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The Hill
President Barack Obama is proposing to boost federal funding for states that choose to expand Medicaid under Obamacare in a new effort to entice states to make the move. Obama will propose in his 2017 budget to have the federal government pick up the entire cost of expansion for three years, no matter when a state decides to accept the expansion.
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Kaiser Health News
A growing number of primary care doctors, spurred by the federal health law and frustrations with insurance requirements, are bringing a service that generally has been considered "healthcare for billionaires" to middle-income, Medicaid and Medicare populations. It’s called direct primary care, modeled after "concierge" practices that have gained prominence in the past two decades.
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The Associated Press via The Baltimore Sun
With North Carolina's path to overhauling Medicaid finalized last fall, the race is on for state health officials to meet a tight schedule so a new managed-care system can take effect by 2018 or 2019. The head of the new Division of Health Benefits, which is tasked with carrying out the overhaul, told a legislative oversight committee Tuesday that her office is on track to meet deadlines in March and June.
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Kansas Health Institute
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's administration on Wednesday unveiled a budget proposal that would require new KanCare patients to try less-expensive drugs first and end a pilot program to improve the health of Kansans with severe mental illnesses.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
Nevada officials on Wednesday assured advocates in Clark County that any process to privatize Medicaid services for the elderly, blind and disabled will move slowly and will be transparent. Advocates with Nevadans for the Common Good, a coalition of Las Vegas Valley institutions advocating for several issues including protection for vulnerable senior citizens, and members of AARP, a lobbying group for retirees, met privately with state officials. Attendees at the closed-door meeting included Richard Whitley, director of the state's Health and Human Services Department.
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MHPA
Thanks again to all who attended and who participated in this great recap of MHPA's annual conference. (download conference presentations here).
Next up: Save the date for mhpa2016 from Sept. 21-23!
The New York Times
On Tuesday, his second day in office, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed an executive order expanding Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, fulfilling a campaign promise that will expand health coverage to hundreds of thousands of people in one of the nation's poorest states. The action by Edwards, a Democrat, under President Barack Obama's healthcare law was expected to be one of the most significant and immediate results of his election in November, when he defeated Sen. David Vitter, a Republican whose campaign was tainted by a prostitution scandal.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
As he enters his crucial third year in office, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday night called on the Virginia General Assembly to work with him to strengthen the state economy, while promising to block any efforts to curtail Democratic priorities such as gay marriage, abortion rights and gun control.
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Georgia Health News
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said Wednesday that health care spending continues to burden Georgia's budget, and he signaled that his longtime opposition to expanding the state's Medicaid program has not changed. His comments in the State of the State address contrasted with the actions of some fellow governors, who recently have proposed or pushed Medicaid expansion.
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Kansas Health Institute
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's administration on Wednesday unveiled a budget proposal that would require new KanCare patients to try less-expensive drugs first and end a pilot program to improve the health of Kansans with severe mental illnesses.
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Kansas Health Institute
Several of the 260 pages in the consultant's report are devoted to addressing potentially costly administrative problems in the state of Kansas' privatized Medicaid program, known as KanCare.
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AL.com
The Alabama Medicaid Agency, the largest consumer of dollars from the state's General Fund, requested a $157 million increase today at budget hearings at the Alabama State House. That would be a 23 percent increase from this year's General Fund appropriation of $685 million for Medicaid.
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Beacon Health Options
Beacon Health Options, the nation's premier behavioral health management company, has announced that it has received four consecutive Full Accreditations as a Managed Behavioral Health Organization from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in 2015.
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PwC
For those who did not attend the session at mhpa2015, this webinar will explore findings from PwC's annual report, "The Still Expanding State of Medicaid in the United States", including an extensive view of the Medicaid market and private Medicaid health plans, the continuing impact of Medicaid expansion, and key considerations around the future growth potential of the Medicaid market, powered by the proprietary collection and analysis of state Medicaid data.
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American College of Nurse-Midwives
During this webinar, Jesse S. Bushman, MA, MALA, the director of advocacy and government affairs for the American College of Nurse-Midwives will describe how Medicaid health plans can save money on what is the most common hospital service they cover, birth and maternity care. Medicaid programs cover nearly half of all births in the country. ACNM estimates that total costs to the Medicaid programs for maternity care and the first three months of life for infants totals more than $19 billion each year, making it a significant cost driver for the program.
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