updated Tue. April 2, 2024
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Observer
April 26, 2018
Women's advocates, doulas and residents say they are encouraged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to expand Medicaid coverage for doulas to address maternal mortality and higher rates of mortality among black women in pregnancy and childbirth. As part of a multi-pronged initiative to tackle maternalÃâà...
Boise Weekly
April 26, 2018
Organizers with Medicaid for Idaho said late Wednesday that they have collected an estimated 5,5000 signatures in their effort to secure 56,102 valid signatures by Monday, April 30 in order to bring the issue of Medicaid expansion to the November ballot. Additionally, volunteers said they had gatheredÃâà...
Montgomery Advertiser
April 26, 2018
Alabama is seeking federal permission to require extremely low-income parents with Medicaid coverage to have jobs outside the home. This plan would take coverage away from around 17,000 people who would have nowhere else to turn, and it would be a radical departure from traditional Medicaid rulesÃâà...
The Boston Globe
April 26, 2018
Seema Verma has one of the biggest jobs in health care: She runs the massive federal agency that insures 130 million Americans on Medicare, the health program for seniors, and Medicaid, the health program for the poor, low-income, and disabled. As administrator of the Washington-based Centers forÃâà...
Elmira Star-Gazette
April 26, 2018
If you are a Medicaid recipient who makes frequent hospital visits, health officials want to help you find a better way. Two Elmira hospitals are taking part in a state pilot project designed to reduce Medicaid costs by making services more efficient and reducing unnecessary and costly hospital visits. The stateÃâà...
Becker's Hospital Review
April 26, 2018
Despite promises from the Iowa Department of Human Services to finish Medicaid contract negotiations before state legislators pass an annual budget, contract negotiations have been stalled and the legislation is expected to pass a budget as early as next week, reports the Des Moines Register. In 2015Ãâà...
Arkansas Times
April 26, 2018
Arkansas's distinctive form of Medicaid expansion has been precarious since its creation in 2013 by a bipartisan coalition. Again and again, first when initially rolled out as the "private option" while Mike Beebe was governor, and even after being rebranded and revised as Arkansas Works by GovernorÃâà...
Virginia Gazette
April 26, 2018
Medicaid Expansion for Virginia has already been paid for by our taxes under the Affordable Care Act. It is fiscally responsible to draw federal funds to finance Medicaid expansion. Virginia has already left $10.5 billion for this on the table. The state now pays half for Medicaid services. That would change toÃâà...
Roll Call
April 26, 2018
This year could mark a significant shift for Medicaid programs across the country, as some states look to expand the government insurance program to more poor Americans while others seek to add more requirements for people who benefit. Initiatives to get Medicaid expansion put on the November ballotÃâà...
Vox
April 12, 2018
People who work might still be at serious risk of losing their health insurance under new Medicaid work requirements being pushed by the Trump administration, according to a new analysis. The left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examined state proposals to require Medicaid to prove theyÃâà...
Kaiser Family Foundation
April 12, 2018
Medicaid has historically filled critical gaps in responding to public health crises, such as the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, the Flint water crisis, and numerous natural disasters since the program originated. As with these other public health crises, Medicaid helps to address the opioid epidemic by providingÃâà...
WDSU New Orleans
April 12, 2018
An estimated 20,000 poor parents in Mississippi will lose health coverage over five years under a proposal requiring Medicaid recipients to work for their benefits, according to a report from Georgetown University. The Sun Herald reported Tuesday that Mississippi asked President Donald Trump'sÃâà...
Quad City Times
April 12, 2018
Amerigroup Iowa once again is actively accepting Medicaid members as part of the state's managed-care system. ... AmeriHealth Caritas, one of the managing-care organizations that handled Medicaid coverage in Iowa, announced in October it would exit Iowa's market at the beginning of this year.
Vox
April 12, 2018
But if you look at the steps the Trump administration is taking to dramatically shrink Medicaid — the nation's largest insurer, which covers more than 75 million Americans — it's clear that Ryan's dreams are alive and well. Through work requirements and other restrictions, President Donald Trump couldÃâà...
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
April 12, 2018
Parents and caretakers of Medicaid recipients are among the few able-bodied adults on Mississippi Medicaid. They currently qualify for Medicaid if their family income is below 27 percent of the poverty level, $5,600 annually for a family of three. If they worked for 20 hours a week as the waiver proposes,Ãâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 12, 2018
The debate at the Minnesota Capitol over a proposed work requirement for some on Medicaid has drawn renewed focus on 2014 — the year that more than 47,000 Minnesotans lost food stamp benefits after work requirements were reintroduced for that program. That number has now grown to 66,000Ãâà...
TalkPoverty
April 12, 2018
Just as the vessel is held together by the hands of the artisan, I was held together by Medicaid. My doctors and I worked together fill the cracks in my life with things far more valuable and precious than gold. Love for myself, my family, and the rest of humanity. Coping skills for the times when I am not well.
The Denver Post
April 11, 2018
Colorado, it seems, has some figuring to do when it comes to management and oversight of Medicaid. The Denver Post's Christopher N. Osher reported over the weekend that a federal audit of the state's Medicaid program found substantial waste, fraud and abuse. The Centers for Medicare and MedicaidÃâà...
