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Medicaid is a partnership program between states and the federal government to provide healthcare coverage for lower income individuals, people with disabilities, older people, and certain families with... more +

Alive and (Anti)Kicking: EKRA Prosecutions on the Rise in California with Multiple Recent Indictments

BakerHostetler on 8/19/2025

In the past few months, federal prosecutors in California have brought multiple indictments under the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) charging the owners of substance abuse treatment facilities and their...more

CMS Announces New Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration Demonstration Model

Epstein Becker & Green on 1/26/2024

On January 18th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new demonstration model called the Innovation in Behavioral Health (IBH) Model, which is designed to improve outcomes for adults with mental...more

What to Know Before Getting Back to the Business of Health Care: FY2023 Omnibus Spending Bill

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 1/6/2023

In late December, Congress passed and President Biden signed into law a $1.7 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through FY2023. This alert summarizes the notable health policies and...more

CMS Approves CalAIM proposal to transform California’s Medi-Cal

King & Spalding on 1/6/2022

On December 29, 2021, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) announced CMS’s approval of its California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) proposal. CalAIM’s launch on January 1, 2022 is part of a...more

Deadline is Approaching for Group Health Plan Service Agreement Updates

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/31/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: Recent changes to the federal rules governing confidentiality of substance use disorder (SUD) patient records may require updates to agreements between group health plans and their third-party vendors....more

Recent Developments in Massachusetts Health Policy

Mintz - ML Strategies on 10/26/2015

Building on the momentum of early October hearings on the state’s growing health care expenditures, the Health Policy Commission (HPC), the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, Governor Charlie Baker, and others spent...more

Health Care Update - July 2015 #3

Mintz - ML Strategies on 7/29/2015

ACA Repeal Votes Continue: As part of a rare Senate Sunday session to consider a bill to replenish the highway trust fund for six years, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) brought up an amendment to repeal the ACA—in...more

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