Trump says he’s going after Medicaid fraud, but is mostly focusing on blue states • Stateline The Trump administration is taking aim at what it calls rampant fraud in state Medicaid programs. But by focusing almost exclusively on Democratic-led states, it has handed ammunition to critics who s...

Trump says he’s going after Medicaid fraud, but is mostly focusing on blue states stateline.org/2026/04/16/t...

Julie from Austin, Texas Medicaid story of how Medicaid helped her when she was pregnant and uninsured & led to her nurse job

Medicaid was crucial to give Julie the maternal health support she needed while she was pregnant and uninsured, and led to her career as a maternity care and public health nurse.

Share your story! action.momsrising.org/survey/medicaid-story/ #HealthCareNotTrumpsWar #MomSky

Medicaid expansion boosted access to opioid addiction treatment medication, study says • Stateline In the eight states that expanded Medicaid after 2018, the number of people receiving prescriptions for the opioid addiction treatment medication buprenorphine increased dramatically, according to a p...

Medicaid expansion boosted access to opioid addiction treatment medication, study says stateline.org/2026/04/10/m...

AP Exclusive: Trump administration admits a glaring error in its New York health fraud accusations President Donald Trump's administration has admitted to a major error in data used to justify a federal fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program.

In a rare occurrence, a Trump administration official admits to making a HUGE mistake in allegations of fraud in New York home health care.

Trump administration admits a glaring error in its accusations about New York health care fraud President Donald Trump's administration has admitted to a major error in data used to justify a federal fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program.

New: The Trump administration acknowledged it made a major error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program.

“These numbers could have been cleared up in a phone call, so it’s really slapdash,” one analyst said.
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Trump’s math behind Medicaid fraud claims doesn’t add up—literally An administration official admitted their estimate of New Yorkers receiving home care was off by more than 4.5 million people.

Trump’s math behind Medicaid fraud claims doesn’t add up—literally www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Herd immunity is waning, and that is putting babies at risk.

AP Exclusive: Trump administration admits a glaring error in its New York health fraud accusations President Donald Trump's administration has admitted to a major error in data used to justify a federal fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program.

The Trump Admin attack on Medicaid fraud primarily in blue states is nothing more than an effort to distract voters from Medicaid cuts and attack their political enemies.

The math Dr. Oz used in his official letter to NY was such garbage even he had to admit it.

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Medicaid: 50-State Snapshots Click on a state below to view its fact sheet. National Snapshot Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Ma...

Check out how Medicaid helps people in your state. #MedicaidAwarenessMonth
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Understanding Medicaid Home Care Amid CMS Focus on Potential Fraud and Abuse | KFF This issue brief describes how Medicaid home care operates—including who is eligible and the systems in place to promote program integrity in its delivery—and the challenges of using new CMS data to i...

Did you know that Medicaid spending on home care is growing because states are choosing to offer it as an alternative to institutional care in nursing facilities?
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Every month is #MedicaidAwarenessMonth @GeorgetownCCF. Our series of fact sheets explains how Medicaid helps children, pregnant women, caregivers, people with disabilities, seniors, and families who otherwise could not afford health care.

What The Pitt Gets Right about Health Policy Foreshadowing the deadly consequences of Trump's Medicaid policies

New with @pamherd.bsky.social: While never mentioning Trump or political parties, the show’s second season offers an almost-real time commentary on how policy changes are affecting health.
Lets take one particular example of Medicaid coverage loss. 🧵
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Federal $ cuts and policy mandates put states in a bind as they struggle to meet the nutrition needs of children and families.

Hats off to #ThePitt for depicting an all too common reason why there are uninsured kids in the U.S.

Most uninsured kids are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP but they’ve lost coverage due to red tape barriers.

The nation’s progress on this very issue is now at grave risk.

It’s not just Ms. Rachel.

The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention.

Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

Which Parents Will be Impacted by Medicaid Work Reporting Mandate? A new work reporting requirement for adults in Medicaid is one of the most widely publicized provisions in the Trump budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed last year and accounts for a great deal ...

