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Modern Healthcare
The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court to revive Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas.
HHS and the Justice Department told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the agency properly reviewed the Section 1115 proposals and that the work requirements are policy experiments that support Medicaid's mission, arguments the federal district judge rejected in both cases.
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Lewiston Morning Tribune
Idaho officials could hear in the next few weeks whether a voter-approved plan to expand Medicaid eligibility has been accepted by the federal government.
It will take several more months, however, to learn the fate of the work requirements and other restrictions state lawmakers adopted during the 2019 legislative session.
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Register-Herald
Crisis workers would be available for frazzled parents by phone.
Therapists would offer counseling for not only kids, but the entire family, in their own homes.
Case workers would ask about more than what kind of medication a child takes, or whether they're in counseling.
They'd also make sure that overwhelmed parents have access to a baby-sitter.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
Enrollment in Utah’s partially expanded Medicaid program has grown to roughly 29,000 low-income residents, the state's Medicaid director said, with new applications screened on a "day-by-day" basis.
Between 70,000 and 90,000 Utahns are estimated to be eligible for the program, which provides healthcare coverage to those earning up to 100% of the federal poverty level.
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HFI’s mission is to partner with healthcare clients to improve their fiscal health by advocating for their most vulnerable members. HFI helps members get necessary benefits and income affording them access to important social determinants of health.
We effectively identify and reclassify eligible super-utilizers from TANF/ACA to ABD.
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The Austin Chronicle
Just in time for Mother's Day, the Texas House gave final approval to legislation that could help new moms with surviving often challenging postpartum life, marking the first major step toward implementing recommendations from the state's Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force. The group spent two years studying the staggering maternal death rate in Texas, finding that extending healthcare coverage provided to mothers after giving birth should be a main priority.
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The Indianapolis Star
For many needy Hoosiers on Medicaid, a job offer may pose a dilemma.
Accepting could mean a bigger paycheck, but it also could mean losing their state health insurance and having to pay more for coverage.
Indiana could become the first state to offer up to $1,000 over 12 months to soften the pinch of whatever healthcare costs Medicaid recipients incur as they transition to jobs that pay too much to receive benefits.
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Miami Herald
Louisiana's legislative auditor is suing the state revenue department, trying to gain access to income tax records as he reviews Medicaid patients' eligibility.
Auditor Daryl Purpera filed the lawsuit this month in Baton Rouge district court.
The Baton Rouge Business Report says Purpera is asking a judge to force Revenue Secretary Kimberly Robinson to turn over tax data, claiming that's authorized under existing law.
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Albuquerque Journal
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a $60 million plan aimed at enhancing access to healthcare in the state and halting rising commercial health insurance rates by increasing Medicaid reimbursements rates for medical and other health providers. Her administration is proposing to leverage $13 million in state general funds to combine with a near $47 million federal match to increase rates for physicians and other health professionals who have sustained several years of decreases in reimbursements for care of the estimated 832,000 New Mexicans, or 40% of the state's population, enrolled in the state's Medicaid program.
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The Associated Press
Call it Medicaid reform, not Medicaid expansion.
That's part of the Mississippi Hospital Association's latest effort to get Republicans to accept federal money and provide health insurance to now-uninsured adults.
The association unveiled a plan it calls Mississippi Cares. By combining payments from people who get coverage and hospitals, the association says Mississippi can avoid spending any of its own tax dollars to match federal money.
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Kaiser Family Foundation
Medicaid funds typically cannot be used to pay for non-medical interventions that target the social determinants of health. However, in October 2018, CMS approved North Carolina's Section 1115 waiver which provides financing for a new pilot program, called "Healthy Opportunities Pilots," to cover evidence-based non-medical services that address specific social needs linked to health/health outcomes.
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