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The Hill
President Donald Trump will propose massive cuts to the Medicaid program for fiscal year 2018, according to a budget document posted by the Department of Health and Human Services. In total, the budget proposes cutting Medicaid spending by $610 billion over 10 years. That's on top of more than $800 billion in cuts called for under the House-passed Obamacare repeal bill, the American Health Care Act.
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The Hill
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was pressed Tuesday about President Donald Trump's broken campaign promise not to cut Medicaid to reduce healthcare costs. Trump's budget, released Tuesday, includes $1.4 trillion in cuts to Medicaid over 10 years, thought the president promised repeatedly while campaigning that he wouldn't slash Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits for current recipients.
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STAT
President Donald Trump released his new budget proposal Tuesday, and it includes a $610 billion cut over 10 years to the Medicaid budget. That proposal is in addition to the $839 billion cut written into the American Health Care Act, should the bill become law. It was passed by the House earlier this month. That's far from a sure thing, given big questions about the Senate's plans for healthcare reform.
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Modern Healthcare
Joe Moser, a key architect of Indiana's alternative Medicaid expansion program has stepped down from his role as the state's Medicaid director. Moser was appointed by then-Gov. Mike Pence in 2013 and oversaw the care of more than 1.5 million Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program enrollees. Moser told Modern Healthcare he has no plans to work with the Trump administration, but would be open to that possibility. He decided to leave Indiana's Medicaid agency in order to pursue new opportunities.
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Politico
The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation plan to release a score of the House-passed Obamacare repeal bill on Wednesday afternoon, the CBO said in a blog post Friday. The Senate parliamentarian can't review the legislation and the GOP cannot start writing its healthcare bill in the upper chamber until the CBO scoring is complete. Savings under the Senate version has to at least equal savings under the House bill — otherwise the measure would violate budget rules and the GOP repeal effort would come to a swift end.
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Kaiser Health News
New York Medicaid regulators aim to use the threat of imposing increased scrutiny of prescription drugs — such as eyeing their relative effectiveness and their profit margins — to coax additional discounts from drugmakers. The rules, signed into law in mid-April as part of the state's budget, don't go as far as the surcharge that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo originally sought to control the "skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs," but they retain elements guaranteed to get under a pharmaceutical executive's skin.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Louisiana lawmakers Monday added $368 million in federal funding to the health department budget to keep from running out of money for the state's Medicaid expansion program, which has grown beyond expectations in its first year. The Louisiana Department of Health has enrolled more people than projected in Medicaid expansion since Gov. John Bel Edwards kicked off the program in July 2016, and those signing up for the free insurance coverage are older and costlier patients than expected.
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Health Affairs
As part of Iowa's Medicaid expansion, the Healthy Behaviors Program was designed to provide members with incentives to complete specified healthy activities in return for waiving monthly premiums. Researchers used claims data and interviews to document the first year (2014) of the program's implementation. Healthy activities completion rates did not exceed 17 percent.
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