Becker's Healthcare January 29, 2025
Multiple state Medicaid programs have regained access to reimbursement portals after what the White House described as an “outage” on Jan. 28 that potentially affected more than 79 million Americans across Medicaid and CHIP.
Here are 10 things to know about the outage and what happens next:
1. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden’s office was among the first to confirm that Medicaid portals maintained by HHS were down nationwide on Jan. 28, shortly after the Trump administration shared plans to pause agency grants, loans and other financial assistance programs.
2. U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan temporarily blocked the funding freeze until Feb. 3.
3. The Trump administration said Jan. 27 that the freeze would not affect programs such as Social Security,...
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