Medicaid Expansion

State Medicaid Expansion Should Reduce Emergency Room Visits

by Vera Gruessner

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act brought a variety of changes for the healthcare industry as well as individual states. For example, the Affordable Care Act called on for Medicaid...

CMS Rule Renovates Coverage beyond ACA’s Medicaid Expansion

by Vera Gruessner

The Medicaid program has greatly changed since the passage of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act. Most importantly, more than half of the states throughout the nation have implemented...

How Medicaid Expansion Improves Behavioral Healthcare Access

by Vera Gruessner

When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed into law, it established that Medicaid expansion across all 50 states would take place. However, a Supreme Court ruling created a clause...

Does Blocking State Medicaid Expansion Create a Coverage Gap?

by Vera Gruessner

The most recent data on state Medicaid expansion shows that a total of 20 states are declining to broaden Medicaid coverage among those living below poverty level. One of the provisions under...