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Los Angeles Times
Regional differences have long been a hallmark of American healthcare. But the gap between blue and red states has yawned wider in the 10 years of political battles that followed passage of the 2010 health law, often called Obamacare.
Now, the coronavirus crisis threatens to widen disparities further as tens of millions of Americans lose jobs and health coverage.
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KMBC-TV
Kansas lawmakers blocked a plan to expand Medicaid. It was one of the bigger surprises coming out of Topeka this week. Many thought expanding Medicaid would pass because both Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and a top Republican leader in the Senate crafted a deal.
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KXII-TV
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill Thursday designed to fund his own Medicaid expansion plan, leaving it unclear how his proposal would be paid for.
The bill would have increased a fee that hospitals pay from 2.5% to 4% and was expected to generate about $134 million annually to help fund the state's portion of Stitt's proposed Medicaid expansion, dubbed Soonercare 2.0.
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The Kansas City Star
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft announced Friday afternoon that an initiative petition seeking to expand Medicaid eligibility has collected enough signatures to be placed on the November ballot.
And because Ashcroft expedited the process of verifying signatures using random sampling instead of sending them to local election authorities, Gov. Mike Parson could still move the issue off of the November ballot and place it on the August primary ballot.
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Improper Medicaid payments, such as for ineligible patients or for services not provided, were
estimated to be $36.2 billion in fiscal 2018, accounting for 9.8% of Medicaid spending. There is growing pressure on MCO payers to prevent inaccurate payments before they happen to avoid loss of federal funds.
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WHYY-TV
A paycheck isn't the only thing workers are losing in the wake of layoffs and business closures across Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. For many, job loss comes along with the end of employer-provided health insurance. That, or a drop in income that bumps those previously making too much to qualify for Medicaid into its eligibility bracket, has resulted in exponential increases in public health insurance enrollment in all three states since the start of the pandemic.
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The Texas Tribune
Texas had the highest uninsured rate of any state before the outbreak. It's also among a minority of states that have declined to expand Medicaid coverage to people with incomes near or below the poverty line.
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The Joplin Globe
A healthcare bill approved on the final day of the Missouri Legislature's 2020 legislative session is designed to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage to women up to a year after giving birth.
House Bill 1682, an omnibus healthcare bill sponsored by Rep. David Wood, R-Versailles, included an amendment sponsored by Sen. Jill Schupp, D-St. Louis, that extends coverage for new moms in the event they suffer from postpartum depression or other mental health issues.
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The Kansas City Star
As they lose millions each month from the COVID-19 pandemic, Missouri's children's hospitals may have to brace for cuts to Medicaid reimbursements totaling as much as $140 million.
The issue involves payments to hospitals for patients from out of state. Missouri is the only state that supplements the reimbursements to narrow the difference between the patient's home state Medicaid rate and Missouri's.
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AJMC
Being uninsured carries with it a host of adverse health consequences, including more advanced stages of disease when seeing a physician, avoidable deaths and not receiving lifesaving treatments for conditions such as heart failure.
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Cancer Network
A study published in JAMA Oncology suggested that Medicaid expansion could have survival benefits for men with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which could possibly be attributable to improved insurance coverage and early-stage diagnosis. However, this same association pattern was not observed for women.
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