Category: 5BF
Five Bullet Fridays- Where we boil down Medicaid and HHS industry topics into 5 bullets each week.
Medicaid Funding Wars: Episode 1115 (The Fall of SDoH)
5BF: 05/16/2025
Here are our bullets:
1- MFN back on the menu
2- New CMS RFI for HHS tech
3-Loop Holio big sad
4- A new vision from CMMI
5- Officer eFF Map drops by for a visit
Run time: 12 min
5BF: 05/02/2025
Here are our bullets:
1- Slimy Ron Update
2- Meet Dutch
3-No MA goodies for you!
4- Meet Loop Holio
5- Aetna says Peace Out Homies1- Slimy Ron Update
Run time: 15 min
5BF: 04/11/2025
Here are our bullets:
1- Farris’s Fantastic Fraud Follies
2- MCO Grab-bag: Centene, CareSource news
3- Mr. Patel Goes to Nassau County
4- No GLP-1s for you
5- The Wizard of Ozs
Run time: 15 min
5BF: 03/28/2025
Here are our bullets:
1- Surprise! I co-signed you on a $6B loan.
2- Centene had a bad day (or 2)
3- An AHA! moment
4- Nevada announces MCO winners
5- Fraud Follies
Run time: 15 min
5BF: 03/14/2025
5BF is out, and it’s a Very Special Episode!
Here are our bullets:
1- The Great Lie
2- Fraud type A: Medicaid Members and/or State Officials stealing Medicaid dollars
3- Fraud type B: Single providers acting alone stealing Medicaid dollars
4- Fraud type C: Entire groups of people working together stealing Medicaid dollars
5- Fraud type D: Pharma fraud
Run time: 15 min
5BF: 02/28/2025
Here are our bullets:
1- After Midnight (we’re gonna let it all hang down)
2- Grassley locks in
3- Walgreens settles bogus scripts case with multiple states
4- Will the real DOGE shady, please stand up? Please stand up?
5- Farris’ Fantastic Fraud Follies
Run time: 15 min
5BF: 02/21/2025
Today’s 5BF is out!!
Here are our bullets:
1- GPS Signal Lost (Navigators gravy train coming to an end)
2- Google selling off it’s healthcare assets to MCOs?
3- New explainer out on 340B duplicate discounts
4- Rocket Doctor lands large CA MCO deal, then shoots off into space
5- Farris’ Fantastic Fraud Follies
Run time: 15 min
5BF: 02/14/2025
Today’s 5BF is out!!
1- DOGE WATCH: New signals on federal spending reductions
2- Nebraska trying to stack MCO “tax” on top of last years provider “tax” (LOLZ)
3- States leave $600M on table in Rx rebates (Paperwork not just hard for members)
4- Fabric Health hangs out with you during the rinse cycle
5- Farris’ Fantastic Fraud Follies
Run time: 15 min
