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MHPA
This week, MHPA released a statement in response to the Administration's Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Request to Congress. Read the full statement here.
Winston-Salem Journal
The North Carolina Department of Health Services is trying to move forward where it can with the Medicaid managed care transition since the initiative was suspended Nov. 19.
However, until $218 million in start-up funding is released from the state budget or a mini budget bill, the agency and reform groups remain in neutral, state Medicaid director Dave Richard said Tuesday.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
Pregnant women who rely on state-administered Medicaid health insurance programs are far less likely to receive recommended vaccines that could protect them and their babies, compared to those with private coverage, a study from Florida suggests.
Researchers at the University of Florida analyzed vaccination data from 341 adult women randomly selected from nearly 7,000 whose healthcare costs were covered by Medicaid or private insurance and who gave birth between from 2016 through 2018.
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By connecting vulnerable populations with public benefit programs, we improve health outcomes for members and in doing so, we enhance our clients' bottom line.
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MLive
A new initiative focusing on baby and maternal health would expand Medicaid family planning services to 30,000 Michigan women, according to a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Part of Whitmer's budget introduced last week is a new, $37.5 "Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies" initiative. It would expand Medicaid family planning benefits to cover women of child-bearing age up to 200 percent of the poverty level. That level would cover women in one-person households making up to $25,520, two-person households making up to $34,480 or four-person households making up to $52,400.
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An MCO saw rapid results after launching mPulse Mobile Redetermination and Health Risk Screenings Solutions. Results include a 3x increase in completion rate for Health Risk Screenings and a 20+ percentage point increase in redetermination rates. Read more about the study and outcomes here.
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Wyoming Business Report
Hours into the start of the 2020 legislative session, the Wyoming House killed a bill Monday that would've set the stage for Medicaid expansion.
The bill fell at the earliest hurdle in the House, with nearly two thirds of the body voting against it as part of the chamber's consent list. It's a swift end for the measure, which would've given Gov. Mark Gordon the ability to study expansion and move it forward, albeit under the eye of the Legislature.
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MyTwinTiers.com
County leaders from across New York State took to the Capitol on Wednesday to meet with senators and assembly members, asking them to reject part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget that they say is going to negatively affect taxpayers.
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CAQH
 Improper Medicaid payments, such as for ineligible patients or for services not provided, were
estimated to be $36.2 billion in fiscal 2018, accounting for 9.8% of Medicaid spending. The road to accountability is only growing more complex, and payers, especially Medicaid and MCO plans, cannot succeed without a strong strategy for effective COB/TPL.
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Albany Times Union
A group convened by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to identify billions of dollars worth of Medicaid savings for the state met for the first time Tuesday, providing some insight into how the panel intends to arrive at its recommendations.
Chaired by Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health, and Dennis Rivera, former head of SEIU Healthcare, the 21-member panel will meet just three times before it must submit a list of recommendations to the governor and Legislature in mid-March for consideration in the state budget due April 1.
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The Topeka Capital-Journal
As Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle cozied up to donors at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser, her colleagues in the Kansas Legislature navigated the smoldering debris of a failed vote on Wagle's signature issue — a constitutional amendment on abortion.
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Tulsa World
House Democrats on Monday unveiled a legislative agenda that they say will move the needle for those who are underfunded and undervalued.
It includes more education reforms, increasing the minimum wage, expanding Medicaid and reforming the cash bail system.
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KTVB-TV
Idaho's Medicaid expansion is going "remarkably smoothly," the Legislature’s joint budget committee learned Monday as it held its annual budget hearing into the state’s Medicaid program, according to the Idaho Press.
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