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MHPA
The Medicaid Health Plans of America appreciates the opportunity to comment
on the proposed rules issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the
Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology intended to work
together to facilitate access to electronic health information for patients and to help solve issues
related to interoperability.
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Vox
State spending on Medicaid is still stubbornly high, with no sign of ebbing, even though we are in the midst of the longest period of economic recovery in recent memory.
That was one of the remarkable findings in a forthcoming analysis from The Pew Charitable Trusts, which documents a "lost decade" for state finances after the Great Recession. In 2016, Medicaid accounted for 17.1 percent of state budgets, up from 14.3 percent in 2007, and that share has been rising, not falling, since the recovery began.
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CNN
The expansion of the Medicaid program — a major part of the Affordable Care Act — has helped black cancer patients receive more timely treatment in states where expansion took place, according to new research.
The research, presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in Chicago, suggests that the implementation of Medicaid expansions has played a role in reducing some racial disparities in access to cancer care.
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The Hill
Utah's Republican governor on Friday unveiled a Medicaid overhaul proposal that would cap how much the federal government spends on each recipient, a long-held conservative goal, setting up a test for the Trump administration on whether to approve the change.
At the same time, Utah is seeking to bring in more federal funding for a partial expansion of Medicaid.
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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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Des Moines Register
The ACLU of Iowa lodged another challenge in the yearslong battle over transgender Iowans' right to use Medicaid funds for transition-related care by suing Friday to block an Iowa law that specifically denies that coverage.
The suit is in response to legislation passed in the waning days of the session that allows government entities to opt out of using public insurance dollars, including Medicaid, to pay for transition-related surgeries. It was filed on behalf of two transgender Iowans — Mika Covington of central Iowa and Aiden Vasquez of southeast Iowa — and LGBTQ advocacy group One Iowa.
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Georgia Health News via Atlanta Daily World
Georgia's Medicaid and PeachCare programs covered 20,000 fewer children at the end of 2018 than the year before, a new report says.
That 1.6 percent drop is less than an overall 2.2 percent decline in enrollment nationally, according to the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
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WSAU-FM
The Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to remove a provision from Gov. Tony Evers' budget, to accept $1.6 billion in new federal funding for Medicaid expansion in the state.
Evers continues to insist that's not the end of it.
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WPEC-TV
A proposed constitutional amendment that would expand eligibility for the Medicaid program has passed a key initial threshold, readying it for review by the Florida Supreme Court.
The political committee Florida Decides Healthcare, Inc., had submitted 81,690 valid petition signatures to the state Division of Elections as of Monday morning, topping a 76,632-signature threshold that triggers a Supreme Court review, according to information on the state elections website.
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KUAM-TV
A bill that could mean tens of millions of dollars in additional Medicaid funding for Guam now just needs the president's signature. Gov. Leon Guerrero, who lobbied in Washington, D.C., for a special provision in the measure, welcomed the news as much needed relief for the local healthcare system.
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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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The Advocate
Louisiana lawmakers have backed an expansion of the Medicaid program to cover people who make too much money to qualify but who have children with disabilities, after changing the measure to have no effect on the state budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
The TEFRA program would expand access to health insurance to roughly 1,600 people, and would cost about $9 million a year to the state and $18 million a year to the federal government, according to estimates attached to the bill.
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WFPL-FM
Kentucky schools could soon get assistance from the federal government to help pay for school counselors and other health providers.
Cabinet for Health and Family Services Deputy Secretary Kristi Putnam told legislators Monday that the state is asking the federal government for permission to allow Kentucky schools to bill Medicaid when a school counselor or other health provider treats a Medicaid-enrolled student.
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