medicaid

New York State is facing the largest budget gap in several years. The $6 billion dollar deficit is due largely to higher costs for Medicaid.

“I think everybody would admit it’s a gimmick. You don’t have enough money in your checking account to pay your bills and so you just tell the people who are expecting money, ‘You have to hang on for a few days until my checkbook replenishes.’ ”

The Pennsylvania governor has vetoed two different bills. Lawmakers plan to send him a third.

Is New York entering the bad old days of fiscal gimmicks like selling Attica prison? A budget watchdog group says the delay of a major medicaid payment from one fiscal year into the next is reminiscent of those times.

The random reviews are part of a new strategy to make sure contractors aren't misusing Pennsylvania's dollars.

After an 18-month investigation into Medicaid fraud in Pennsylvania, a grand jury panel is suggesting state lawmakers make some changes to disrupt what they describe as "systemic" patterns of malfeasance.

They say these cuts would eliminate millions in Medicaid funding that supports Graduate Medical Education at five academic medical centers across the state.

The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, also known as CDPA, lets New Yorkers who qualify for Medicaid benefits hire their own aides and manage their schedule. Sally Johnston, president of Disabled in Action of Greater Syracuse, said it has been an important way to keep disabled individuals independent.

ALBANY, NY (WSKG) - An independent budget watchdog group agrees with an idea that Republican candidate for governor Marc Molinaro has to help bring down local property taxes. But it also says there is a tradeoff to any potential savings.

HARRISBURG, PA (WSKG) -- State House lawmakers have voted to create work requirements for able-bodied people to get Medicaid coverage.Such requirements weren’t federally permitted for Medicaid until the Trump administration changed the policy several months ago.