Tag: System

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates suggests children belong to school system

During a speech at the City Club of Chicago, Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Stacy Davis Gates made

NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft, Exploring Solar System Origins, Is Back on Track after Thrusters Lost Power

NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft, Exploring Solar System Origins, Is Back on Track after Thrusters Lost Power NASA’s Psyche spacecraft

Stellar flares may hamper search for life in promising star system

The Search for Atmospheres around TRAPPIST-1 Star System Faces Challenges Illustration of TRAPPIST-1, a red-dwarf star with at

A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is

Zia Mehrabi, the founder of the Better Planet Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been at

Jail Increases Provide Insight Into Justice System Changes

Observations This article discusses the latest trends in the US jail population based on data from the Bureau

Ex-Assembly candidate charged with illegally scamming state campaign matching system

A former Democratic candidate for New York state Assembly has been accused of stealing $160,000 in taxpayer funds

When will a vital system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean collapse? Depends on whom you ask.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current, commonly known as AMOC, has been a subject of concern for scientists due

Superblocks CEO: How to find a unicorn idea by studying AI system prompts

Uncovering the Hidden Potential of System Prompts in AI Startups Brad Menezes, the CEO of Superblocks, a cutting-edge

Eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicaid My Administration has been relentlessly committed to rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in Government programs to preserve and protect them for those who rely most on them. The Medicaid program was designed to be a program to compassionately provide taxpayer dollars to healthcare providers who offer care to the most vulnerable Americans. To keep payments reasonable, billable costs for such care were historically capped at the same level that healthcare providers could receive from Medicare. The State and Federal Governments jointly shared this cost burden to ensure those of lesser means did not go untreated. Under the Biden Administration, States and healthcare providers were permitted to game the system. For example, States “taxed” healthcare providers, but sent the same money back to them in the form of a “Medicaid payment,” which automatically unlocked for healthcare providers an additional “burden-sharing” payment from the Federal Government. Through this gimmick, the State could avoid contributing money toward Medicaid services, meaning the State no longer had a reason to be prudent in the amount of reimbursement provided. Instead of paying Medicare rates, many States that utilize these arrangements now pay the same healthcare providers almost three times the Medicare amount, a practice encouraged by the Biden Administration. These State Directed Payments have rapidly accelerated, quadrupling in magnitude over the last 4 years and reaching $110 billion in 2024 alone. This trajectory threatens the Federal Treasury and Medicaid’s long-term stability, and the imbalance between Medicaid and Medicare patients threatens to jeopardize access to care for our seniors. I pledged to protect and improve these important Government healthcare programs for those that rely on them. Seniors on Medicare and Medicaid recipients both deserve access to quality care in a system free from the fraud, waste, and abuse, that enriches the unscrupulous and jeopardizes the programs themselves. We will take action to continue to love and cherish the Medicare and Medicaid programs to ensure they are preserved for those who need them most. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall therefore take appropriate action to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid, including by ensuring Medicaid payments rates are not higher than Medicare, to the extent permitted by applicable law. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. DONALD J. TRUMP

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

iOS 19: All the rumored changes Apple could be bringing to its new operating system

New Features Expected in iOS 26 Apple is gearing up to unveil iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, and

China increases scrutiny over rare earth magnets with new tracking system

China Implements Tracking System for Rare Earth Magnets Amid Export Restrictions BEIJING (Reuters) - China has recently put