My latest blog with Adriana Kohler is here for on parents and Medicaid work requirements:

The bottom line - the vast majority of parents are exempt including anyone with a child under 14.

But there is a lack of awareness — and of course there are complexities.

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Concerns over a Nebraska hospital show how a $50B rural health fund is coming up short A rural Nebraska family’s lifeline hospital now sits at the center of a national fight over Medicaid cuts.

Congress said the Rural Health Transformation Fund would offset impact of Medicaid cuts on rural hospitals. It's falling short of that promise.

Cuts foisted on states by the One Big Beautiful Bill are beginning to cause harsh consequences for people covered by Medicaid. Leaders in Congress vowed the most vulnerable would be protected from Medicaid cuts. @kffhealthnews.org tells a different story and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Graph comparing per-enrollee spending growth for employer sponsored insurance, Medicare and Medicaid.

They also show that #Medicaid per-enrollee growth was relatively flat over the 2010-2024 period and 27% lower than projected, a much greater reduction than for both Medicare and employer-sponsored insurance. Refutes the false claims that Medicaid spending is somehow out-of-control (2/2)

States say ICE pulled Medicaid data despite court order • Missouri Independent A coalition of 22 states told a federal court that the Trump administration appears to have violated a court order that limited the types of health data that could be shared with U.S. Immigration and ...

States say ICE pulled Medicaid data despite court order missouriindependent.com/2026/03/31/r...

A PSA that I’ll keep sending due to misinformation and confusion.

Medicaid work requirements are not in effect yet.

Even when they are all parents with children under 14 are EXEMPT.

Spread the word.

Not to mention setting millions of Americans on a path to becoming uninsured which means they are entirely knocked out of a health system for which having insurance is the price of admission.

The Basic Math Error in Dr. Oz’s Fraud Letter - Fiscal Policy Institute With billions of dollars and the lives of vulnerable New Yorkers at stake, this administration can’t even add correctly.

Must read on how Dr Oz's estimate of alleged Medicaid fraud in NY is likely vastly overstated due to a simple math error.

Scary that this is where the federal agency that runs a great deal of the US health care system is at.

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Yes! Go @hbraum.bsky.social and Kansas Action for Children!

Graph showing lower health care spending between 2010-2024 compared to original projections.

H/T to @davidmwessel.bsky.social for flagging new @brookings.edu research from @davidmcutler.bsky.social & Lev Klarnet. One of the goals of the ACA was to help slow growth in health care costs systemwide. They find lower-than-projected costs between 2010-2024 (1/2): www.brookings.edu/articles/has...

This speaks to the folly of HR1 last year which made historic cuts of nearly $1 trillion to Medicaid the leanest part of our health care system while doing nothing to address the high costs of health care.

Kansas prepares to update Children’s Health Insurance Program eligibility stuck in 2008  • Kansas Reflector Kansas is the only state where eligibility for the Children's Health Insurance Program is tied to income levels from 2008

Inflation has gone up, but income eligibility levels for the Children’s Health Insurance Program in Kansas are stuck in 2008. @heatherbraun.bsky.social is trying to change that.

RFK Jr.’s Very Bad Week - KFF Health News HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had another tough week. In addition to Kennedy having rotator cuff surgery, the nomination of his ally to become surgeon general is teetering, the controversial hea...

Medicaid program integrity expert Andy Schneider and @julierovner.bsky.social discuss why successful efforts to combat fraud in Medicaid require federal-state cooperation and should not be politicized on the What the Health podcast.

@nhelp.bsky.social and @flhealthjustice.bsky.social have filed suit against the state of Florida on behalf of kids who are uninsured because Governor DeSantis has refused to implement the CHIP expansion that the legislature passed unanimously two years ago.

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Florida's plan to impose a Medicaid work requirement would punish working parents who met the 80-hour requirement by pushing them over the Medicaid income eligibility level, leading to more uninsured parents. Parents need health coverage to stay healthy and care for their kids.