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MHPA
Last week, MHPA submitted comments on a proposed CMS rule, "Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation." While MHPA supports CMS in its efforts to advance the goals of transparency and strengthening the overall fiscal integrity of the Medicaid program, MHPA has significant concerns with the CMS proposal, which would impose considerable burden and uncertainty for state Medicaid programs. Read MHPA's full comment letter here.
Axios
Major health industry groups, governors and state Medicaid directors have all raised significant concerns with a Trump administration proposal that would change the rules and oversight of some forms of state Medicaid financing.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Big changes are on deck for Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for poor children and some poor adults. In Georgia, people have four more days to comment on an especially big change being sought for the state. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is accepting public comment until Friday on Gov. Brian Kemp's Medicaid waiver proposal.
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Politico
Four leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination said that their health care plans would cover tens of thousands of Pacific Islanders who were promised Medicaid coverage after U.S. nuclear-weapons testing but lost coverage in a 1996 welfare reform bill.
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The Hill
Democrats are vowing to fight the Trump administration's new plan to let states turn some of their Medicaid funds into a block grant, but blocking the overhaul will be a challenge.
The program — branded as the "Healthy Adult Opportunity" — will allow states to ask permission for a waiver to end their traditional, open-ended Medicaid program and put hard caps on how much money states and the federal government will spend on the poor and disabled.
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WSHU-FM
A new Trump administration proposal would allow states to cap Medicaid spending. Some healthcare policy experts say it might help New York cut its $6 billion budget deficit.
Policy expert Walter Markowitz says New York should at least consider opting in to the federal rule change. He's a professor of health professions at Hofstra University.
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Tulsa World
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has announced his administration's healthcare plan, called SoonerCare 2.0, in Washington, D.C., where he was participating in the Trump administration's release of the Healthy Adult Opportunity (HAO) initiative to give unprecedented flexibility to states to innovate and develop Medicaid plans for the adult population where federal funding is optional.
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Concord Patch
The New Hampshire Senate moved decisively and unanimously to pass legislation on Thursday that will help return to school districts about $29 million in Medicaid reimbursements. It also voted along party lines, 14-10, to approve a new minimum wage. Senators also backed the naming of the Brentwood section of Route 125 as the Officer Stephen Arkell Memorial Highway in honor of a beloved fallen police officer. Additionally, it voted in favor of proclaiming Jan. 24 as "Granny D. Day." Doris "Granny D." Haddock was a citizen of Dublin who walked 3,200 miles across the United States to promote campaign finance reform.
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Herald-Tribune
Backed by a scorched earth attack on Big Pharma and the "health care industrial complex," Florida House Speaker Jose Oliva is promoting wide-ranging changes to the state's medical landscape that may cause a possible side effect.
Republicans hope they help at the ballot box in the nation's biggest presidential swing state.
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MSN
A group of panelists sat on a stage at Little America to answer questions about Wyoming Medicaid expansion on Jan. 30. The panelists included healthcare workers, state representatives and state senators.
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