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A new insurer is joining Iowa's Medicaid program. Here's what you need to know.

Later this week, Iowa will officially have three insurance companies managing its privatized Medicaid program. New managed care contracts with private insurance companies to manage Iowa's $7 billion ...
The Gazette

Iowa speech therapy providers, advocates worry over impact of pending state rule change

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services says it is changing the way Medicaid can be billed for certain services to ...
The Gazette

Iowa Medicaid sends $4M bills to two families grieving deaths of loved ones with disabilities

Joy and Tom Higgins hold a photo of daughter Kristin Higgins. A few weeks after Kristin died in 2024, they received a letter stating that any money Kristin left behind would have to be remitted to the ...
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Iowa Medicaid insurer reaches $44 million settlement in fraud case for overbilling

Iowa has reached a $44 million settlement with Centene, one of the largest Medicaid insurers in the country and one of Iowa's three managed care organizations, to resolve claims that the company ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

Iowa will award Medicaid contract

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services said it plans to award a new statewide Medicaid contract to Iowa Total Care, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based health insurance provider Centene. The ...
Healthcare Dive

Iowa awards Centene Medicaid managed care contract

Iowa has awarded Centene a new Medicaid managed care contract, extending the insurer’s participation in the state’s $6.7 billion Medicaid program for another six years. Centene subsidiary Iowa Total ...
Iowa Public Radio

Iowa is one of the last states to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage to 12 months. Here’s what to know

Starting this month, pregnant Iowans on Medicaid have 12 months of coverage after giving birth, a significant increase from the previous cutoff of 60 days. Iowa lawmakers approved the change in the ...
Iowa Public Radio

Four months into Medicaid unwinding, Iowa DHHS says around 120,000 Iowans have been disenrolled

State officials are reporting around 120,000 Iowans have been disenrolled from Medicaid since April. The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services is four months into Medicaid unwinding, the ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Data suggests Iowa’s Medicaid investigators are understaffed, underfunded

The Iowa Capital Dispatch’s calls to the Iowa Medicaid Fraud Control Unit were referred to the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing, which declined to comment on the data from the ...
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Iowa Medicaid Sends $4M Bills to Two Families Grieving Deaths of Loved Ones With Disabilities

Collection agents for the state of Iowa have sent letters seeking millions of dollars from the estates of at least two people with disabilities who died after spending most of their lives in a state ...
Des Moines Register

Iowa Medicaid sends $4M bills to families grieving deaths of loved ones with disabilities

Collection agents for the state of Iowa have sent letters seeking millions of dollars from the estates of at least two people with disabilities who died after spending most of their lives in a state ...