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The Hill
President Donald Trump on Thursday will direct the acting director of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to announce that the opioid epidemic is a public health emergency, according to a report in USA Today. Trump, however, will not call for declaring the crisis a national emergency during an event at the White House about the opioid epidemic, the newspaper reported, contradicting the president's comments on Wednesday.
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MHPA
MHPA17, the largest Medicaid managed care conference in the U.S., provides a platform for industry leaders to address key issues, healthcare solutions and best practice panels to ensure high quality care for Medicaid enrollees. MHPA17 will focus on the future of Medicaid with special attention to policy and operations within the plans. MHPA's annual conference will feature a third innovation track highlighting key business practices and programs that have brought quality care to the members they serve.
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The Hill
A bipartisan deal to shore up Obamacare's insurance markets would reduce the deficit by nearly $4 billion by 2027, according to a score released Wednesday by Congress's nonpartisan scorekeeper. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) and Patty Murray (D-Washington), would fund key Obamacare insurer subsidies and give states more flexibility to change their Obamacare programs.
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STAT
With a broad overhaul of Obamacare stalled in Washington, one of President Donald Trump's top healthcare leaders is drawing the outlines of sweeping changes to Medicaid that could pare enrollments and cut costs without congressional approval. Seema Verma, director of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is promising to give states an "unprecedented level of flexibility" to design their Medicaid programs as they see fit. In an appearance in Cleveland this week, she pledged to reduce scrutiny of state requests for waivers from federal rules meant to preserve access and quality standards.
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The Roanoke Times
Virginia lawmakers will need to rethink their resistance to Medicaid expansion as federal funds that pay for children's health care disappear, the governor said on Tuesday. "We lose $6.6 million a day, $2.2 billion per year. This is the craziest thing I have ever seen. This is our money, we should bring it back," said Gov. Terry McAuliffe following an appearance in Roanoke to mark the expansion of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
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The Dallas Morning News
State and federal Medicaid officials haven't provided the same generous healthcare benefits to individuals and communities devastated by Hurricane Harvey as they did more than a decade ago to victims of another lethal and crippling storm, Katrina.
Some healthcare experts and providers confirmed Tuesday that they are beginning to ask why.
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
While efforts to pass major federal legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and restructure and reduce federal Medicaid financing may be on hold temporarily, the focus of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and states is expected to turn to achieving significant Medicaid program changes through Section 1115 demonstration waivers. Going back to the mid-1990s, each new administration has used discretion to approve and promote different types of demonstration waivers.
Although few waivers have been approved recently, the Trump Administration has signaled its openness to allowing states to test policies that have never before been approved in Medicaid and is considering waivers that seek to impose work requirements, drug screening and testing, eligibility time limits, enforceable premiums, and other eligibility and enrollment restrictions on existing expansion adults and/or traditional Medicaid populations. The limited waiver activity that has occurred so far in 2017 provides some insights into how the purpose of waivers and their approval process, implementation, and oversight may be evolving.
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