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The Hill
Healthcare companies are making a last-minute push to delay Obamacare taxes as part of a year-end government funding deal, but they face resistance from Democrats who want to punt the issue until next year when they control the House.
Powerful healthcare lobbies are pushing lawmakers to delay the implementation of the taxes, worried about taking a financial hit. Lawmakers have voted to push off the health law's medical device tax, health insurance tax and tax on high-cost "Cadillac" health plans in the past with bipartisan support.
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Marketplace
Amanda Dabrowski visited the Health Partnership Clinic in Olathe, Kansas, at the end of November, to get help signing up for Medicaid.
The 38-year-old has had a tough year — her husband died, she's disabled from a work injury, so she doesn't have a job, and she's caring for her seven-year-old daughter. She'd been on Medicaid during the last year, but now she was told she didn't qualify for it.
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Forbes
Nearly 20 percent of Texans under the age of 65 don't have health insurance and most of them are working, according to a new analysis that could further pressure that state's policymakers and politicians to expand Medicaid coverage for the poor.
Texas has 4.7 million uninsured, the most people of any other U.S. state without medical coverage under age 65, according to a new report on the state's uninsured by the Urban Institute that is sponsored by Episcopal Health Foundation.
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Learn how one provider is challenging the status-quo in behavioral healthcare and advocating for society’s most vulnerable members to discover their life worth living by providing a recovery experience like no other. Individuals with serious mental illness (including dual diagnosis) are empowered and able to realize a life in the community, on terms they define with the right treatment and services. In Philadelphia, PA and Nashville, TN, a unique extended behavioral support program has been proven to reduce cost and increase positive outcomes, by combining apartment-style community living with intensive, daily, evidence-based programming. This setting helps minimize stigma and create normalized social expectations and consequences.
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Daily Inter Lake
Three Montana lawmakers, all Republicans, concurred Tuesday during a panel discussion in Kalispell that they anticipate that some form of Medicaid expansion likely will be approved during the upcoming legislative session.
Sen. Scott Sales of Bozeman, along with Flathead legislators Sen. Mark Blasdel and Rep. Mark Noland, weighed in about Medicaid expansion after a related question from a moderator during a luncheon meeting held by the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce.
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CNN
Arkansas is making some changes to its new Medicaid work requirement program as thousands of residents lose coverage.
Medicaid recipients will be able to report the hours they work each month by telephone starting Dec. 19, the Arkansas Department of Human Services announced Wednesday.
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HFI’s mission is to partner with healthcare clients to improve their fiscal health by advocating for their most vulnerable members. HFI helps members get necessary benefits and income affording them access to important social determinants of health.
We effectively identify and reclassify eligible super-utilizers from TANF/ACA to ABD.
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The Associated Press
Target Corp. has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that it violated rules of Massachusetts' Medicaid program.
Federal and Massachusetts authorities allege Minneapolis-based Target violated federal and state False Claims Acts by automatically refilling Medicaid recipients' prescriptions and seeking payment from Medicaid.
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Watch how Kern Health Systems, a large Medicaid organization in California, uses Jiva—the industry’s leading PHM platform—to achieve seamless integration and single sign-on while also streamlining workflows, lowering costs, and improving overall health outcomes for its members.
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KOB-TV
New Mexico's Medicaid program is going to cost taxpayers an additional $63 million next year.
According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, the federal government is scaling back on how much of the costs it will cover from 93 percent to 90 percent starting in the budget year that begins in July.
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The Lund Report
Oregon has chosen a familiar face to lead the state's Medicaid program as it heads towards the next phase, with a focus on mental health, value-based payments that reward outcomes instead of performing procedures and social determinants of health like housing. Oregon's former Medicaid director Lori Coyner will return to the role on Jan. 28, filling the vacancy she left in 2017.
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Kern Health Systems (Kern) is overcoming numerous care management challenges using Jiva, the industry’s leading PHM platform. Learn how the powerful end-to-end platform is helping Kern consolidate data, streamline workflow, manage compliance, create holistic assessments, improve overall health outcomes, and plan for future expansion into new lines of business.
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Health Affairs
For years, healthcare providers have struggled with the reality that they can do little within their roles to directly address the social factors often at the root of their patients' health issues. They discharge a homeless patient back onto the winter streets, while fearing he may soon be wheeled into the ED with frostbite. They encourage a working mother with diabetes to eat healthier meals, while recognizing that her income level and limited local grocery options make that near impossible. They request multiple follow-up visits to adjust blood pressure medications, all the while knowing that the patient doesn’t own a car and isn't near a bus line.
Last month marked what appears to be a major turning point in that struggle, one that alters how clinicians and healthcare organizations define their roles in addressing social determinants of health. In prepared remarks, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar suggested that his agency may begin allowing some federal health programs to directly address social factors.
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The Hill
A drug company is offering a significantly cheaper version of its life-saving opioid overdose treatment after a Senate investigation found that it spiked the price of its drug.
A report from the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations last month found that the company, Kaléo, hiked the price of its drug Evzio to $4,100 for two injectors, raising the price by more than 600 percent between 2014 and 2017.
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