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New York State Budget Institutes Revenue-Neutral Health Plan Tax

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The New York State fiscal year 2024 – 2025 budget was signed on April 20, 2024, instituting, among many other provisions, a new tax on health plans, including insurers and managed care organizations. This tax has been...more

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Medicaid Alert: Changes to Medicaid’s Penalty Divisor Effective April 1, 2024

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Beginning April 1, 2024, the State of New Jersey will increase the Medicaid penalty divisor to $440.10 per day, as compared to the previous penalty divisor of $384.57 in 2023. See Medicaid Communication No. 24-03....more

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Elder Law and Special Needs Newsletter: February 2024 Issue

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Our February Elder Law and Special Needs newsletter is now available! In this issue, our attorneys delve into timely topics such as recent legislative developments in New Jersey. Specifically, we explore new laws designed to...more

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How Employers Need to Prepare for the End of the COVID Public Health Emergency and National Emergency

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On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration announced its intention to make final extensions of both the COVID-19 National Emergency (NE) and the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) through May 11, 2023, at which point...more

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Investigations Newsletter: DOJ Issues Corporate Self-Disclosure Policy

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DOJ Issues Corporate Self-Disclosure Policy - The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy that sets a consistent standard for corporate self-disclosures for all US Attorney’s Offices. The...more

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Dropping Public Charge Rule, DHS Announces Return To Previous Policy To Determine Admissibility

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Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas has announced that the public charge rule, put in place by the Trump administration in 2019, is no longer in effect. Instead, DHS will return to its...more

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Caring for the Whole Child: A New Way to Finance Initiatives to Improve Children’s Health

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Editor’s Note: In a new issue brief prepared on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Nemours Children’s Health System, Manatt Health describes a pathway to ensure that children and their families benefit from...more

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2019 ERISA Welfare Plan Checklist

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We recognize that many of our clients sponsor ERISA welfare benefit plans and are currently undergoing their open enrollment process and issuing related participant communications. To assist our clients with that process, we...more

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State Medicaid Buy-Ins: Key Questions to Consider

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Lawmakers across the country are considering “Medicaid buy-in” programs to stabilize the Affordable Care Act insurance market and offer a coverage option that is more affordable and accessible than current options in the...more

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Trump Administration Proposed Rule Regarding “Public Charge” Provisions of Immigration Law

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Currently, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) defines a "public charge" as someone who is or is likely to become "primarily dependent on the government for subsistence, as demonstrated by either the receipt of...more

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Intended Consequences: Modernizing Medi-Cal Rate-Setting to Improve Health and Manage Costs

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A new report prepared for the California Health Care Foundation reviews California’s Medicaid rate-setting process and offers recommendations for adjustments to that process to encourage health plan investments in...more

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Manatt on Medicaid: 10 Trends to Watch in 2018

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Medicaid has entered a period of volatile change, unprecedented in its 51-year history. With 74 million members nationwide,1 Medicaid provides health coverage to more than one in four Americans, ensuring access to...more

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CMS Guidance Paves Way for Medicaid Work Requirements

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) started the year with a bang, issuing guidance on January 11, 2018, in support of Medicaid demonstration projects that condition coverage on beneficiary participation in work...more

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Health Care Reform Implementation Update - February 26, 2014

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Though Congress was in recess this past week, congressional staff was hard at work continuing to consider ways to prevent a cut to Medicare providers’ payment rates that will be triggered by the sustainable growth rate...more

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