Tag Archives: Medicare-Medicaid Integration

States Jostle Over $50B Rural Health Fund as Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Trigger Scramble

By | October 22, 2025
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Photo from the Rural Health Transformation Planning Summit. A man in suit, wearing glasses, stands behind podium holding a microphone.

WASHINGTON — Nationwide, states are racing to win their share of a new $50 billion rural health fund. But helping rural hospitals, as originally envisioned, is quickly becoming a quaint idea. Rather, states should submit applications that “rebuild and reshape” how health care is delivered in rural communities, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official Abe Sutton… Read More »

Financial alignment of Medicare and Medicaid may improve access to primary care

By | November 21, 2022
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Better care coordination may improve access to primary care for people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Recent evaluations of the Financial Alignment Initiative (FAI)–an initiative incentivizing the financial alignment of Medicare and Medicaid–suggests care coordination could improve access to primary care services for some dually eligible beneficiaries. Care coordination alone, however, may… Read More »