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The Tennessean
Medicaid expansion makes it less likely that low-income people will suffer from plummeting health that jeopardizes their lives, according to a new study by Vanderbilt University and Harvard University researchers scrutinizing Tennessee and 11 other southern states.
The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs, imply that for every 1,000 people who gain insurance coverage through Medicaid expansion, 257 fewer people experience a decline in their health.
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FierceHealthcare
The Trump administration has selected Brad Smith to serve as the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), where he will oversee the creation and stewardship of value-based payment models.
Smith most recently was the chief operating officer of Anthem's Diversified Business Group, a division of the insurance giant that includes provider services. He was also the co-founder and CEO of palliative care services company Aspire Health.
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Crain's New York Business
New York lawmakers are set to return to Albany this week for the start of the new legislative session, and a second year of near-total control of state government by Democrats.
During last year's session, Democrats — who wrested control of the state Senate from Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections — passed a tsunami of bills long desired by liberals. This year, they are set to tackle complicated and weedy topics that have yet to pass, including paid surrogacy, aid-in-dying and a single-payer health care system.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
State officials will not award a statewide brokerage contract and will continue to study how to best administer an assistance program that aids low-income Pennsylvanians who need non-emergency medical transportation, at least in the short-term.
What would have been a potentially sweeping change was halted last year after state legislators, advocates, and local county officials raised concerns and said the issue needed further study before a contract was awarded.
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Dayton Daily News
Ohio Department of Medicaid will soon launch a new change to bring more transparency and simplicity to its $3 billion prescription drug program, in the wake of months of criticism of the pharmacy benefit managers that administer these dollars.
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Skilled Nursing News
The federal government extended the deadline for providers — both acute and post-acute — to comment on a proposed rule that would crack down on supplemental payment programs under Medicaid.
The new deadline is Feb. 1, pushed back about two weeks from the original end date of Jan. 17.
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Managed Healthcare Executive
Michigan's Medicaid expansion has proven successful in expanding healthcare access, according to two new studies.
The findings appear in two papers published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine by several members of the Healthy Michigan Plan (HMP) evaluation team from the University of Michigan (U-M) Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI).
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KSNT-TV
It is estimated that 150,000 Kansans will be newly eligible for Medicaid, if Medicaid Expansion is implemented. A new report from the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas shows members of Native American tribes in the state would especially benefit from expansion.
There are four resident Native American tribes in Kansas: The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska. All four tribes have come together to pass a resolution in support of Medicaid Expansion.
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Valdosta Daily Times
Georgia Gov. Brain Kemp sent his partial health care waiver plan to Washington for federal review, despite calls for full Medicaid expansion.
Kemp unveiled his health care waiver proposal and opened it for public comment from Nov. 4 to Dec. 3.
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North Country Public Radio
Over the New Year's holiday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that New York's health care providers will see a 1% drop in the reimbursements they receive for the government-funded Medicaid health care program.
It’s part of an effort to reduce a multibillion-dollar budget gap that the state is facing.
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