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...
A recent study by George Mason University’s Mercatus Center found that there is a strong population of Medicaid enrollees who receive Medicaid support even though they are above the income...
According to a study by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, the number of uninsured children has increased by over 400,000 in a two year time-span and policymakers and researchers alike...
Introducing a public option could encourage commercial payers to lower their premiums, a trend reflected in increased competition from Medicaid managed care organizations, researchers from the Urban...
Overall Medicaid spending growth was at 2.9 percent for fiscal year (FY) 2019 but is projected to trend upward in the new year, while Medicaid enrollment growth was flat and will continue to be so in...
If the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was not in effect in 2018, 45 percent of families would have one non-elderly adult with a pre-existing condition for which they might be declined from healthcare...
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...
In 2018, 8.5 percent of the nation did not have health insurance coverage at any point during the year, the Census Bureau’s report revealed, arguably the first rise in the uninsurance rate since...
Between 2016 to 2017, 700,000 more individuals became uninsured, a recent study by the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation found. This rise in uninsurance comes at a time when the economy is thriving,...
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.
“The...
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...
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion could have saved 15,600 lives in the three years following its initiation if it was put into effect nationwide, according to a recent study from the...
CMS recently released new state relief and empowerment waiver resources for states to use as they stabilize their insurance markets through reinsurance and other methods.
“While states have...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released renewed guidance on Medicaid eligibility determinations and spending integrity the organization announced.
According to CMS, Medicaid...
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...
Medicaid expansion may have closed racial health disparities in timely cancer care access, according to a group of researchers from the Yale Cancer Center.
The research, presented recently at the...
In its 2020 fiscal year federal budget, The Trump Administration is proposing a significant reconfiguration of the nation’s healthcare landscape by rolling back Medicaid expansion, creating state...
Primary care providers (PCPs) and psychiatrists are among the least likely professionals to accept Medicaid, leaving patients without some of the most fundamental resources for preventing or managing...
Earlier this week, the Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index reported that the percentage of adults without health insurance reached 13.7 percent by the close of 2018. The polling group sampled...
Medicaid managed care accounted for 38 percent of total Medicaid spending in 2012, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis.
The report found that the majority of states in the US have...
