The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has submitted an amendment to their section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver “BadgerCare Reform” for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansion led to reduced income inequality, especially in states that enhanced Medicaid, according to a new study published in Health Affairs.
Additionally, the ACA reduced...
Medicaid expansion might ensure that homeless individuals receive access not only to healthcare coverage, but also to the care that they need, a Health Affairs study found.
“Our results provide...
Healthcare coverage remains out of reach for many low-income Americans due to cost, but three innovative solutions for Connecticut might shed light on how to bolster payer coverage affordability, a...
States can use Medicaid expansion and additional Medicaid policies—such as beginning Medicaid eligibility determinations pre-release and suspending Medicaid coverage during incarceration—to...
Poor maternal and infant care access can have deadly implications for new mothers and their babies, but Medicaid expansion efforts can improve three key prenatal and postpartum health indicators, a...
Differences between Medicaid expansion and nonexpansion states go beyond whether states opted into the Affordable Care Act allowance, a Health Affairs study found. Researchers have discovered Medicaid...
States with lower incomes per capita often receive funding from higher income states through Medicaid and CHIP federal funding. But some low-income states without Medicaid expansion end up contributing...
The number of uninsured children in Louisiana in 2019 was 28.2 percent higher than its low number of uninsured children in 2017, following a national trend in childhood uninsurance, the Louisiana...
The link between Medicaid enrollment and unemployment has not been substantiated so far during the pandemic but, rather, varied largely based on state policies, a report published in Health Affairs...
Medicaid expansion has had mixed results in reducing health disparities and advancing coverage, utilization, and quality of care equity, an issue brief from Kaiser Family Foundation revealed.
The...
Under Medicaid expansion, Texas could receive around $5.4 billion from the federal government to cover Medicaid costs. The state could also cover a larger portion of its significant uninsured...
Healthcare improvements through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces had stalled before the coronavirus pandemic struck the US and COVID-19 has only further exposed the system’s weaknesses, the...
Employer-sponsored healthcare coverage dropped nearly two percent between late-April 2020 and mid-July 2020, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) report that corroborates a couple...
If the federal government wants to prevent more healthcare workers from becoming unemployed, it needs to do more to bolster employer-sponsored insurance, pushed a report from FamiliesUSA.
Because...
Missouri will move forward with its Medicaid expansion amendment, as 53 percent of the nearly 1.3 million voters approved the measure, local news outlets reported. The state is the second to expand...
North Carolina’s legislature has decided to put off Medicaid expansion for another year, but passed a Medicaid transformation bill to continue the transition from fee-for-service to privatized...
Oklahoma is now the first state to turn to Medicaid expansion during the coronavirus pandemic, a state ballot determined.
The vote passed by a margin of less than one percentage point, local news...
Medicaid expansion has an impact on women’s health by opening up access to longer-acting, effective contraceptives that can prevent unwanted pregnancies in adults and adolescents, a study...
If all of the nonexpansion states adopted Medicaid expansion, thus establishing total Medicaid expansion nationwide, there would be a 28 percent reduction in uninsurance, the Urban Institute found in...
