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The Hill
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has provided $72 billion to help hospitals and clinics stay afloat during the pandemic, but Medicaid providers — including mental health and substance use clinics, disability care providers and children's doctors — have seen very little of that money. Instead, most of the funding has gone to providers participating in Medicare, the federal health care program for seniors. Providers that primarily serve the nation's 70 million low-income Medicaid patients have been left out of the funding equation.
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The National Law Review
The economic downturn brought on by COVID-19 has resulted in a huge rise in unemployment, and with it, the loss of employer-based health insurance coverage. Many of these unemployed, able-bodied adults between the ages of 55 and 64 are having difficulty obtaining affordable health insurance coverage, especially in states which have not expanded Medicaid.
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Health Payer Intelligence
Extending postpartum Medicaid insurance could make postpartum healthcare more affordable for new mothers and improve health outcomes, a recent report from the Urban Institute found. "Uninsured new mothers report trouble affording care and have both physical and mental health needs that would benefit from the more consistent access to coverage and care that expanding Medicaid would provide," the report stated. "These findings are particularly relevant given the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis, which will put even more women at risk of uninsurance and in need of affordable coverage options before, during, and after pregnancy."
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KCUR-FM
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced that the question of whether to expand Medicaid will be placed on the August primary ballot, a move he said is more about "policy" than politics. Parson said expanding Medicaid to insure more low-income people will be a "massive spending initiative" and the state needs to know where it stands financially. "Pass or fail, it is important that we understand the implications of what would be a new spending bill out of our already depleted general revenue," Parson said at his regular press briefing.
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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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The Associated Press via KTVO-TV
A second lawsuit has been filed against a ballot proposal to expand Medicaid health care eligibility to thousands more low-income adults. Conservative advocacy group United for Missouri announced it's suing the limited-government group's lawsuit against the Secretary of State's office to take the measure off the Aug. 4 ballot. The limited-government group says the measure would expand who is eligible for Medicaid in Missouri but doesn't include a source to pay for that.
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KOTV-DT
Medicaid expansion supporters in Oklahoma launched a statewide push ahead of the state question vote in June. The main goal for what the campaign calls "community check-ins" is to get Medicaid expansion passed. The state question that could make it happen is on the primary ballot in late June. If passed, it would expand Medicaid to cover 200,000 Oklahomans.
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Public News Service
Some West Virginians may not be aware that if they've lost their jobs and employer-provided health insurance due to COVID-19, they could be eligible for coverage under the state's Medicaid expansion. A family of four making less than about $3,000 a month can qualify for Medicaid in West Virginia, which now provides health insurance for about one in three residents, according to Jessie Ice, executive director of West Virginians for Affordable Health Care. She said if you're collecting unemployment benefits, the federal portion of $600 a week doesn't count towards household income for Medicaid eligibility.
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Wyoming Tribune Eagle
As Wyoming lawmakers prepare for the likelihood of more special sessions in coming months, Medicaid expansion likely won't be a topic up for immediate consideration in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposal to expand Medicaid to uninsured people whose income is at or below 138% of the federal poverty level is not a new one in the Wyoming Legislature. In February, lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected an introductory proposal authorizing Gov. Mark Gordon to explore expansion.
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The State Journal-Register via Herald & Review
Illinois will become the first state to provide Medicaid for undocumented seniors not only because of what state Rep. Delia Ramirez has heard from her constituents, but because of her own family's experience. Tucked in near the end of the 465-page budget implementation bill that passed the Illinois General Assembly recently was a provision giving Medicaid access to noncitizens over 65 years old and whose income is $12,670 or less, which is at or under the federal poverty level. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he will approve next year's budget and its implementations. Medicaid services for qualified undocumented seniors will kick in July 1 when the 2021 budget year begins.
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KRMG-FM
Attorney General Mike Hunter sent a letter to nursing homes and assisted living facilities statewide to inform administrators that taking Medicaid recipients' COVID-19 stimulus funds is illegal. According to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the economic impact payments are considered a tax credit, therefore exempt from federal benefits programs such as Medicaid.
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