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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A legislative committee studying Georgia's troubling record of maternal deaths has found the state could save lives by extending Medicaid coverage for poor mothers to one year following birth.
In recommendations approved this week, it advised the Legislature to do just that. But the timing could hardly be worse, as the Legislature faces budget cuts.
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Health Affairs
CMS recently issued a set of proposed rules designed to respond to a steady drumbeat of criticism about the lack of transparency of Medicaid supplemental payments. The proposed rules, however, go well beyond transparency, and they do little to directly regulate supplemental payments. Instead, they impose new substantive requirements on how states finance their Medicaid programs. If finalized, the rules would have a profound impact on state financing and payment policies that, in turn, could dramatically reduce beneficiary access to care.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
More local and state officials are working to ensure that low-income residents stay on Medicaid when they go to jail.
Federal law bars Medicaid recipients from accessing their full federal health benefits while incarcerated. But officials from both parties have pushed for two key changes to ensure little or no disruption of health benefits for pretrial detainees who have not been convicted of a crime and make up most of the 612,000 people held in America's county jails.
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Modern Healthcare
States use Medicaid funding to foot the bill for mental health and substance use disorder treatment at institutions for mental disease even though federal law prohibits it, according to a report from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission on Monday.
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The Topeka Capital-Journal
There are those Kansas residents who are optimistic the 2020 Legislature and Gov. Laura Kelly would follow collaborative impulses to pass a bipartisan bill expanding Medicaid eligibility for 130,000 to 150,000 low-income Kansas adults and children who don't financially qualify for Medicaid or cannot afford private health insurance. State lawmakers have an opportunity to consider in January at least three options for deepening access to Medicaid, with the objective to become the 37th state to make use of Affordable Care Act provisions available since 2014.
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KIVI-TV
When the Republican-dominated Idaho legislature wouldn't expand Medicaid, the voters overruled them at the polls. Now, despite some lawmakers' attempts to limit the scope of expansion, Gov. Brad Little is providing some details as to how Medicaid Expansion will be funded.
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The Hill via MSN
The Senate is asking the state's Supreme Court to dismiss a review of the potential ballot question because the advocacy group pushing for the measure did not collect enough signatures. The group Florida Decides Healthcare initially aimed to have the Medicaid expansion measure appear on the 2020 ballot, but it failed to raise enough money after the state passed a new law that changed the way canvassers are paid.
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The Associated Press via Miami Herald
Fewer people signed up for health insurance under the state's insurance exchange program following Medicaid expansion, state officials said Wednesday.
Officials with Your Health Idaho say nearly 90,000 Idahoans signed up for coverage ahead of the Dec. 16 deadline. That's down about 14,000 participants compared to last year.
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Virginia Mercury
The last major movement in health care policy in Virginia came last year when the state opened enrollment to its expanded Medicaid program, extending insurance to more than 340,000 people to date.
This year, Virginia Democrats say they want to use their new legislative majorities to build on that program to offer dental coverage to more adults, while also turning their attention to the state's health insurance marketplace and high prescription drug costs.
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The Associated Press via WTOK-TV
The incoming governor of Mississippi says he will keep the state's Medicaid director.
Drew Snyder has been in charge of Medicaid for the past two years under current Gov. Phil Bryant. Snyder is an attorney.
Governor-elect Tate Reeves will be inaugurated as governor Jan. 14.
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