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06.12.17

Republican Senators Debate Medicaid Expansion Phase-Out

Inside Health Policy quoted Manatt’s Cindy Mann, a partner with Manatt Health, for an article on the similarities between Republican senators’ debate over the phase-out of Medicaid expansion funding in the American Health Care Act and Democrats’ decision to write the expansion ...


06.07.17

Senate Vote Could Lead to Thousands of Iowans Losing Coverage

The Gazette quoted Manatt’s Cindy Mann, a partner with Manatt Health, for an article on why Iowa’s hospital executives, who recently gathered for the Iowa Hospital Association’s Summer Leadership Forum, are expressing worry over the future of Medicaid.   The publication ...


01.27.17

Republicans Could Decide to Keep Medicaid Expansion

The Hill interviewed Manatt’s Cindy Mann, a partner with Manatt Health, for an article about the future of Medicaid. Congressional Republicans haven’t said whether they want to keep the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion, and questions remain whether financing decisions and ...


01.03.17

New CMS Leadership Could Terminate States’ Waivers

Modern Healthcare quoted Manatt’s Cindy Mann, a partner with Manatt Health, for an article about the future of states’ approved and pending waivers under the Trump administration. A standard provision in each waiver’s terms and conditions allows either a state or the CMS to ...


12.27.16

What Indiana’s Health Policies Could Mean for the U.S.

NPR interviewed Manatt’s Cindy Mann, a partner with Manatt Health, for an article about Seema Verma’s Medicaid program in Indiana.Verma has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump as the new head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The publication suggests that ...


11.21.16

Final Rule on Pass-Through Medicaid Reimbursements Expected

The Hill Extra quoted Manatt’s Cindy Mann, a partner with Manatt Health, for an article regarding a proposed rule that would prohibit pass-through Medicaid reimbursements. Despite resistance from Republican lawmakers, Mann thinks the agency is likely to publish a final rule by the end of the ...


11.02.16

NY Proposes Inmate Healthcare Funding via Medicaid

Modern Healthcare interviewed Manatt’s Cindy Mann and Deborah Bachrach, partners with Manatt Health, for an article about New York’s waiver requesting to use Medicaid funds to help cover the healthcare costs of inmates. The likelihood of the CMS approving the waiver is not clear. The ...


10.12.16

Delivery System Transformation for Medi-Cal

The California Health Care Foundation Blog interviewed Manatt’s Cindy Mann, a partner with Manatt Health, to discuss the recent findings of Manatt’s white paper, “Moving Medi-Cal Forward on the Path to Delivery System Transformation.”Published by the Foundation, the report ...


10.04.16

Manatt Reports Describe a Road Forward for Health Reform

Health Affairs – Grant Watch cited two reports authored by Manatt Health professionals as a part of an article about how grant money can be used to fine-tune Medicaid, including examples of foundation-funded reports from the past year aimed at improving Medicaid in the U.S.As state Medicaid ...


09.15.16

Health Expenses Controlled by Increased Out-of-Pocket Costs

Health Payer Intelligence interviewed Manatt’s Cindy Mann, a partner with Manatt Health, for an article about the how the Affordable Care Act has been beneficial for Americans, as well as what problems need to be fixed. Mann told the publication that the Affordable Care Act has contributed to ...