Medicaid – California Globe

Ford’s 90-Minute Case Against Lombardo Doesn’t Survive Fact-Checking

September 4, 2026 12:33 pmSeptember 4, 2026 12:36 pm

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford sat down with Jon Ralston for a lengthy interview and treated the governor’s race like a grievance session. He declared grocery prices the nation’s highest, dismissed thousands of new jobs as work that “can’t sustain...

Arizona Lawmaker Calls For Federal Investigation Into Gov Hobbs Sunshine Case After AG Mayes Declines Charges

August 24, 2026 1:29 pmAugust 24, 2026 1:30 pm

An Arizona Republican lawmaker says he referred the Sunshine Residential Homes controversy involving Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs to federal authorities more than 90-days ago, calling for the Department of Justice and federal health officials to examine whether federal money was...

Nevada Doctor Charged in $95 Million Medicare Wound Care Fraud Scheme

August 7, 2026 11:29 amAugust 7, 2026 11:30 am

A Henderson physician has been charged in a sprawling $95 million scheme to defraud Medicare by billing for medically unnecessary amniotic wound allografts applied to elderly patients, including those in hospice care, federal prosecutors announced this week. On Tuesday, a...

Study: 62% of California’s Medicaid Expansion Enrollees Likely Ineligible, Costing Taxpayers Over $10 Billion

August 3, 2026 11:55 amAugust 3, 2026 12:02 pm

A new analysis (see below) from the Paragon Health Institute finds that nearly half of Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion enrollees in 2024—approximately 9.2 million people—were likely ineligible under federal rules, imposing a net federal cost of $32.9 billion that...

Newsom Admin’s Bad Job of Collecting Mandated Statewide Drug Treatment Outcome Data

August 3, 2026 6:00 amAugust 3, 2026 6:01 am

Governor Newsom’s administration has done a very bad job collecting the mandated and very important statewide drug treatment outcome data. Thus, there is not valid treatment outcome information to determine who’s providing effective treatment and for whom. As one industry...

Kiley, GOP Lawmakers Urge HHS to Block Newsom’s Healthcare Tax

July 27, 2026 10:45 amJuly 27, 2026 10:45 am

Independent U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, joined by Republican colleagues including Reps. Jay Obernolte, James Gallagher, Ken Calvert, Vince Fong, and Young Kim, has formally asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to deny federal approval of...

HHS Sec Kennedy Announces Trump Admin is Pausing over $1 billion in Medicaid Payments to California and Minnesota Over Suspected Fraud

July 21, 2026 9:21 amJuly 21, 2026 4:42 pm

UPDATED below: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just announced Tuesday morning that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have deferred more than $1 billion in...