Montana Moderates Revive Medicaid Expansion
A crucial vote Thursday could make Montana the 29th state to opt into the health law鈥檚 Medicaid expansion.
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A crucial vote Thursday could make Montana the 29th state to opt into the health law鈥檚 Medicaid expansion.
More people are getting insurance coverage for addiction treatment, but there鈥檚 already a shortage of trained professionals.
Seven years after passing a mental health parity law, the federal government issues its first proposal on how public programs such as Medicaid and CHIP should comply.
Marketplaces face challenges ensuring that low-income customers continue to get coverage if their incomes change to put them above or below the Medicaid eligibility line.
HHS says the improvement reflects what is happening to hospitals in states that increased the number of low-income people eligible for the health care program.
The final piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution鈥檚 series on Arkansas鈥 privatized Medicaid expansion looks at how several red states are considering such a model as a politically palatable way to extend coverage to the poor.
California is one of the few states that charge the estates of deceased Medicaid beneficiaries for the cost of their health coverage. A bill is moving through the state legislature to stop the practice.
A provision of the Affordable Care Act that covers some Medicaid administrative costs will help close a $338 million gap in the state鈥檚 Medicaid budget, even though Texas has declined to expand the health program for the poor.
Several GOP-led states are taking note of Arkansas鈥 market-based approach to Medicaid expansion, but questions remain about its long-term costs and effectiveness.
Incentives designed to spur enrollees to exercise, eat healthier and make regular doctor visits are built into Medicaid managed care contracts that Missouri officials recently awarded to three insurers.
For people in Mount Vernon, Texas, the loss of their hospital means longer trips for treatment and uncertainty when a medical crisis hits.
Despite the Democrat's embrace of a work requirement for the first time, the plan got a hostile reaction from some GOP lawmakers.
A House committee gives the bill a 鈥渄o not pass鈥 recommendation, which effectively kills Democrats鈥 efforts to get it on the House floor. A Republican counter-proposal that includes premiums and co-payments for Medicaid enrollees may come out of the state Senate.
The switch from the previous governor's privatized Medicaid expansion alternative to Gov. Tom Wolf's traditional plan will take several months because of IT issues.
In some of the largest states that did not expand Medicaid, many safety-net hospitals turned in strong performances in 2014, according to financial documents.
Republican lawmakers asked the Obama administration for greater flexibility to administer the state-federal insurance program and reiterated their lack of interest in expanding eligibility under the federal health law.
Although children in foster care have often suffered neglect or abuse, 29 percent failed to receive at least one required medical screening, according to an inspector general鈥檚 report.
Some legislators and patient advocates say the targeted services, including dental and mental health services, not only help keep people healthy 鈥 they save the state money.
Dentists say they鈥檙e reluctant to see Medicaid patients because they鈥檙e typically paid about half as much as they get from private patients.
Nursing homes now will be graded on their use of anti-psychotic drugs and will have to do more to get top ratings on the federal website Nursing Home Compare.
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