Workers in states that embraced Medicaid expansion would have a better chance of accessing healthcare coverage assistance if unemployment compensation were not included in the eligibility...
Between March 1 and May 2, 2020, around 27 million people became uninsured as a result of losing their jobs and employer-sponsored health plans, a recent Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) report...
The coalition of Democrat states led by California and the House of Representatives filed their briefs in defense of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) just ahead of the May 6 deadline, while the coalition...
The Colorado House of Representatives laid aside the public option proposal, the Colorado Health Care Option, in light of coronavirus.
Three members of the Colorado House of Representatives wrote a...
As national unemployment mounts closer to historic levels, Medicaid expansion states will fare the surging uninsurance far better than nonexpansion states, according to a recent report from the Urban...
Over 14 million workers in industries hit hard by coronavirus are eligible for Medicaid or subsidized healthcare insurance on the ACA marketplace if they become unemployed, regardless of whether they...
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.
According to an announcement from...
The Utah Department of Health has announced that it is suspending the community engagement requirement for its Medicaid expansion members.
The department stated that the unemployment rate resulting...
As the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen, uninsurance rates will increase rapidly and place unprecedented strain on Medicaid programs and the ability of uninsured...
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...
On March 13, the Trump Administration declared the spreading coronavirus (COVID-19) a national emergency. CMS immediately followed with various resources, including a factsheet from March 5 about...
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...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has conducted the first review of state Medicaid eligibility determinations since the ACA’s implementation in 2014 and found that there were several...
From 2016 to 2017, the uninsured rate rose by 1.2 percent and the number of persons who avoided care due to cost rose by 1.0 percent, demonstrating a shift in healthcare trends that started with the...
In Michigan, participants in the Healthy Michigan Plan (HMP), the state’s Medicaid expansion program, saw employment and academic status gains that dwarfed those among the rest of the...
As January comes to a close, some states are determining their Medicaid funding streams for the new fiscal year. Obstacles to passing state budgets illuminate states’ competing priorities when it...
Medicaid expansion may impact patient outcomes and coverage in low-income populations in the southern states, according to a recent study published by Health Affairs.
The study surveyed and extracted...
Medicaid expansion may influence postpartum coverage stability and outpatient utilization based on results from Colorado and Utah’s Medicaid programs, a recent Health Affairs study found.
Using...
As the promise of federal funding slacked in 2017, states put more of their own funds toward their Medicaid programs, with Medicaid spending absorbing 17 percent of overall state-generated funds,...
Medicaid expansion states saw a six percent decreased rate in total opioid overdose deaths compared to states that did not expand Medicaid eligibility, according to researchers from the University of...
