Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
S.C. Lawmakers To Wrestle With Medicaid Costs, While Calif. Gets Waivers To Implement Reforms
Gov. Nikki Haley isn鈥檛 expected to release her proposed executive budget until mid-January, but the South Carolina Medicaid director already said his agency needs millions more from the General Assembly next year. If it doesn鈥檛 get the extra funds, the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the low-income Medicaid program, will consider scaling back services or cutting reimbursement rates paid to doctors and hospitals. (Sausser, 1/4)
CMS last week officially approved a five-year, $6.2 billion federal 1115 waiver for California, also known as Medi-Cal 2020. The waiver approval means California can move forward on four reform fronts over the next five years. (Gorn, 1/4)
A nonprofit group that represents service providers for Kansans with developmental disabilities will look for a new leader this year, during an important transition in how the state provides Medicaid coverage for those services. Tom Laing announced Monday that he will retire in September after 22 years as the executive director of InterHab in Topeka. (Marso, 1/4)
