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The Advocate
Louisiana's health department was blocked from moving forward with a new round of multibillion-dollar Medicaid contracts while protests from losing bidders move forward, over objections from health officials who said such a delay could disrupt health care for more than a million people.
The state procurement office, which is considering protests from two losing bidders for the new round of Medicaid managed care contracts, decided late Wednesday the new contracts will be put on hold until it sorts out the challenges.
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Winston-Salem Journal
The North Carolina House gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a bill that would free up $218 million in startup funding to revamp the state's Medicaid program.
House Bill 555 has been the subject of a "gut-and-amend" strategy, starting as telemedicine legislation, then being remade with much of the Medicaid reform language in the Republican state budget compromise.
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KYTV-TV
When he was in Springfield recently Missouri Gov. Mike Parson spoke of revamping the state's health care system, emphasizing eliminating Medicaid fraud. One aspect of the current system has become very divisive, mainly along Democratic and Republic party lines, but it revolves around the number of people who've had their Medicaid health insurance discontinued.
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Vermont Public Radio
Vermont state regulators told Gov. Phil Scott Friday afternoon that the future of health care reform is in peril if he doesn't increase funding for Vermont's Medicaid program.
In a letter sent to Scott, Kevin Mullin, chairman of the Green Mountain Care Board, said double-digit increases in private health insurance premiums are the latest symptom of the so-called "Medicaid cost shift." A failure to mitigate that cost shift by upping state support for the Medicaid program, Mullin wrote, "threatens Vermont's transition from fee-for-service to value-based payments."
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The Hill
Medicaid advocates in Nebraska have filed a lawsuit to try to force state officials to offer coverage sooner than the official 2020 rollout date.
According to the lawsuit filed Wednesday by Nebraska Appleseed, the state will miss out on approximately $149 million in federal funding by delaying implementation of Medicaid expansion until Oct. 1, 2020.
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WFPL-FM
Kentucky has the third highest rate in the country for Medicaid prescriptions of buprenorphine, a drug that helps treat people with an addiction to opioids.
A study released last week by the Urban Institute shows that in 2018, Kentucky Medicaid enrollees filled 659,629 prescriptions for buprenorphine. That averages out to about 662 prescriptions per 1,000 enrollees ages 12 and older.
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mHealthIntelligence
California's Department of Health Care Services has made some significant changes to its telehealth and mHealth coverage, giving both residents and providers new opportunities to embrace connected health care.
In a notice that became official in July but was made public this month, the CDHCS, which oversees the Medi-Cal Medicaid program and several managed care plans, announced three major adjustments to its coverage guidelines.
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Alaska Journal of Commerce
About three years after starting the process, Alaska is finally moving forward with a plan to try something different with behavioral health patients on Medicaid in an effort to reduce costs.
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has been in the process of applying for a Section 1115 waiver through the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services since 2017 under former Gov. Bill Walker, which would allow the state to use Medicaid funding on nontraditional services for patients with behavioral health and substance use disorders.
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Worcester Business Journal
Enrollment in the Massachusetts Medicaid health coverage program has fallen by 9.4% in the past two years at least in part due to a shift in how students are covered for health treatment.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Amerigroup Texas in now offering Medicaid recipients telehealth visits for medical and behavioral healthcare at no cost.
Amerigroup Texas, which administers Medicaid benefits to Texas residents under healthcare insurer Amerigroup, launched the virtual care services Aug. 1. The telehealth service can be accessed online through Amerigroup's LiveHealth Online platform using a smartphone, tablet or computer that has a web cam.
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