New York’s experience during the Great Recession could inform its approach to coronavirus Medicaid during the pandemic, a recent report from the United Hospital Fund suggested.
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Oklahoma is the first state to officially request a Healthy Adult Opportunity demonstration waiver to expand its Medicaid program using the new block grant system.
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California’s whole person care 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver illustrates the challenges Medicaid programs face in providing care coordination for Medicaid beneficiaries and offers insight on...
On March 22, the Trump Administration released materials to guide Medicaid and CHIP programs to effectively orient and pursue coronavirus relief efforts.
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Medicaid expansion is key to securing national access to care for the new coronavirus and the federal government can and should support state programs for increasing COVID-19 coverage, according...
Healthy Adult Opportunity (HAO), a section 1115 Medicaid demonstration that creates a non-mandatory block grant for certain Medicaid populations, could require an expansion state to generate Medicaid...
The US Court of Appeals dealt a blow to Medicaid work requirements when the judges presiding over Gresham v Azar upheld the lower court decision to invalidate Arknsas’s Medicaid work...
If applied nationwide, Medicaid work requirements could be used to target 13 percent of non-SSI, non-dual, non-elderly Medicaid adults suffering from HIV who would not be compliant with normal working...
Updated 1/30/20: This article has been updated to include a statement from Avalere.
The Trump Administration announced a Medicaid block grant initiative called Healthy Adult Opportunity, which serves...
HHS and CMS are being sued over Michigan’s section 1115 demonstration waiver defining the state’s new work requirements.
The plaintiffs, who include individuals who would be impacted by...
CMS approved a Section 1115 demonstration that will broaden behavioral health treatment for Medicaid beneficiaries living in the District of Columbia who have been diagnosed with serious mental illness...
If Kentucky, the first state to pass Medicaid work requirements, appeals to reinstate the rule, it may face the same confusion and rise in uninsurance that Arkansas experienced, researchers from the...
CMS approved the second part of Alaska’s Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver addressing behavioral healthcare. The first part, addressing substance abuse care, was approved in November...
Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have improved coverage, access to care and coverage, and the economy, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation report.
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Indiana submitted an application for an amendment to the state’s Healthy Indiana Plan Section 1115 Demonstration that would help transition members off of the HIP and into commercial coverage....
New Hampshire’s proposal to create work requirements for Medicaid went the same path as Kentucky’s and Arkansas’ did earlier this year, with a federal judge striking down the Section...
CMS recently approved two section 1115 demonstration waivers that will allow Minnesota and Nebraska to improve and expand upon their Medicaid institutions for mental diseases (IMDs) over the course of...
Arkansas’s decline in Medicaid coverage has been linked to the state’s implementation of a work requirement for Medicaid enrollees between 30 and 49 years old, according to a study approved...
CMS and state Medicaid agencies are not always transparent about the consequences of 1115 demonstration waivers, specifically about how various demonstrations might impact beneficiaries, according to a...
CMS is issuing a request for information (RFI) asking states for ideas to develop State Relief and Empowerment Waivers to reduce costs in the individual insurance market.
In a recent blog post, CMS...
