CMS has updated guidance on minimum health and safety standards that long-term care facilities must meet to participate in Medicare and Medicaid. The guidance specifically addresses nursing home staffing concerns that some say have impacted care quality.
source: REV Cycle Intelligence
A new study from the RAND corporation suggests that extending HUSKY health coverage to all undocumented residents in Connecticut would cost 3% of the state's annual Medicaid budget, putting quality health care within reach for more than 21,000 additional people.
source: WSHU Public Radio
Katie Sawyer, Republican gubernatorial candidate Derek Schmidt's running mate, said neither she nor the attorney general would support Medicaid expansion in its current proposed form.
source: EAGLE-TV
Under an emergency rule from Maine's Department of Health and Human Services, MaineCare members will be automatically enrolled in the new Medicaid dental benefit, which is estimated to represent a $45 million investment in oral health.
source: Mainebiz
Louisiana Medicaid has expanded their comprehensive dental care to adults ages 21 and up with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are enrolled in the New Opportunities Waiver, Residential Options Waiver or the Supports Waiver.
source: BR Proud.com
Some advocates for Medicaid expansion in South Dakota are concerned that two ballot measures with different language and separate backers but the same goals may confuse or diffuse voters, reducing the chances of success in the November election.
source: Rapid City Journal
Top General Assembly leaders said there was no movement toward a last-minute deal to expand Medicaid in North Carolina and bring government health insurance to hundreds of thousands of people in the state.
source: WRAL-TV
A free public baby shower was held at the Ouachita Parish Health Unit.
AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana, a Medicaid management company, travels throughout the state to host free community baby showers. The goal is to improve birth...
source: KNOE-TV
Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) is hiring a new Director of Communications. This position provides an opportunity to lead the organization's external facing communications activities, including advancing our mission, policy positions and programs to the media, public,...
source: MHPA
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced multiple steps to protect access to reproductive health care in a news conference.
source: CNN Health
Gov. Tom Wolf is asking the Pennsylvania legislature to spend millions to raise a key reimbursement rate for skilled nursing homes in the state to help offset costs from proposed new regulations that would increase daily required care.
source: WESA
Republican leadership in the House Rules Committee introduced a committee substitute to Senate Bill 408, which is the bill the House gutted and replaced with its own plan to expand Medicaid and offer aid for rural health care.
source: WGHP-TV
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox took to Twitter this weekend in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of abortion rights to say now is the time for Alabama to expand Medicaid coverage to address pre-natal care and the state's poor infant mortality rates.
source: Al.com
Following the announcement that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the state's House and Senate leaders said they will consider a bill to have Medicaid fund abortions in the state next session.
source: WLNE-TV
Abortion clinics have shuttered and state laws to ban abortion have already taken effect following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade Friday.
That has put a spotlight on FDA-approved abortion pills as a potential option....
source: Yahoo! Finance