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Axios
Per The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration plans to release guidance as soon as this month for granting states waivers to convert Medicaid funding to block grants, according to two people familiar with the matter, paving the way for a transformation of the 55-year-old program that is likely to reignite a partisan feud.
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The Hill
The politics of Medicaid expansion are changing as an increasing number of red states are dropping their opposition, but for expansion advocates there is also increasing frustration at the remaining holdouts.
To date, 36 states and the District of Columbia have adopted Medicaid expansion, including a handful of conservative strongholds.
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WBUR-FM
Kansas appears likely to become the 37th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, after years of Republican opposition.
The state's Republican Senate majority leader and its Democratic governor struck a bipartisan deal earlier this month to open up the program to Kansas residents earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level, or $29,435 for a family of three.
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Post Bulletin
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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WKRN-TV
The Director of Tennessee's Medicaid program says he will be leaving his job in March. Gabe Roberts' decision comes during negotiations with the federal government over the states block grant proposal.
It aims to become the first to receive funding in a lump sum for its medicaid program. Roberts joined Tenncare as General Counsel in 2013.
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UPI
Insurance can be a life-saver for people with expensive and difficult-to-treat conditions like head and neck cancers.
The latest analysis of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, published Thursday in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, suggests that the growing numbers of people who now have coverage under the law have benefited in terms getting diagnosed and, in some cases, starting treatment earlier.
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HealthPayerIntelligence
Medicaid expansion may influence postpartum coverage stability and outpatient utilization based on results from Colorado and Utah's Medicaid programs, a recent Health Affairs study found.
Using longitudinal administrative data from Utah and claims data from Colorado from between 2013 and 2015 — the period during which the ACA allowed Medicaid expansion, the researchers found better postpartum coverage for Colorado mothers.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Republican lawmakers once again are pushing to make Missouri's Medicaid recipients find jobs if they want to keep their health coverage.
But it's not clear how this latest effort would be squared with a proposal to extend benefits to additional low-income people. An ongoing petition to expand the state's Medicaid program would specifically prohibit such eligibility standards.
Both proposals could land on the ballot in November.
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Home Health Care News
A government official in one state is waging war on what he sees as a dearth of home health data.
Last week, Iowa Auditor Rob Sand voiced how his office could not accurately provide an analysis on certain services provided by the state's Medicaid program, including home-based care, a local CBS affiliate reported.
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The Sheridan Press
The State Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee voted late last week to sponsor a bill that would give Wyoming school districts the option to bill Medicaid for some special education costs.
Wyoming is currently the only state that does not receive special education funding through Medicaid. According to projections from the Wyoming Department of Health, the bill would give the state about $2 million to put toward special education in the first two years following its implementation and increase each biennium thereafter.
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