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Judge orders Oklahoma Medicaid to restore Mirabelle Care's payments
A judge ordered Oklahoma's Medicaid agency to resume Mirabelle Care's SoonerCare payments and lift its November fraud suspension, the company says. The underlying investigation remains active.
PolicyBusinessDisabilityMental Health
Springfield Hospital will close Vermont adult day program Sept. 30
The program serves 42 clients and is one of only 10 adult day services in Vermont. The hospital cited financial challenges and underutilization since the pandemic.
BusinessElder CareDisability
Oklahoma autism provider says seven centers close this month without Medicaid
Mirabelle Care is preparing to file for injunctive relief after the state froze its SoonerCare payments over a fraud investigation into the company's former owner.
PolicyBusinessDisabilityChild Care
Minnesota's Medicaid provider crackdown hits small home-care agencies
The state is revalidating 5,600 'high-risk' providers and freezing payments; some clients have lost home care or been hospitalized.
PolicyBusinessElder CareDisability
Minnesota's Medicaid provider crackdown reaches federal court
A state revalidation and payment-freeze drive lands on small home care agencies as CMS presses the model nationally.
PolicyBusinessWorkforceElder CareDisabilityGeneral
Minnesota's high-risk Medicaid revalidation lands in federal court
The state's off-cycle screening of 5,600 providers now runs alongside a home care agency's due process fight over a frozen payment.
PolicyBusinessElder CareDisability
England Asks the Public Who Should Pay for Elder Care
Baroness Casey's commission calls England's social-care system 'impossible' and will ask the public who should receive care and how to pay for it.
PolicyBusinessElder CareDisability
CMS Pays Home Health More, and Moves to Revoke Faster
The 2027 home-health rule offers a $420 million raise, the first since 2022, bundled with authority to make all Medicare enrollment revocations retroactive.
PolicyBusinessElder Care
Naming the Emotional Weight of the Sandwich Generation
A psychologist reframes the midlife care squeeze as emotional labor and parentification, and names self-care and policy change as the way through.
PolicyBusinessCultureElder CareChild Care
You Cannot Outsave the Care Bill
Even the Dutch lean on family for elder care, factree argues, while Best Version Media shows a few years of paid help can erase decades of a family's savings.
BusinessCultureElder CareGeneral
Millennial Daughters Are Draining Their Savings for Boomer Parents
The sandwich generation isn't just stressed — it's going broke. And the oldest caregivers can't afford to stop working either.
CultureBusinessElder CareGeneral
One in Four of Your Employees Is a Caregiver. Most Haven't Told You.
Employers are finally getting checklists, data, and a business case for supporting caregiving workers.
BusinessWorkforceElder CareGeneral