Florida House Goes Home Early Over Medicaid Impasse
Meanwhile, Gov. Rick Scott sues the federal government, saying the state is being coerced to accept the expansion or lose dollars for other health care programs for the poor.
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Meanwhile, Gov. Rick Scott sues the federal government, saying the state is being coerced to accept the expansion or lose dollars for other health care programs for the poor.
Tennessee鈥檚 TennCare program awaits federal rules to limit insurer profits and set stricter standards for quality and doctor networks 鈥 the biggest rules change for Medicaid managed care in a decade.
The federal government has been issuing warnings about the dangers of overdosing and addiction to methadone for nearly a decade. But only in the past two years have states started removing it from their Medicaid 鈥減referred drug lists.鈥
Some families likely received lower subsidies than they were entitled to or were denied Medicaid coverage because of faulty calculations related to children who receive Social Security income.
Federal officials have warned several states that their reluctance to expand Medicaid could cost them special federal funding to treat the uninsured.
Other states have overcome political opposition to Medicaid expansion and adopted plans to bring government-subsidized coverage to more of their low-income residents.
Without Medicaid expansion, South Florida鈥檚 low-income residents have found out the hard way that the healthcare safety net designed to catch people before they hit bottom is no substitute for insurance.
With legislators seemingly deadlocked on Medicaid expansion in Florida, residents in the "coverage gap" are stitching together their medical care through personal ingenuity, half doses of medicines and low-cost clinics.
The health law temporarily paid doctors more to handle the expected influx of patients when states expanded their Medicaid programs and some states are continuing that program because they find it has helped attract providers to the program.
Some consumers who face a 2014 tax bill can make adjustments to improve their liability.
A rare bipartisan effort will scrap the troubled physician payment formula and transition to a system focused on new quality measures.
HHS auditors recommend Missouri repay more than $34 million to the federal government, but state officials dispute the findings.
The bill picked up two more Republican votes in the state House and has the support of the governor.
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.
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