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MHPA
Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) has named health policy and advocacy expert Craig Kennedy as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Kennedy brings broad experience with health care providers, public health organizations, and health advocacy combined with work in legislative affairs for both the U.S. House and Senate to MHPA. He most recently served as executive director of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU).
Kennedy is also president of the Coalition for Health Funding and serves as a board member of the Partnership for Medicaid, the largest coalition of providers and health plans dedicated to protecting and improving the Medicaid program.
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KETV-TV
Health care advocates voiced outrage and frustration at the Ricketts administration over delays and new requirements of voter-approved Nebraska Medicaid expansion.
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The Associated Press via Detroit Free Press
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Monday easing monthly reporting rules for able-bodied adults who will have to meet work requirements to qualify for coverage under Michigan's Medicaid expansion program.
She also accused Republican lawmakers of not allocating needed funding to implement the new requirements.
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McKnight's
Several U.S. lawmakers are looking to protect a Medicaid transportation benefit frequently used by nursing home residents as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services considers rolling back the protection.
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USA Today
Arizona Medicaid Director Jami Snyder heard many complaints about enrollees missing medical appointments because the transportation provided by the state didn’t show or came too late.
This summer, she hatched a solution familiar to millions of Americans looking for an efficient ride: She turned to Uber and Lyft.
Arizona became the first state to revamp its Medicaid regulations to make it easier for ride-sharing companies to participate in its nonemergency transportation benefit. Under the changes, Arizona eliminated several safety rules such as requiring all drivers to undergo drug testing and first aid training.
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WBUR-FM
"This bill will help to save the lives of moms and babies that look like me," Massachusetts Rep. Liz Miranda of Boston said.
Miranda, one of only three African-American women in the Massachusetts legislature, was arguing in favor of a bill that would make doulas eligible for coverage by Medicaid, the government program that insures many low-income patients.
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Post Register
The Department of Health and Welfare has received at least 1,121 written comments on a proposal to add work requirements to Medicaid expansion, most of them opposing the idea.
A sampling of the first 147 written comments, which came in on Aug. 26, showed 143 against the proposed work requirements, three in favor and one expressing mixed sentiments.
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Times Free Press
Health care advocates for the poor are fretting over the potential effect of Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's proposed Medicaid block grant waiver on 150,000 or more disabled Tennesseans should it win approval from the Trump administration.
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KBIA-FM
Georgetown University professor Tricia Brooks focuses her research on access to health insurance for children in low-income families with a particular focus on Medicaid and the children’s health insurance program, or CHIP. In this week's episode of Health and Wealth, Brooks talks about how Missouri's Medicaid enrollment drop compares to the rest of the country, and some of the factors behind it.
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Miami Herald
Existing is a Medicaid program for impoverished and disabled Floridians, which provides people with disabilities money to get services — such as in-home nursing, physical therapy and transportation — they need. But state disability administrators are developing a plan to restructure the state's home and community-based waiver program for more than 34,000 others like him, because the legislature says the state's disabilities agency has spent too much beyond the budget it is given.
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