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MHPA
The Health Insurance Tax (HIT) has significant and serious implications for state Medicaid programs and Medicaid beneficiaries. On Wednesday, MHPA sent a letter to Congressional leadership expressing concern over the Health Insurance Tax (HIT) and asking for Congress to quickly work towards a full repeal or, at the very least, a multiyear delay of the tax.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
Backed by President Donald Trump, Republicans in Congress have made several runs at changing Medicaid from an entitlement program — open to anybody who is eligible — to a program with a spending limit. They have failed.
But that hasn't stopped some red states, with the encouragement of Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services, from making their own attempts to put historic limits on the federal-state health program for the poor, which covers more than 72 million U.S. residents.
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HealthLeaders Media
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who previously blocked Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas, heard arguments Tuesday on whether he should similarly toss out the federal government's approval of such requirements in New Hampshire.
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The Advocate
After two rounds of quarterly wage checks that are part of a new eligibility system for Louisiana's Medicaid program, the number of people enrolled in Medicaid expansion in the state has fallen by nearly 51,000 people.
Data released this week by the Louisiana Department of Health shows the Medicaid expansion enrollment has fallen from a high of 505,503 in April to 454,638 as of July 2.
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InsuranceNewsNet.com
A University of Michigan study on the connection between expanded Medicaid coverage and mortality rates finds that a sizeable number of people are alive today because of the coverage.
The study on the relationship between Medicaid enrollment and mortality finds a 0.13 percentage point decline in annual mortality, a 9.3% reduction over the sample mean, associated with Medicaid expansion. The effect is driven by a reduction in disease-related deaths and grows over time.
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Becker's Hospital Review
For every dollar invested in low-income children's healthcare and education, the federal government earns back a net return of $0.47 over time, according to the findings of a new Harvard study featured by The Wall Street Journal.
The study examined 133 policies implemented over the past 50 years in terms of economic payoff. Some of the policies reviewed include Medicare, Medicaid expansion, housing programs and unemployment insurance.
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The Dispatch
Mississippi Hospital Association has a plan in the works to reform the Medicaid program in the state under the Affordable Care Act and expand health care coverage, Tim Moore, president and CEO of Mississippi Hospital Association, told Starkville Rotarians at their regular meeting Monday. The plan, MississippiCares, seeks to assist non-disabled Mississippians between the ages of 19 and 64 who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but don't earn enough to be eligible for Affordable Care Act Marketplace premium tax credits. Between 163,000 and 300,000 Mississippians are affected.
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The Associated Press
The chairman of a committee that oversees Missouri's Medicaid program was replaced amid a steep drop in people receiving health care through the program.
Timothy McBride, who was appointed chairman of the MoHealthNet Oversight Committee in 2013 by Democratic then-Gov. Jay Nixon, said he was removed from the panel in May, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Todd Richardson, director of the state’s MO HealthNet Division, told him he was being replaced.
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The Associated Press via KOKH-TV
A group seeking a statewide vote on whether to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands of low-income Oklahomans is organizing volunteers after receiving the date for when they can begin gathering signatures.
The group Oklahomans Decide Healthcare said Wednesday they've been notified by state officials that the 90-day signature gathering window will begin on July 31. Supporters will need to gather nearly 178,000 signatures from registered voters in order to get the question on the ballot.
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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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Winston-Salem Journal
Republican leadership in the North Carolina House chose Wednesday to continue until next week its waiting game on when to have a vote to potentially override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's state budget veto.
As has been the pattern for 11 consecutive sessions, neither the veto override vote nor the bipartisan Medicaid expansion legislation House Bill 655 was addressed.
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News Service of Florida via WMBB-TV
A drive to expand Medicaid in Florida may be pushed back two years, as organizers try to figure out if they can muster the resources to put the issue on the 2020 ballot.
A spokesman for a political committee backing a proposed constitutional amendment — which comes after years of Florida lawmakers rejecting Medicaid expansion — said a final decision has not been made, but he acknowledged it may be difficult to meet state-imposed deadlines to take the issue to voters in 2020.
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