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North Carolina Health News
The standoff between North Carolina's state government power brokers over the state budget and Medicaid expansion has grabbed a victim: the planned rollout this fall of Medicaid managed care.
N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Sec. Mandy Cohen announced Tuesday morning she made the decision to delay the Nov. 1 start date of Medicaid managed care. She said this was due to the uncertainty caused by the lack of a state budget more than 60 days into the fiscal year.
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The Washington Post
When onetime governor Mike Pence and consultant Seema Verma ran Indiana's conservative health care system, they found a creative way to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act when many other red states rejected it.
Now, with Pence as vice president and Verma as the head of the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs, Indiana is again blazing its own path on health care, with the Trump administration's avid encouragement.
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Winston-Salem Journal
North Carolina's ambitious Medicaid transformation rollout may be in limbo after Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed Friday a bill that provides $218 million in critical startup funding.
House Bill 555 became the eighth bill that Cooper has vetoed, with just one (Senate Bill 359, titled "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act") subject to an override vote that failed 67-53 on June 5.
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Spokane Public Radio
Idaho state officials say they're surprised and disappointed by the federal government's response to the state's application for a Medicaid expansion waiver.
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rejected Idaho's request for a waiver of federal rules that would allow the Gem State to expand Medicaid.
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Boise State Public Radio
As Idaho lawmakers continue to debate how the state should pay for its voter-approved Medicaid expansion, hundreds of studies have shown many benefits to the program. The Kaiser Family Foundation has found increased coverage under the expansion has led to more early-stage cancer diagnoses, more access to mental health treatment and savings to states in other areas of the budget — like the criminal justice system.
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WRIC-TV via WAVY-TV
A gap in coverage will soon be filled for expecting and new moms in Virginia who are having trouble getting healthcare.
Last year, Medicaid qualifications were expanded for adult men and women between 19 and 64, who are not eligible for Medicare. Income requirements vary by family size.
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The Hill
A judge on Friday ruled that Alaska's Department of Health and Social Services may have declared an emergency that was the basis for cuts to the state's Medicaid program under false pretenses, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
In her ruling Friday, Superior Court Judge Jennifer Henderson said the lawsuit raised "at the very least, serious and substantial questions regarding DHSS' finding of emergency" and added that the court was "inclined to grant a preliminary injunction as to emergency regulations, because those regulations lack a necessary precondition, namely, an actual emergency."
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The Daily Reporter
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services recently received $500,000 from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to expand a program that integrates physical and behavioral health care services for Medicaid beneficiaries with serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance.
Currently, Behavioral Health Home is offered in Grand Traverse and Manistee counties. The additional funds will be used to modernize and expand BHH operations into several more counties to provide access to integrated services for an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 more Michiganders.
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WTEN-TV
New York State has moved from an hourly reimbursement rate to a monthly per person rate for fiscal intermediaries within the CDPA program.
The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program is a Medicaid program that provides services to chronically ill or physically disabled individuals.
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The Charlotte Observer
New Mexico is moving forward with efforts to bolster access to a variety of health care and dental services by increasing rates for Medicaid payments to physicians and other providers.
The Human Services Department on Tuesday announced it would raise reimbursements to health care providers as soon as Oct. 1.
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The Lund Report
Medicaid insurers and their members in two of Oregon's biggest markets — the Portland area and Lane County — are being dunked into a new world of competition and choice.
Over the next several months, the state-approved insurers for those two regions — Health Share of Oregon and Trillium Community Health Plan in Portland, and Trillium and PacificSource in Lane County — will compete with each other to enlist Medicaid members.
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