Northville dentist Demetra C. Kazanis, DDS, is facing a mountain of felony charges after state prosecutors said she overbilled Michigan’s Medicaid program for dental work that either never happened or ...

Tara covers the business of health care. Her stories focus on hospitals, doctors, and how their business practices affect patients — especially when private equity gets involved. She also writes about ...

The Justice Department claims that clinics used fake diagnoses and kickbacks to parents to bring children into treatment. By Sarah Kliff and Ernesto Londoño The Justice Department announced charges on ...

Dentist Dr. Tara Prasad thinks a lot about the logistics of homelessness — how difficult it is to brush your teeth when you don’t have a place to store a toothbrush, or how to protect a life-changing ...

A wide variety of Utah leaders — including sheriffs, police chiefs and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall — along with advocates for people experiencing homelessness and struggling with addiction or ...

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz has sent state Medicaid directors a letter mandating they submit a plan within 30 days on a two-year provider revalidation strategy.

CMS is requiring all 50 states to audit Medicaid providers and submit detailed plans to the agency by May 23, with hospital leaders eager to understand both the scope and the limits of what’s being ...

The Trump Administration last week ordered states to review the qualifications of their Medicaid providers in an effort to clamp down on fraud. Good idea, because states aren’t doing the equivalent of ...

Two of Minnesota’s major addiction treatment providers have built business models that don’t rely on Medicaid, making their finances secure even as they worry about the big picture. Massive cuts to ...

On April 23, 2026, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), sent letters to all governors and State Medicaid Directors requesting that the states do the ...