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MHPA
MHPA is proud to announce our Annual Conference's CEO and Executive Leadership keynote panel will include Cain Hayes of Gateway Health, Catherine Anderson of UnitedHealthcare Community & State, and Wendy Morriarty of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. The discussion will be moderated by Rachana Pradhan of Politico.
MHPA is also happy to announce Jami Snyder, Director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, will join the Medicaid Directors keynote session. Register today for MHPA19!
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Modern Healthcare
The CMS wants to lower states' requirements for showing that their Medicaid fee-for-service payment rates are adequate to enlist enough providers to offer beneficiaries satisfactory access to care. The rule proposed Thursday would rescind a 2015 Obama administration rule requiring states to file an access monitoring review plan and update it at least every three years.
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Tampa Bay Times
State economists said Friday that about 260,000 low-income, childless Floridians would enroll in the Medicaid program if it were expanded. That figure is, on average, about 44 percent of the roughly 600,000 people who would qualify for the Medicaid program if it were expanded as allowable under the federal health care law commonly called "Obamacare."
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Spectrum News 13
The debate over Medicaid expansion is long past over in Tallahassee, with Republican leaders turning down federal money to cover hundreds of thousands of uninsured Floridians.
But now, health care activists are working to take the issue to the voters with a Medicaid expansion ballot measure.
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KSMU-FM
Missouri lawmakers have, for years, decided against the part of the Affordable Care Act that would expand Medicaid — the government health care program for low-income residents. So now, activists are trying to do it themselves — by collecting signatures to get the issue on the 2020 statewide ballot.
Activists say they added nearly 400 more signatures to their total at a Springfield parade earlier this month.
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The Associated Press via The Herald
Indiana has become the latest state to implement work requirements for low-income residents who receive their health insurance through Medicaid — a change that opponents warn will cost some under resourced Hoosiers their health coverage.
The state's Gateway to Work program began July 1. The new program will require an estimated 72,000 people to report their work hours or other activity to the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration in order to keep their coverage, WFYI-FM reported.
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KPAX-TV
Next week's hearings on key changes to Montana's $750 million-a-year Medicaid expansion program have been delayed for two weeks, state health officials said.
Health officials said they rescheduled the hearings at the request of the federal government, which wanted to give Montanans more time to examine the proposed changes in the program that provides health coverage to nearly 100,000 low-income Montanans.
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Winston-Salem Journal
One of the most ambitious initiatives in the state Medicaid program was launched Monday with the start of the enrollment period for the Triad and Triangle.
Medicaid serves 2.1 million North Carolinians. Of that total, 1.6 million will be enrolled in managed care under a federal waiver approved in October.
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WFYI-TV
Indiana moves to help Hoosiers quit smoking with a new order signed in Indianapolis. The changes also include efforts to help pregnant mothers kick the habit.
The order will allow any Hoosier to obtain medication to help quit smoking without a prescription. Indiana State Health Commissioner Kristina Box says Indiana becomes the 12th state to adopt such a policy.
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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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Kentucky Health News via The Gleaner
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin gave a vigorous defense of his plan to require work or other activities by "able-bodied" adults without dependents who are on Medicaid in an interview at the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce's Business Summit and Annual Meeting.
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Reuters
A bill that would substantially boost federal Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico advanced out of a U.S. House subcommittee on Thursday after lawmakers agreed to work on stricter safeguards in the wake of a government corruption scandal in the territory.
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