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The Hill
According to new data from the Census Bureau, the uninsured rate fell to 9.1 percent in 2015. The Census Bureau has found a significant drop in the uninsured rate since 2013, before Obamacare's coverage expansion went into effect. In 2013, the uninsured rate was 13.3 percent. The difference between then and 2015 translates to roughly 13 million people gaining insurance, as the number of uninsured people fell from about 42 million to about 29 million.
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Beacon Health Options
On Friday, Sept. 16, Beacon Health Options employees, friends and family will embark on the Awesome Beacon Bike Ride, a 2,000-mile cycling journey from Boston to Miami. Throughout the 30-day trip, riders will serve as "spokes" men and women to raise awareness about the stigma surrounding mental illness.
Beacon is also sponsoring the ride to raise funds for the Mental Health America (MHA) and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), both of which are nationally recognized for their advocacy and services for individuals with mental illness and their families.
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Chicago Tribune
The state of Illinois has backed off a 2-year-old policy that allowed only its sickest residents with hepatitis C who rely on the traditional Medicaid program to get disease-curing drugs. The policy change, announced Friday evening, means Illinois residents on Medicaid with stage 3 liver scarring — not just the sickest patients with stage 4 liver scarring — will be able to access the drugs. If left untreated, hepatitis C can lead to liver failure, cancer and even death.
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The Baltimore Sun
The state of Maryland will change the way it reimburses medical providers for drug rehabilitation under Medicaid, the insurance program for low-income people, to encourage more counseling services for addicts and emphasize its importance as part of treatment. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced Tuesday that it will reimburse for outpatient counseling separately from methadone treatment beginning next March, opening the door for more patients to get counseling. It also will allow the state to better track whether treatment centers are providing counseling.
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The Tennessean
The 3-Star Healthy task force is preparing to submit its next draft of a TennCare expansion pilot to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in about seven days. Rep. Cameron Sexton and task force chairman, said the task force is finalizing how it proposes to measure utilization of service — one of its goals is to reduce emergency room visits — and the diagnostic aspect. The proposal is a Medicaid expansion pilot that will cover people with mental health and substance abuse disorders as well as veterans who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line in the first phase. Determining eligibility through diagnoses raised logistical questions from the beginning.
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Morning Consult
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rejected Ohio's plan to overhaul its Medicaid program Friday, citing concerns that the state's proposal would undermine access to affordable care for Medicaid-eligible adults in the state. Ohio had sought to put a conservative twist on Medicaid, using a waiver to propose that all enrollees be required to pay a monthly premium, and that coverage would be conditional on keeping up with those payments. The administration said the idea that the state could stop providing coverage indefinitely if an enrollee falls behind on their coverage until they repay all owed payments was concerning.
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Lexington Herald Leader
The federal government told Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's administration Thursday that its Medicaid waiver proposal has "sufficient information to evaluate" and it now wants to hear from Kentuckians what they think about the proposal. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Press Secretary Marjorie Connolly said the agency has certified the completeness of Kentucky's application for a Medicaid waiver, one of the first hurdles the proposal must clear.
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Kaiser Health News
It isn't news that in rural parts of the country, people have a harder time accessing good health care. But new evidence suggests opposition to a key part of the 2010 health overhaul could be adding to the gap. The finding comes from a study published Wednesday in the journal Health Affairs, which analyzes how the states' decisions on implementing the federal health law's expansion of Medicaid, a federal-state insurance program for low-income people, may be influencing rural hospitals' financial stability. Nineteen states opted not to join the expansion.
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