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New Deal legislation that created the Social Security program as well as insurance against unemployment
’s formal coverage framework recognizes vacuum erection devices (VEDs, HCPCS L7900) as prosthetic devices and says any coverage must meet Medicare’s benefit-category and “reasonable and necessary” cri...
Auditors and Congress draw a clear legal and operational line between improper payments—mistakes, administrative errors, or beneficiary reporting failures—and criminal fraud, which requires knowing mi...
’s immediate, legally recognized avenues to contest the decision include requesting an administrative hearing under section 1904 of the , submitting a corrective action plan to stave off withholding, ...
A physician’s certification that a patient is “chronically ill” for purposes must state that a licensed health care practitioner has certified—within the required timeframe—that the individual meets t...
Undocumented immigrants are excluded from full federal Medicaid and Medicare benefits but retain access to for treatment of emergency medical conditions and labor, and many states extend through state...
Congress did not enact federal laws in 2023 that . Legislative proposals and agency rulemaking in 2023 and 2024 sought to change eligibility definitions or offer state options, but none of those measu...
Undocumented immigrants who possess Social Security numbers or Social Security cards face , because most Social Security Act and mean-tested programs restrict access to citizens and specifically defin...
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic response to the Great Depression, the , combined large-scale federal relief, public works, and regulatory reforms to stabilize banks, provide jobs, and reshape the rel...