Columbus healthcare provider sentenced for Medicaid fraud – NBC4 WCMH-TV

(Photo: MGN Online) COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The owner of a home health care service has been convicted of making false claims to the state Medicaid program. Doreesa Irby, owner of Loving Hearts LLC in Columbus, was sentenced Thursday to five years probation, a 10-month suspended jail sentence and to pay $13,261.06 in restitution, according […]

Health insurer Elevance cautious on Medicaid business this year – Yahoo Finance

By Shriparna Roy and Amina Niasse (Reuters) – Insurer Elevance Health Inc said it expects claims from members enrolled in government-sponsored Medicaid plans to rise in the second half and that health care costs will remain high this year, sending its shares down about 7 percent on Wednesday. Shares of rival insurers that offer Medicaid […]

Can a Medicaid plan that requires work succeed? First year of Georgia experiment is not promising – Hindustan Times

ATLANTA — Georgia officials expect their new Medicaid plan, currently the only one in the nation with work requirements, will provide health insurance to 25,000 low-income people and potentially tens of thousands more. Can a work-requirement Medicaid plan succeed? First year of Georgia experiment not promising {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} But a year after its […]