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The Hill
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday night unveiled a proposal to lift limits on Medicaid paying for opioid treatment. The proposal could be one of the more significant and costly steps that Congress takes to fight the opioid epidemic, but there are concerns about how to pay for it.
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Kaiser Family Foundation
A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis finds that while the use of prescription opioids among people with employer-based health coverage has declined to its lowest levels in over a decade, the cost of treating addiction and overdoses has increased sharply. The annual cost of treating opioid addiction and overdose – stemming from both prescription and illicit use — has increased by more than eight-fold since 2004, from $0.3 billion dollars to $2.6 billion in 2016.
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The Hill
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a sweeping final Medicare rule that included altering a draft proposal aimed at curbing the opioid epidemic that had proven controversial. The agency had received pushback on a proposal that would have meant a prescription for high doses of opioids (90 milligrams of morphine per day or more) automatically wouldn't be filled and the patient would need special permission from their private insurance company in order to receive the medication.
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Roll Call
The Senate health panel on Wednesday released a discussion draft intended to curb opioid addiction. The development comes as other House and Senate committees also prepare legislation. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee plans to discuss this legislation at an upcoming hearing on April 11. The panel has already held six hearings on the opioid crisis so far this Congress featuring representatives from agencies including the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as governors from states affected by the crisis.
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Mooresville Tribune via InsuranceNewsNet.com
North Carolina and the other 17 states that have not expanded their Medicaid program are running out of excuses from an analytical standpoint, according to a leading healthcare law expert. Mark Hall, a law and public health professor at Wake Forest University, released last week a study titled "Do states regret expanding Medicaid?"
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The Plain Dealer
The Ohio Department of Medicaid soon will submit its proposed Medicaid waiver to the federal government, hoping to gain approval to apply work requirements to the Medicaid expansion population. The waiver requires most able-bodied adults to work or participate in a sanctioned community engagement activity, like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) education and training activities, for 80 hours monthly to be eligible for Medicaid.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
A plan to continue New Hampshire's expanded Medicaid program advanced in the House on Thursday, though it likely will be significantly modified before facing another vote. The current program uses Medicaid funds to buy private health plans for about 50,000 low-income residents through the marketplace created under the federal Affordable Care Act, but it will expire this year if lawmakers don't reauthorize it. The House voted 222-125 Thursday to send a reauthorization bill to its finance committee, where members already have been drafting amendments.
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KQED-TV
Disgusted with federal attacks on Obama-era health reforms, a broad coalition of organizations and advocacy groups is pushing the state Legislature to enact a series of bills designed to expand health coverage in California and make it more affordable. Labor unions, women's groups, medical organizations and immigrant and community activists are part of the more than 50 members of the Care4All California coalition. The top of their agenda is expanding Medi-Cal eligibility to all undocumented immigrants and increasing subsidies for people who purchase health insurance plans through the Covered California exchange.
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The Hill
President Trump's proposed tariffs on goods from China could lead to higher prescription drug costs in the U.S., pharmaceutical groups warn. The Trump administration's list of Chinese-manufactured products that could be slapped with a 25 percent tariff includes many ingredients used to manufacture drugs such as insulin, antidepressants and the antiallergic-reaction drug epinephrine
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