After years of watching Republican leaders reject Medicaid expansion at the Capitol, Missourians went to the polls in August and overruled them with 53 percent of the vote. The effect could be seismic. Expansion is expected to make over 200,000 more people eligible for state-run coverage in July, pump billions of dollars into the health care system with them and supercharge state budget discussions about how to pay for it all next year.
Expand Medicaid. Save Lives. That message, with candles representing low-income Texans who have died prematurely because of lacking healthcare coverage, will be projected in a video mural on the Governor's Mansion in Austin Thursday night. Democrats are again prioritizing Medicaid expansion on the campaign trail as they fight to flip nine Texas House districts in November and secure a majority ahead of the legislative session in 2021.
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Plans to require Ohio Medicaid recipients to work 20 hours a week have been delayed because of the coronavirus outbreak. As part of the federal CARES Act coronavirus funding that Congress passed in March, state Medicaid agencies are receiving more money to fight the outbreak, said John Corlett, president of the Cleveland health care think tank the Center for Community Solutions and a former state Medicaid director.
Nebraska will officially offer expanded Medicaid coverage to low-income people starting Thursday after years of wrangling over it in the Legislature, a statewide ballot campaign that led voters to approve it and a nearly two-year rollout that left some people in health care limbo. The state will provide coverage to 10,288 residents who have signed up so far, a number roughly in line with the state's projections. State officials expect expanded enrollment to rise to about 90,000 within a few years.
More than 4 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program between February and June of this year, CMS said Sept. 30. That represents a 5.7% increase since a public health emergency for COVID-19 was declared in March. CMS said it will release monthly updates that track total Medicaid and CHIP enrollment during the pandemic.
Medicaid expansion has had mixed results in reducing health disparities and advancing coverage, utilization, and quality of care equity, an issue brief from Kaiser Family Foundation revealed. The researchers reviewed 65 studies with publication dates spanning January 2014 to July 2020. The studies covered the effects of Medicaid expansion on health disparities in four major areas: Healthcare coverage, access to care and utilization, patient outcomes and quality of care, and payer mix as well as other economic impacts.
After years of complaints about backlogs and mishandled Medicaid applications, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is parting ways with Maximus, the private for-profit company that administered the KanCare clearinghouse. One of the firms hired by former Gov. Sam Brownback's administration to bring lower costs and private sector efficiency to state government, Maximus instead got poor marks for processing applications and operating KanCare's customer service call center.
Ohio Medicaid, which provides health care to more than a quarter of the state's population, is poised to take a big step in a major overhaul of the program. Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday said that on Wednesday a request for applications will hit the streets seeking pitches from companies to manage the care of more than 90% of Ohio Medicaid recipients.
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A lawsuit has challenged the legality of a rule in Alaska’s Medicaid program excluding transgender residents from coverage for transition-related health care. The lawsuit arguing the exclusion is a civil rights violation names as defendants the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services and department Commissioner Adam Crum, The Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday.
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New data published to LawAtlas.org today capturing details of state Medicaid coverage for podiatry care finds state Medicaid coverage for podiatric services varies widely between jurisdictions. These data fill a vacuum of information about the variation in who is covered; what services are covered; what steps a recipient might need to take in order to get care; how much money, if any, the beneficiary might need to contribute toward the cost of their care; and how much physicians can expect to the reimbursed for care provided.
Hundreds came to the Wisconsin State Capitol Sunday afternoon, in part of a March for Medicaid led by Wisconsin Poor People's Campaign and Black Umbrella, amongst other organizations. The march is part of a national week of action throughout the country.
