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The Hill
Congress missed a deadline to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) over the weekend, leaving federal funding to expire at the end of the month, according to ABC News. Neither the House nor the Senate took up a vote to reauthorize the program, which helps states provide inexpensive health insurance to children in lower-income families.
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Politico
HHS Secretary Tom Price resigned Friday in the face of multiple federal inquiries and growing criticism of his use of private and government planes for travel, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1 million since May. The White House said the former seven-term Georgia congressman, 63, offered his resignation earlier in the day and that President Donald Trump had accepted it.
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The Washington Post
Paige Winfield Cunningham writes: "For a while after President Trump was elected, I thought I should watch a few episodes of 'The Apprentice' if only to hear him utter the infamous phrase, 'You're fired.' Turns out I didn't need to. Tom Price — who led the Department of Health and Human Services for a mere eight months — is packing up his desk at the Humphrey building, announcing Friday that he's resigning from the sprawling federal agency that oversees not only the government's big Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs, but also the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
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Morning Consult
The cost of Medicaid has risen fast because many more people became eligible for the program under the Affordable Care Act. Here are five reasons work requirements for Medicaid will not be an effective solution for the ballooning cost of Medicaid. Included are comments on administrative burden to health plans by MHPA CEO Jeff Myers.
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The Hill
The Trump administration this week delayed the implementation of a rule under the Affordable Care Act meant to punish drug companies for price gouging, according to a new report. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday quietly logged the delayed rollout of the rule into the federal register, Mic reports. The rule was initially set to go into effect on Sunday, but has been pushed back to next July.
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ABC News
Iowa is seeking permission from President Donald Trump's administration to cut a key benefit for all its Medicaid recipients, a move that could foreshadow other state-level efforts to change the safety net program after Congress repeatedly failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Federal health officials could decide soon whether to back Iowa's proposal, which would cut retroactive payments for poor or disabled residents for medical needs incurred up to three months before they registered for or re-enrolled in Medicaid. The state wants a decision by Oct. 1, though such a timeline appears unlikely.
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The Associated Press via Fosters.com
The New Hampshire Legislature won't be back in session until January, but lawmakers have begun drafting bills and crafting agendas. After getting the budget out of the way last year, re-authorization of the state's expanded Medicaid program will be the big issue next year, said House Minority Leader Steve Shurtleff, D-Concord.
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The Tennessean
In another longshot bid to provide hundreds of thousands of low-income Tennesseans with government-funded affordable health care, Tennessee Democrats are asking Gov. Bill Haslam to call a special legislative session to take up expanding Medicaid eligibility. The move comes after the failure of the latest Republican attempt in the U.S. Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
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Modern Healthcare
Montana's Medicaid expansion program has saved the state health department more than $30 million since its start in January 2016, mostly because the federal government paid a bigger share of the costs for some recipients, officials said. Erica Johnston with the Department of Public Health and Human Services told a legislative oversight committee last week that the program covers nearly 84,000 residents and has paid for $574 million in healthcare services since it began.
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Arkansas Online
Driven by enrollment that surged past expectations, spending on Arkansas' expanded Medicaid program grew by almost 24 percent during the fiscal year that ended June 30, surpassing what state officials initially projected by about $200 million. Despite the higher-than-expected overall cost, Arkansas' share of the tab came in about $5 million below what the state had projected.
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