the forms that should be used. Effective immediately, providers should discontinue use of the previous Michigan-specific Vaccine Information …
The CMS recently released a final rule to update the Medicare fee-for-service PPS for skilled nursing facilities for fiscal year (FY) 2027.
Key provisions include …
The MDHHS recently notified stakeholders that some sexual assault evidence kits with barcode numbers beginning with “MI26” are missing the Authorization for …
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) submission deadline for the CMS Quality Reporting Programs is …
Registration is open for the 2026 MHA Communications Retreat, taking place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 21 at the MSU Federal Credit Union Headquarters Building 2 in East Lansing. The retreat will bring …
Rural residents face unique challenges when it comes to accessing behavioral healthcare services. In response to this, Michigan hospitals are finding innovative ways to remove barriers and help those …
Why Medicaid is U.S. Healthcare’s Biggest Opportunity
“Medicaid, then as now, was the understudy to Medicare. It was understandable: per capita costs for caring for seniors were three times those in Medicaid, and aging was the tsunami health officials saw. In the 60-years since, Medicare has become the arbiter for federal reimbursement in every setting where seniors received services. It has enabled hospitals and specialty care to expand and limited preventive and primary care to the bare minimum. And its version of managed care, Medicare Advantage plans, now enroll over half its 70 million enrollees. It’s ridden on the back of federal policy, while states have been left to fend for themselves in Medicaid. But that’s changing. …
Results from Medicare’s cost containment efforts—accountable care organizations, alternative-payment models, value-based purchasing, price transparency et al—have been mixed. By contrast, Medicaid initiatives in states ranging from payment integrity programs to changes in state directed payment policies have produced significant savings necessary to surviving the $1 trillion, 10-year cut to federal Medicaid funding in the Big Beautiful Bill.
Medicaid is the health system’s most important platform for applying evidence to care cost-effectively from cradle to grave.”
The bipartisan Michigan Board of State Canvassers approved petition signatures collected by Michiganders for Money Out of Politics in a 3-1 vote July 24. The ballot measure would limit political donations …
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