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Medicaid provides health care coverage for 75 million low-income, disabled, and elderly individuals, or 1 in 4 Americans. This week, influential health care leaders from around the country will convene to discuss innovations that are shaping the future of this vital safety net program.
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Springfield News-Leader
The push to get Medicaid expansion on Missouri ballots in 2020 is still in the early stages, but it's already clear it'll be well-funded.
Less than two weeks after a coalition of advocates went public with plans to make more people eligible for state-funded health care, a campaign committee backing them had taken in roughly $2.2 million in donations.
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MLive
Reporting rules for compliance with Michigan's upcoming Medicaid work requirements will be less strict under legislation sent to the governor's desk this week.
The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Curtis Hertel, D-East Lansing, and backed by Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clark Lake, is an update to legislation approved in 2018 that will require able-bodied recipients of the state's Healthy Michigan Medicaid program to work or risk losing health care coverage starting in 2020.
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WHYY-TV
Two Pennsylvania Republican state senators are resuscitating a plan to require many able-bodied Medicaid recipients to prove they're working, volunteering, or looking for jobs to qualify for healthcare coverage.
Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has already vetoed two similar bills.
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The News-Gazette
The state of Illinois is about to overhaul the way it provides health care to an estimated 74,000 of its most vulnerable children and young adults, and the prospect of that is making many lawmakers and health care providers nervous.
At issue is a plan by the Department of Children and Family Services to place all of the children under its charge into a single managed-care health insurance program, similar to those that now manage the bulk of the state's Medicaid program, by Nov. 1.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Months after the state of Arkansas fired a company for failing to provide required rides to Medicaid patients, the company hired in its place is being fined more than $300,000 for the same violation.
Janet Mann, director of the state Department of Human Services' Division of Medical Services, told lawmakers earlier this week that Atlanta-based Southeastrans was fined $500 for each of the 645 trips it had failed to provide in recent months, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
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HealthITAnalytics
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) is partnering with Phreesia, a patient intake platform, to address individuals' social determinants of health using real-time data and screening questions.
Healthcare organizations across the state can now use Phreesia to deliver North Carolina's Standardized Social Determinants of Health Screening Questions and identify patients with unmet social needs. The platform can send real-time alerts to providers and care coordinators about patients' individual needs and give a more holistic view of patients' health.
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
An Indiana company would hold a stake in two of the three managed-care companies serving Arkansas Medicaid recipients with costly health needs under an acquisition awaiting approval by the Arkansas Insurance Department.
Anthem Inc. announced June 6 that it had reached an agreement to buy Beacon Health Options of Boston.
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Index-Journal
More than 500,000 people enrolled in Medicaid through expansion in nine states though their income made them ineligible for the program, a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found.
Co-authored by professors at the University of Kentucky and Georgia State University, the analysis notes that the nine states evaluated represent only 25% of the 37 states that expanded their Medicaid programs. The total number of ineligible enrollees, then, is potentially three times higher.
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The Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle
The two candidates running for Mississippi lieutenant governor engaged in a civil discussion about Medicaid expansion and other issues during a televised statewide debate.
The 30-minute forum Thursday evening will probably be the only chance for many voters to do a side-by-side comparison of the nominees. Democrat Jay Hughes of Oxford is a first-term state representative, and Republican Delbert Hosemann of Jackson is in his third term as secretary of state.
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