medicaid Archives - Ponca City Now

Drummond urges Congress to help states fight Medicaid fraud

Thursday, August 6 by Ponca City Now

OKLAHOMA CITY– Attorney General Gentner Drummond is urging the U.S. House and Senate to pass two pieces of legislation that would expand the ability of states to investigate and prosecute Medicaid recipient fraud. He and 16 attorneys general sent a letter to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Finance about... Read More.

Medicaid cuts could further strain rural health care in Oklahoma

Wednesday, July 15 by AP

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma State Medical Association is raising concerns about the long-term impact of Medicaid funding reductions, saying cuts to health care programs could threaten access to care across the state, particularly in rural communities. Association leaders say thousands of children have already lost coverage and warn deeper impacts are still ahead. Thousands of Children... Read More.

Medicaid funding is resuming for Planned Parenthood after being cut off for most of a year

Wednesday, July 8 by AP

Pro-abortion and anti-abortion protestors rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, during the March for Life. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers are resuming billing Medicaid for services other than abortion after being cut off for most of a year. The defunding, which was mandated in... Read More.

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Oklahoma AG sues Tulsa neuropathy clinic over $880K Medicaid fraud

Friday, April 3 by News 6

TULSA, Okla. - Oklahoma’s Attorney General has filed a lawsuit accusing a Tulsa-based neuropathy clinic of defrauding Medicaid out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. News On 6’s MaKayla Glenn investigated what led up to the lawsuit, spoke with patients and the clinic’s owner, and visited the facility. What is the lawsuit about? The lawsuit filed by... Read More.

Gov. Stitt asks voters to roll back Medicaid increases over spiraling costs

Wednesday, February 4 by News 6

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has asked the State Legislature to forward a referendum to voters that could roll back the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. A state question expanded Medicaid in 2021, with voter approval that came in a close vote. The Oklahoma... Read More.

Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that

Wednesday, December 24 by AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died, according to a new report from the independent watchdog for the Department of Health and Human Services. But the department’s Office of Inspector General said... Read More.

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Pfizer agrees to lower prescription drug costs for Medicaid in deal with Trump

Thursday, October 2 by AP

WASHINGTON - Pfizer has agreed to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Medicaid under a deal struck with the Trump administration, President Donald Trump said Tuesday as he promised similar deals with other drugmakers under the threat of tariffs. Trump made the announcement at the White House alongside Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla just hours ahead of... Read More.

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE

Monday, July 21 by AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press. The information will give... Read More.

Medicare & Medicaid Service suffers data breach

Wednesday, July 2 by News 9

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is notifying Medicare beneficiaries whose personal information may have been involved in a data incident affecting Medicare.gov accounts. CMS identified suspicious activity related to the unauthorized creation of certain beneficiary online accounts using personal information obtained from unknown external sources. CMS takes this situation... Read More.

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States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules

Friday, June 27 by AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country’s biggest abortion provider. The 6-3 opinion comes in a case that wasn’t directly about abortion. It’s... Read More.

White House: Taxpayers spent $56 billion on improper Medicaid claims

Thursday, June 19 by Washington TCS

WASHINGTON (The Center Square) — Taxpayers spent $56 billion on Medicaid last year for able-bodied adults abusing the program, according to a new report released by the White House Tuesday. The report claims that 44% of able-bodied Medicaid recipients without children worked less than 20 hours a week in 2024, using 11% of the government’s annual... Read More.

House GOP Passes Budget Resolution, Raising Questions About Medicaid Cuts

Tuesday, March 4 by News 9

WASHINGTON, D.C. -The Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a budget resolution that unlocked the process of reconciliation that they intend to use to implement President Donald Trump’s America First legislative agenda. As part of the process, House GOP leaders have agreed that the House Energy and Commerce Committee will... Read More.