Across the nation, state officials are raising Medicaid eligibility standards and cutting services in a desperate effort to close budget gaps. Here is a report from Oklahoma, where officials say they have no choice but to cut Medicaid funding...

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has settled a lawsuit over a decision by Medicare not to cover a medication for an eye disease that can lead to blindness. More . . .

A former head of Medicare and Medicaid says that covering the nation's 41 million uninsured would cost only a small fraction of the $1.6 trillion that will be spent on health care this year, and would result in unexpected savings...

The person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of an institutionalized Medicaid recipient failed in her role because she did not respect the efforts that the recipient and his wife had made to protect their small savings from...

Disabled recipients of Medicaid home care services are much happier under an experimental program that allows them to hire the helpers themselves, a new study concludes. More . . .

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that Medicare beneficiaries will now be able to receive coverage of positron emission tomography (PET) to diagnose thyroid cancer and potential cardiac diseases. At the same time, CMS will...

Led by Connecticut and Minnesota, a growing number of cash-strapped states are considering making it more difficult for older Americans to transfer assets in order to gain Medicaid coverage of nursing home care. More . . .

An ElderLawAnswers law firm has won an important legal victory in preventing an Indiana nursing home from forcing a 98-year-old Medicaid resident to move to a part of the facility set aside for patients whose care is funded by Medicaid.

Consumers in eight states are now able to compare'“for the first time--the quality of care provided by home health care agencies in their state. More . . .