For the past four years, CMS has been dedicated to strengthening Medicaid and CHIP by helping eligible people more easily enroll and keep their coverage; expanding Medicaid to more Americans; ...

Medicaid long-term care is a set of Medicaid programs that help eligible older adults pay for ongoing medical and personal care, such as nursing home care, … ...

If you’re over 65, you qualify for Medicare, a federally funded program that also covers those under 65 with certain disabilities. Medicaid is a state-administered federal health insurance program for ...

“People tend to use the terms interchangeably, but they are not at all the same,” says Josh Hodges, the chief customer officer at the National Council on Aging. Unlike Medicare, which is funded by the ...

Using section 1115 waivers, states can test different approaches to managing their Medicaid programs, in a bid to give states flexibility to improve the safety-net programs. The CMS has previously ...

As Medicaid programs continue to grow in size, cost, and complexity, program integrity can no longer function as a standalone role—it must be built into the fabric of how programs operate daily.