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The News-Star
More than 30,000 people in northeastern Louisiana stand to receive healthcare coverage when the state begins its Medicaid expansion on July 1.
"This is the easiest big decision I'll make as governor," Gov. John Bel Edwards told a packed auditorium at St. Francis Medical Center Wednesday. Edwards and Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Rebekah Gee visited Monroe in promoting the expansion of the federal program in Louisiana.
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North Carolina Health News
With officials from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services wrapping up work on an overhaul of the state's Medicaid program this week, lawmakers, physicians and patient advocates gathered at the General Assembly Wednesday to push for Medicaid expansion to be included in the state's reform plan.
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting
In 2013, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin chose to expand the state's Medicaid program, providing healthcare coverage for 150,000 more West Virginians. Up until this point, Medicaid expansion has had no impact on the state's budget. That's because from 2013-2016, the federal government paid for 100 percent of the additional people covered by Medicaid due to the expansion. For West Virginia, that federal funding totaled 700 million dollars. But next year, the Medicaid expansion agreement between states and the federal government will begin to change.
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Juneau Empire
The state of Alaska has suspended Medicaid payments to hospitals and clinics amid a continuing budget impasse in the legislature, but the state's director of healthcare services said the two events are unrelated. On Wednesday, in a letter emailed to healthcare providers, healthcare services director Margaret Brodie said it is "necessary for us to temporarily pend some Medicaid claims while Medicaid funds are reallocated among accounts."
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The Hill
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania) is calling on the state department to pressure China to crack down on the export of fentanyl, the deadly opioid. Fentanyl, which is more potent than heroin, is seen as a rising danger in the national crisis of opioid overdoses.
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The Week
Medicaid managers have done little to stem rampant fraud in the massive government health care program for the poor, which totaled more than $29 billion last year, according to a new Government Accountability Office report to Congress. As Medicaid gradually transforms from a traditional fee-for-service operation to managed care, the challenge for federal and state Medicaid officials to weed out fraudulent applicants or healthcare providers has become increasingly difficult.
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MHPA
Visit the new event website for details about MHPA's annual conference in September.
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Inside Health Policy (Subscription required)
MHPA's Jeff Myers comments on the Advancing Care for Exceptional (ACE) Kids Act of 2015
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