Federal Medicaid teams deployed to help states cut costs get mixed reviews, By Christopher Weaver, April 13, 2011, Kaiser Health News: “Earlier this year, governors — both Republicans and Democrats — asked the federal Department of Health and Human Services for greater freedom in bending Medicaid rules to make it easier to narrow gaping state budget deficits. The department demurred, but offered the states teams of experts to search for savings within the current rules. The teams, HHS said at the time, would be deployed to states that asked for help on Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor and disabled. Nearly half the states took HHS up on its offer, according to newly released information from HHS…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty