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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its much-anticipated interim final rule with comment period (IFC) on June 1, 2026, providing guidance to states as to how they must implement new burdensome work reporting requirements in…
When Congress debated and ultimately passed H.R. 1 last year, health advocates warned the results would be deadly. Cutting $1 trillion from the health care system — with the majority of it coming from…
The 2025 budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) imposes major new federal restrictions on retroactive coverage, a critical aspect of Medicaid coverage that protects people from financial hardship while they apply for Medicaid. Click the…
On Friday, May 1, Nebraska will become the first state to subject Medicaid enrollees to work reporting requirements — eight months before states are required to do so under the Republicans’ 2025 big budget bill (H.R. 1). Work reporting requirements…
Consumers First, an alliance that brings together the interests of consumers, employers, labor unions, and primary care clinicians working to realign and improve the fundamental economic incentives and design of our health care system,…
Families USA appreciates the opportunity to provide input to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the request for information (RFI) regarding potential regulatory or programmatic changes that the agency…
Families USA submitted comments to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services strongly urging the state to withdraw its proposed Sustainable Coverage Demonstration and retain retroactive Medicaid coverage to the maximum extent allowable…
The 2025 budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) imposes major new restrictions on states’ ability to generate Medicaid provider tax revenue, including by narrowing states’ ability to obtain so-called “uniformity waivers.” On February 2, 2026,…
Families USA submitted a statement for the record for the March 17 Energy and Commerce Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee hearing “Protecting Patients and Safeguarding Taxpayer Dollars: The Role of CMS in Combatting Medicare and…
Families USA, on behalf of the Consumers First steering committee, submitted comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed Transparency in Coverage (TiC) rule. Consumers First seeks to ensure the nation’s health…