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Donald Trump’s 2024–25 public positions and administration actions focused heavily on reshaping Medicare through Medicare Advantage policy shifts, drug-pricing reversals and negotiation activity, and ...
Available reporting shows mixed impacts of Trump-era and Trump administration policies on nurses: some actions expanded scope or pay-equity reviews for advanced practice nurses (potentially increasing...
The available analyses show : emergency Medicaid for noncitizens is reported as under 1% of Medicaid and roughly $27 billion from FY2017–2023, while some partisan accounts claim more than $16.2 billio...
The Affordable Care Act reworked how Medicare Advantage (MA) benchmarks and rebates are calculated, generally lowering payments to plans in higher-spending counties and reducing the share of benchmark...
The Trump administration increased Medicare Advantage (MA) payments and rolled back or paused several Biden-era quality and oversight measures, actions that critics say boost plan revenue and could ac...
President Trump’s 2024-era proposals and administration actions largely push Medicare toward more privatization and insurer-friendly rules while promising not to “cut one penny” from benefits; key ini...
President Trump signed a 2019 executive order directing HHS to review Medicare rules that affect advanced practice nurses (APRN), nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) and gave the ...
(MA) settlements have exposed recurring corporate practices—retrospective chart reviews, third‑party coding vendors paid on contingency, post‑visit addenda, and systematic submission of additional dia...
Quality‑based rebate adjustments under the ACA increased financial rewards for high‑rated Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, enabling those plans to offer richer benefits or lower premiums and thereby mak...
Available reporting shows no clear, direct evidence that federal Medicare or Medicaid funding shifts between 2017–2021 systematically caused hospitals to cut or change hospital‑funded nurse residency ...
Medicare and Medicaid rule changes from 2017–2020 shifted payment incentives, documentation rules, and managed‑care oversight in ways that affected nurse reimbursement and care delivery: Medicare expa...
No credible evidence shows that hospitals or medical centers reported clinical use of a so-called “Med Bed” technology between 2020 and 2025. The term appears across three different streams: an academ...
Independent and alternative-media investigations of Democratic healthcare spending proposals converge on three consistent threads: they trace funding sources to a mix of payroll/tax changes and defici...
The 2025 Republican budget proposals prioritize cutting Medicare spending by targeting private practices and implementing administrative controls that proponents say reduce fraud and cost, while criti...