Felix Mercedes, a 35-year-old resident of Worcester, agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to billing MassHealth for more than $500,000 of services that were never provided.
Disruptions from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are expected to initially impact 36,000 members who are noncitizens but lawfully present here. Health Connector officials anticipate another 19,000 members earning between 400% to 500% of the federal poverty level could become disqualified from their ConnectorCare plans starting on Jan. 1.
Not long after Arab's arrival, he experienced the loss of several elderly relatives, including his mother. Those painful moments shaped his resolve to support other families by opening his own Seniors Helping Seniors branch.
Launched on Friday, the dashboard was created with a focus on health disparities in an effort to enhance transparency, inform public policy, and improve outcomes for mothers and infants throughout the region.
A federal law signed by President Donald Trump could leave as many as 203,000 more Massachusetts residents without health insurance, according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation report.
The Overlook, a senior care facility, has transitioned its home health, hospice and palliative care services to one of its Central Massachusetts care system subsidiaries.
Pharmacy giant CVS will pay more than $12 million to MassHealth after the attorney general alleged the company charged higher prices to the Medicaid program than to cash-paying customers in the general public.