By Liisa Ogburn For those paying for Skilled Nursing out-of-pocket, costs in this area run from $190/day (or $5,700/month) up to $400/day (or $12,000/month). Several readers have recently written in to ask questions about getting assistance with the cost of…
Utah voters approved Medicaid expansion, but lawmakers may delay it or impose work requirements – Salt Lake Tribune
An expanded Medicaid program in Utah is set to launch in April after 53 percent of the state’s voters approved Proposition 3 in November. But that launch date could be moved back, with health care benefits ultimately available to fewer…
Medicaid patients sue for not getting rides to doctors – CTPost
By Christine Stuart, CTNewsJunkie.com Updated 2:46 pm EST, Thursday, January 10, 2019 Six Medicaid recipients have filed a class action lawsuit against the state Department of Social Services for failing to provide them with timely transportation to their doctor appointments. Six…
First 500 Mainers approved for coverage under Medicaid expansion – Bangor Daily News
HALLOWELL, Maine — More than 500 Mainers are now covered under Medicaid expansion as Gov. Janet Mills moves to implement the voter-approved law during the Democrat’s first days in office with surplus revenue in a state account. There are still…
Medicaid recipients concerned about benefits – WJTV
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Medicaid expansion was thought to be considered by lawmakers this session. It is something that caught many democratic and some republican lawmakers by surprise.There have been several reports about Governor Phil Bryant moving behind the scenes…
ACLU reaches settlement with RI in Medicaid dispute – The Providence Journal
PROVIDENCE — The ACLU of Rhode Island has reached a settlement with the state over the alleged improper removal of low-income Rhode Islanders from the state-run Medicaid program as a result of glitches blamed on the problem-plagued public-benefits computer system…
CMS’s 2018 Proposed Medicaid Managed Care Rule: A Summary of Major Provisions
Executive Summary Managed care is the predominant Medicaid delivery system in most states, with over two-thirds of beneficiaries enrolled in comprehensive risk-based managed care organizations as of July 2016, and millions of others covered by limited-benefit risk-based plans or primary…
Advocate’s Outline on Supplemental Needs Trusts and Rules for Impact of Lump Sums on Various Benefits
This in-depth training outline (updated January 2019) covers how Supplemental Needs Trusts work (both individual and pooled), when an asset or lump sum may be deposited into an SNT. For Community Medicaid only, income may also be placed into an…
With super-majorities gone, is Medicaid expansion on the table in NC? – WRAL.com
By Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter Raleigh, N.C. — Here’s a multibillion-dollar question as the General Assembly comes back into session: Will North Carolina expand Medicaid this year? Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, a senior appropriations chairman and someone who has…
Castor, Democrats urge DeSantis to expand Medicaid – Tampa Bay Times
U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor of Tampa, Charlie Crist of St. Petersburg and Florida’s 11 other Democratic members of Congress urged Gov. Ron DeSantis to do something that Republicans have refused to do: expand Medicaid. “The citizens of Florida have spoken…