Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic disruption have drawn more attention to longstanding issues related to housing and internet access and how these issues can impact health. As the primary source of health insurance for low-income populations,…
Medicaid Vaccination Rates Founder as States Struggle to Immunize Their Poorest Residents – Kaiser Health News
Medicaid enrollees are getting vaccinated against covid-19 at far lower rates than the general population as states search for the best strategies to improve access to the shots and persuade those who remain hesitant. Efforts by state Medicaid agencies and…
Implications of the Medicaid Fiscal Cliff for the U.S. Territories
The U.S territories – American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) – have faced an array of longstanding fiscal and health challenges that were exacerbated by recent natural…
Georgia Eyes New Medicaid Contract. But How Is the State Managing Managed Care? – Kaiser Health News
Just before Frank Berry left his job as head of Georgia’s Medicaid agency this summer, he said the state “will be looking for the best bang for the buck” in its upcoming contract with private insurers to cover the state’s…
Will Medicaid take life insurance proceeds after I die? – NJ.com
Q. If I have an insurance policy that has no cash value and my son is the beneficiary, when I die and he receives the money, will Medicaid file a lien on that money? Would my son have to pay…
DC Council hits pause button on city contract to extend Medicaid benefits – WTOP
Health care for Medicaid recipients in D.C. is in limbo yet again: The D.C. Council has effectively hit the pause button on a contract with the health care provider that was set to extend benefits to a quarter-million residents. The…
Opinion: Another failure of the Medicaid Entitlement – clarkcountytoday.com
Roger Stark of the Washington Policy Center provides what he believes is evidence of another failure of the government health care safety net Roger StarkWashington Policy Center Medicaid began in 1965 as a government health care safety net for low-income…
Comitta backs plan to extend Medicaid coverage – Daily Local News
Members of the Pennsylvania Women’s Health Caucus held a press conference at Chester County Hospital to discuss the importance of the Commonwealth’s plans to extend Medicaid coverage to one year postpartum for all Pennsylvanians. Pictured (from left to right): State…
Expanding Medicaid eligibility may improve blood pressure, glucose control – News-Medical.Net
In the 26 states that expanded Medicaid eligibility by January 2014, federally qualified health centers observed reductions in uninsured patients and improvements in hypertension and glucose measurements, particularly among Black and Hispanic patients. Medicaid expansion under the Affordable…
Closing the Medicaid Coverage Gap Would Save 7,000 Lives Each Year – Center For American Progress
To date, 38 states and Washington, D.C., have fully implemented the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion, resulting in an increase of 13 million adults with Medicaid coverage in expansion states from the summer of 2013 through March 2020. Yet,…