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The Hill
Texas is reeling from Hurricane Harvey, with thousands of residents displaced by flood waters and a climbing death toll. But the dangers go beyond the rising waters, as the storm brings an array of public health dangers, from mosquitoes to mold. Here are five public health threats facing authorities in Houston.
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Healthcare Finance
Healthcare spending growth slowed in 2016, and the trend appears to be continuing, according to the August 2017 Altarum Institute Center Health Sector Trend report. According to the report, spending grew by only 4.6 percent in 2016 and estimates based on new data have the downward trend continuing with growth for the first half of 2017 at 4.4 percent.
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Health Affairs
To make the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion more politically palatable, a number of conservative states have used 1115 Medicaid demonstration waivers to implement personal responsibility focused policies. These waivers have been used, for example, to charge Medicaid recipients premiums and to institute cost sharing above statutory limits.
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WFPL-FM
Amanda Mills, who has insurance through Kentucky's expanded Medicaid program but also has a full-time job working with homeless people in Louisville, is one of the many people in Kentucky who are considered working poor. She is also a sort of ideal as envisioned by Gov. Matt Bevin's proposed changes to the expanded Medicaid program: She has a full-time job that offers health insurance, and she is moving off Medicaid.
Bevin is seeking to use expanded Medicaid as a sort of incentive to push recipients to work, even though many already do. The work requirement is not a new idea, but if it's approved, it would mark a fundamental shift in the way Medicaid benefits are disbursed.
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Saint Peters Blog
Hillsborough County Democratic lawmakers Wednesday called on Gov. Rick Scott and the GOP-led Congress to reject potential cuts to Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). President Donald Trump's budget plans unveiled earlier this year would reduce the Children’s Health Insurance Program by at least 20 percent over the next two fiscal years and slash Medicaid, which covers millions of children.
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California Healthline
As the opioid epidemic burns a path of devastation through communities across the nation, California is leading the way in revamping treatment for low-income residents. Before this year, the state's Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, covered only limited and episodic care. Now, it pays for a much broader range of treatment including expanded access to medications, inpatient beds, individual therapy and case managers.
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Georgia Health News
A healthcare consultant and former deputy commissioner of the Department of Community Health has been named the new chief of Georgia Medicaid. Blake Fulenwider will also become a deputy commissioner of Community Health, effective Sept. 15, the agency said Tuesday.
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