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Avalere: Medicaid plans expected to grow 20 percent under
ACA expansion
Avalere Health LLC
An analysis from Avalere Health finds that Medicaid managed care enrollment will increase by 20 percent from 2013 to 2014 and by 38 percent from 2013 to 2016. This increase is driven by state decisions to expand the use of managed care, as well as the influx of new Medicaid beneficiaries under the Affordable Care Act.
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NGA developing state-level proposals on healthcare cost, quality
Inside Health Policy
As part of the National Governors Association's annual "State of the States" address on Jan. 15, NGA Chair Mary Fallin and Vice Chair John Hickenlooper discussed states' plans to move forward on developing state-level recommendations for how to cut healthcare costs and increase quality.
CMS gives states 5 years to implement lengthy community services for disability changes; MHPA's Myers comments
Inside Health Policy
Disability advocates are cautiously applauding a final CMS rule out that provides states flexibility to offer home and community-based services to target specific populations, sets one national definition for home and community-based settings that could be applied to a HCBS waiver, defines person-centered planning requirements and allows for a five-year transition period. The rule also provides states the option to combine coverage for multiple target populations into one and provides CMS with additional compliance options beyond waiver termination.
Warning: Ignore claims that 3.9 million people signed up for Medicaid
because of Obamacare
The Washington Post
In looking at a tweet by the @BarackObama Twitter account, maintained by the pro-Obama group Organizing for America, the 6 million figure comes from combining a figure of 2.1 million for people selecting a plan via state and federal exchanges, through December, and 3.9 million for Medicaid, through November. Thus, the claim that "6 million Americans have already signed up for coverage thanks to health reform."
CMS awards states bonuses for enrolling children in Medicaid
Inside Health Policy
CMS awarded more than $307 million in Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act Performance Bonuses to 23 states in fiscal 2013, the fifth and final year of the bonus awards. Bonuses range from $1 million for North Dakota to more than $58 million for Colorado.
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Medicaid advisory panel in North Carolina takes public comment
The Associated Press via WRAL-TV
Influential players in North Carolina's medical community lined up behind a proposal that largely retains the current Medicaid payment method but shifts slightly the risk for cost overruns to providers.
North Carolina Medicaid budget impossible to forecast due to ongoing DHHS computer woes
North Carolina Health News
After months of negative publicity about computer glitches in her department, Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos apologized for a massive data-privacy breach that occurred at the end of December, when the North Carolina state Medicaid program sent the wrong registration cards to more than 48,000 child Medicaid recipients.
New plan would use Medicaid dollars for private insurance in Nebraska
NET
Federal Medicaid dollars would help low income Nebraskans pay for private health insurance under a proposal introduced in the legislature. It is the second time lawmakers have attempted to expand Medicaid in Nebraska. Last year, the proposal was strictly to expand the government healthcare program to cover low income Nebraskans.
133,000 Florida residents waiting for Medicaid
Health News Florida
The number of low-income Floridians waiting in computer limbo for their Medicaid card is far higher than previously thought, according to the Department of Children and Families. Ninety thousand Florida Medicaid accounts that cover 133,000 people have been stuck in the federal Healthcare.gov data system for weeks pending transfer to the state, said Jennifer Lange, project director for the Medicaid Eligibility System Project at DCF.
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