N.Y.’s Increase In Medicaid Payments To Hospitals Came After Industry Made Donation To Democrats

The New York Times reports that the hospital association donated more than $1 million to the state Democratic Party last year and shortly afterward the Cuomo administration quietly approved an increase in reimbursement rates for the first time since 2008. In other state Medicaid news, a former Republican official in Oklahoma changes his views on expanding the program, Tennessee residents raise questions about changes planned there and New Hampshire officials seek to avert problems on school Medicaid funding.

from Kaiser Health News https://ift.tt/2occpXH