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MHPA
The MHPA Membership and Meetings Committee is excited to announce MHPA19's Policy Track topics and the Operations Track RFP awardees. All concurrent breakout sessions are now posted, and over the next few days and weeks, we'll announce all of our panelists, moderators, and keynote speakers, too. Make sure to register today for MHPA19, Medicaid: Innovation at Work. For more information, please visit www.MedicaidConference.com.
The Eagle
Advocates are worried about two Medicaid programs that need additional funding before the end of the fiscal year — U.S. territories' programs and funding for safety net hospitals.
The end of September marks a number of government deadlines, but advocates and government officials worry that a lack of funding for these two Medicaid programs would be worrisome and could be overlooked.
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Governing
Public-sector unions, struck last year by a U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended their ability to charge non-members fees, suffered another blow this month when the Trump administration blocked hundreds of thousands of Medicaid-funded home health aides from deducting union dues from their paychecks. California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington state and, separately, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) sued the Trump administration earlier this month over the new regulation, which they say also will stop the workers from making payroll deductions for health insurance premiums and training costs.
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Crain's New York Business
Rep. Eliot Engel, a Democrat who represents New York's 16th congressional district, encompassing parts of the Bronx and Westchester County, has introduced legislation that would repeal mandated cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments.
Safety-net hospitals that serve high numbers of low-income and uninsured patients will face a financial shortfall of $4 billion in fiscal 2020 and $8 billion in fiscal 2021, should the cuts take place Oct. 1 as scheduled.
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The Lewiston Tribune
An Idaho legislative interim committee has scheduled four meetings between now and November, with the first June 17, to "evaluate the effectiveness of Medicaid eligibility expansion and its impact on the financial obligation of the counties and the state in providing indigent assistance."
Medicaid expansion already is funded for its first year, the fiscal year that starts July 1, without tapping the state general fund; instead, the funding will come from the Millennium Fund that was created with tobacco settlement proceeds, and from savings in the Corrections and Health & Welfare budgets.
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AL.com
Georgiana Mayor Jerome Antone remains perplexed over what will become of his small Alabama Black Belt community after the hospital closed in February. Gone were 100 jobs, and the tax base that came with having a hospital operating in the city for 60 years. Only about a half-dozen businesses remain in the city where the median household income is below $20,000 a year.
The closure didn't come as a huge surprise: The medical center was hemorrhaging red ink, and millions had been lost the previous year alone because of the number of uninsured patients arriving to the complex in search of care.
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The Oklahoman
The Oklahoma Legislature adjourned last week without taking action on expanding health coverage to 100,000 uninsured, low-income residents.
Gov. Kevin Stitt may be partly responsible.
In the first legislative session of his first term, he could only accomplish so much and tackling Medicaid expansion or other coverage for uninsured Oklahomans didn't make the shortlist.
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The Associated Press via KTUL-TV
The Oklahoma Supreme Court should reject a proposed petition to expand Medicaid because the summary contradicts the body of the petition concerning income eligibility for the public health insurance program, according to the state's attorney general's office.
The petition was filed on behalf of two residents in April. The proposed question would modify Oklahoma's constitution to extend the federal-state health insurance program "to certain low-income adults between the ages of 18 and 65 whose income does not exceed 133% of the federal poverty level."
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The Gazette
More of Iowa's children are moving out of Medicaid for their health insurance coverage and into private insurance, according to new research.
A report by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center, or SHADAC, shows fewer children living in Iowa are uninsured, and new data from 2017 indicates their parents may be getting health care coverage from employer-based insurance plans.
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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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KRWG-FM
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday announced her plan to increase Medicaid hospital reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient services by $168.7 million effective July 1.
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Winston-Salem Journal
The Republican Senate leadership unveiled Tuesday a state budget proposal for 2019-21 that — as expected — does not expand Medicaid.
The possibility of expanding Medicaid to between 450,000 and 650,000 North Carolinians has become perhaps the most contentious legislative issue.
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