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MHPA
After a rigorous RFP process and an overwhelming number of responses, the MHPA Membership and Meetings Committee chose MHPA19’s five breakout workshops in the Technology track. Over the next few weeks, we’ll announce the Operations track awardees as well as the Policy track breakout workshops in addition to all of our panelists, moderators and keynote speakers.
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Modern Healthcare
An immigrant couple with two children recently asked Veronica Hernandez to write a letter for them canceling the family's Medicaid coverage because they feared that receiving public benefits would jeopardize the husband's legal status.
Other patients at Mary's Center, a community health center in Washington, D.C., who are political asylum seekers are refusing to apply for public health insurance or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program out of similar fears, said Hernandez, the center's program coordinator for bilingual health access.
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Governing
As the country grapples with increasing rates of maternal mortality, a new study from the Georgetown University Center of Health Policy found that one of the biggest things a state can do for the health of new mothers and babies is to expand Medicaid.
The United States is the only developed country where the maternal mortality rate has increased, doubling over the past two decades
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The Roanoke Times
Lawmakers studying mental health reforms in Virginia heard most children in need of services do not get them.
Virginia’s behavioral health care system for children is more complex than that for adults but is dogged by the same problems, with overcrowding at the state hospital, an increase in readmissions and a lack of services in the community.
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Insider Louisville
The Bevin and Trump administrations are pointing to work requirements already in use by food-aid programs like SNAP as a reason the U.S. Court of Appeals should reverse a decision to strike down Kentucky’s Medicaid overhaul.
In briefs recently filed, the state and federal government maintain that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar used proper judgment to approve the state’s Section 1115 waiver, which calls for certain able-bodied, non-elderly Medicaid recipients to work or engage in their communities 20 hours a week.
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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 Advocate
The Louisiana Department of Health has sent out a second round of letters to 17,000 Medicaid recipients warning the people they will be booted off the health insurance program unless they prove they qualify.
And the agency is urging people to respond, after kicking more than 30,000 people off the program at the end of March, the vast majority because they did not reply to the first round of letters.
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The Chicago Tribune
A legislative committee will soon begin seeing if there’s a way for Chicago-area hospitals that treat Region children to be paid the same rates as Indiana facilities.
The Indiana Legislative Council assigned a group of lawmakers to look at the potential of creating parity between Medicaid reimbursement paid to Indiana children’s hospitals versus that paid to out-of-state facilities.
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Georgetown University Health Policy Institue via KUER-FM
Across the country pregnancy-related maternal mortality has been on the rise in recent years.
In Utah, 40 women died of pregnancy-related deaths in 2015 and 2016, according to the state’s most recent data. Most of those deaths occurred in the month or so after birth. But one of the best ways Utah and other states can slow this increase is by expanding coverage of Medicaid health insurance for pregnant women, according to new research recently released.
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KOCO-TV
Thousands of people could lose their Medicaid coverage in Oklahoma because of a new rule.
Under the new rule, the Oklahoma Healthcare Authority sends mail to the address on a file for a SoonerCare recipient. If the mail comes back "return to sender," the state will terminate benefits for 30 days.
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So far, more than 6,000 SoonerCare accounts have had mail returned.
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The Daily Press
t’s been a year since Virginia lawmakers agreed to expand the state’s Medicaid program on the condition that the people getting the benefits would have to be working or show they’re trying to get a job.
But there’s no word on when those newly eligible low-income Virginians will be required to show proof of work to get the federal health insurance. The state says it could be two more years, and Republicans are getting antsy.
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American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Medicaid expansions following the Affordable Care Act have improved insurance coverage in low-income adults, but little is known about its impact on cancer screening. This study examined associations between Medicaid expansion timing and colorectal cancer (CRC) and breast cancer (BC) screening.
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A commercial Medicaid plan in Nevada leveraged MCG solutions in its community health program and reduced ER visits by 20% and hospital readmissions by 30%. Click here to learn more about how MCG can support improved member outcomes and cost control.
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Kaiser Family Foundation
This brief provides an overview of the status of the health care systems and Medicaid programs in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) about one and a half years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck the islands in September 2017. The hurricanes exacerbated the territories’ existing economic and health care challenges by accelerating outmigration of residents and health care providers and destroying homes, schools, health care facilities and other infrastructure.
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