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The Hill
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar says his department is working on additional proposals aimed at high drug prices, including some that could be enacted without congressional action. In an interview with WTHR-TV in Indianapolis on Tuesday, Azar pointed to the proposals to Congress on drug pricing that the administration made in its budget this month, but also said the department is working on other proposals that might not need congressional approval.
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The Hill
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Oregon) is aiming to get a House vote on opioid epidemic legislation by Memorial Day. The panel is gearing up to begin work Feb. 28 on bills aimed at curbing the prescription painkiller and heroin epidemic plaguing the country, as overdose deaths from opioid use jumped nearly 28 percent from 2015 to 2016.
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Washington Examiner
A new report finds 11 states and the District of Columbia don't have enough doctors who are able to prescribe a treatment experts say is key to treating opioid addiction. The consulting firm Avalere Health, which counts pharmaceutical and life science companies among its clients, found that 11 states and the District of Columbia lack enough providers certified to prescribe buprenorphine, which helps prevent relapses among addicts. The findings highlight the importance of expanding the number of healthcare providers who can prescribe the treatment, Avalere said.
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KCUR-FM
Missouri's general revenue spending on Medicaid has topped more than 2 billion dollars annually in recent years and its costs are rising. That's a problem for Republican State Sen. David Sater of Springfield. The Springfield lawmaker is sponsoring a bill that would require Missouri to seek permission from the federal government to get what's called a global waiver, basically allowing the state to create its own rules for operating Medicaid.
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Missourian
Calling Medicaid "the most unrecognized policy crisis in the country," Sen. David Sater discussed in a committee hearing Wednesday a bill he introduced that would add work requirements to Medicaid eligibility. The bill requires "able-bodied" Medicaid recipients to work a minimum of 80 hours a month through paid employment as well as volunteer work, job training, job searching, attending school or caring for the elderly or disabled.
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Dayton Daily News
Ohio for the first time is seeking federal approval to create job requirements as a condition to qualify for Medicaid. Most Ohio residents enrolled through the expansion of Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor, are already working or would be exempt because of things like their age, disability or care taking responsibilities.
But an estimated 36,000 residents — 5 percent of the 700,000 Ohioans on Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act — would risk losing their health insurance if they don't either have a job for at least 20 hours per week, look for work or attend school or job training.
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The Hill
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is countersuing to stop a lawsuit filed by critics of the state's plan to institute Medicaid work requirements. The administration filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Kentucky on Monday seeking a ruling that the state’s Medicaid waiver fully complies with federal law.
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The Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle
Some Alaska lawmakers want to require Medicaid recipients to work in order to receive their benefits. Two bills introduced in the Legislature would impose work requirements, something one of the sponsors, Senate President Pete Kelly, said should be seen as a "privilege" and not a punishment.
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The Washington Post
Leaders of Virginia's House of Delegates are trying to sell wary fellow Republicans on Medicaid expansion by tying it to President Trump and Vice President Pence. House Speaker M. Kirkland Cox contends that expanding the federal-state health-care program during the Trump administration offers the "best chance for conservative reforms." He also compares the House’s expansion plan with the "Indiana-style model" adopted by that state in 2015, when Pence was its governor.
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New Hampshire Public Radio
People traveled from all corners of the state Tuesday afternoon to urge New Hampshire lawmakers to renew Medicaid expansion, which is set to expire at the end of this year. While most of those who testified at Wednesday's hearing agreed expansion should continue — the group of supporters ranging from municipal officials to the heads of community health centers to mental health advocates — there were disagreements over there were disagreements over whether the current proposal put forward by Senate Republicans was the best way to do so.
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Times Union
New York's Medicaid director, Jason Helgerson, will step down from his post later this spring once the 2018-19 state budget is finalized, the governor's office confirmed Tuesday. Helgerson was the principal behind New York's massive effort to redesign Medicaid, a $68 billion-a-year program serving more than 6.5 million New Yorkers.
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