Senate committee to vote on Dr. Oz’s nomination to run Medicare and Medicaid services
The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote late this afternoon on whether to advance President Donald Trump's pick and lead Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to the Senate confirmation vote. The vote follows two hearings by a committee that investigated OZ on plans for a federal healthcare program, his […]
Medicare, Medicaid Cuts Would Force Half of Patients to Delay Care: Poll – Newsweek
Half of Medicare and Medicaid people will need to delay or skip health care if the program is facing massive cuts based on the Republican House budget. The vote of 1,000 adults in the US found that over 60% of Americans are worried about cutting Medicare and Medicaid under the new budget. Why is it […]
Chuck Schumer Falsely Claims Elon Musk Wants To Eliminate Social Security and Medicare
Claim: Senator Chuck Schumer and Bloomberg News claimed that Elon Musk called for the elimination or reduction of Social Security and Medicare. Verdict: False. Musk did not seek social security or exclusion from Medicare. He also did not seek to cut profits. Musk's comments referenced waste and fraud in eligibility spending rather than abolishing these […]
White House says Trump won't cut Social Security, Medicare after Musk remarks
The White House on Tuesday argued that President Trump would not cut Social Security or Medicare after comments from tech billionaire Elon Musk and the need to look into the traction that eligibility spending has been obtained. Musk, a top Trump advisor, led an effort to overhaul the federal workforce and appeared on Monday on […]
Murphy fears more Medicare pay cuts will kill private practice
Rep. Greg Murphy (RN.C.) worries that if he does nothing to curb cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, doctors will not be able to afford to implement their personal practices. “We're in the crucible. If we don't fight these cuts here, if we can't get rid of them, if we don't reverse them, we don't […]
Lake Charles physician, wife agree to pay $450K for defrauding Medicare program – KPLC
Lake Charles, La. (KPLC) – The US lawyers' firm announces Lake Charles' doctors, and his wife agrees to pay $450,000 for inappropriate claims for the “P-Stim” device. Dr. Henry Goolsby, also known as Trip Goolsby, Lake Charles' wife and co-founder Patricia Lenae Goolsby, and its clinic, Infinite Health Integrative Medicine Clinic, have reached a settlement […]
UnitedHealth wins ruling over $2B in alleged Medicare Advantage overpayments – Minnesota Reformer
The Department of Justice's longtime court battle forced United Health Group to repay billions of dollars with overpayments of Medicare Advantage, and hit a big set-off Monday when Special Masters determined the government could not prove the case. In the United Health discovery, Special Master Suzanne Segal found that DOJ had not presented any evidence […]
Medicare and Medicaid agency faces compromised functions and disruption from Trump’s firings – STAT
Federal agencies that oversee Medicare, Medicaid and other major healthcare programs face employee layoffs, flag morale, disrupt the message, and hopes for additional disruption undermine the monitoring and management of key programs that fund the care of half of Americans. Leaders of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have yet to formally receive a […]
Doctors Push Back Against Looming Loss of Medicare Telehealth for Millions – Newsweek
The imminent loss of telehealth coverage for millions of Medicare recipients has sparked a fierce backlash for both doctors and patients as new change.org petitions seek to recover compensation after the March 31 expiration date. Why is it important? Over 66 million Americans rely on Medicare for health insurance every year. That includes many rural […]
Medicare Advantage enrollment growth slows drastically – STAT
The number of people enrolled in the private Medicare Advantage plan increased by just 3.1% from 2024 to 2025. It's one of the slowest growth in the program, far below forecasts from the federal government and Wall Street. More than 34.4 million elderly people, disabled people and people with disabilities, as of February 1, were […]