North Carolina reports over 400,000 enrolled in Medicaid expansion program
Gov. Roy Cooper announced Monday that the number of new Medicaid enrollees for low-income adults in North Carolina exceeded 400,000 in the first four months of the expanded program. Full coverage of health care benefits for some adults ages 19 to 64 who earn too much to qualify for traditional Medicaid would be implemented by […]
California wants to pay doctors more money to see Medicaid patients – KSBY News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When Hunter Morgan bought a Southern California optometry office three years ago, one of the first things he did was create a government-funded low-income health center. The goal was to begin seeing patients using the insurance program Medicaid. The previous owners did not accept Medicaid patients, which covers about one-third of […]
Medicaid offices sue for dead people’s homes to cover health care costs without warning, critics say
When Salvatore Logrande was battling cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to let him live in the white, pitched-roof house he had bought so hard for decades earlier. So when, a year after her father’s death, the state of Massachusetts charged her father $177,000 in Medicaid costs and threatened […]
NY lawmakers fight gov’s plan to reform murky $6B Medicaid program
Albany lawmakers are rejecting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s efforts to rein in the popular $6 billion Medicaid home health program, which critics say is highly susceptible to abuse. After announcing their own budget last week, lawmakers are on the offensive, with the governor’s planned reforms to the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) aimed at helping […]
'Cruel' Medicaid program targets dead peoples' homes to recoup health care costs – New York Post
us news From the Associated Press issued March 17, 2024, 2:03 PM ET WASHINGTON — As Salvatore Logrande battled cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to let him live in the white, pitched-roof house he had bought so hard decades ago. . So when, a year after her father’s […]
Arizona officials misled public about scope of Medicaid fraud crisis – Arizona Daily Star
Hannah Bassett Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting In the 10 months since Arizona officials announced their investigation into massive Medicaid billing fraud, they have maintained that the abuse was largely confined to a small portion of Arizona’s health care cost containment system. In other words, it was a behavioral health provider who misused the department’s […]
Mississippi allows automatic Medicaid coverage for pregnancy while application processed
A new law in Mississippi would allow pregnant women early access to Medicaid in an effort to improve the health of mothers and children in the poor state, which has one of the worst infant mortality rates in the nation. The “presumptive eligibility” bill, signed by Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on Tuesday, is expected to […]
Republican Mississippi House advances Medicaid expansion proposal goes Senate
Mississippi’s Republican-led House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would expand Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of additional residents in one of the nation’s poorest states. This is a landmark shift after years of state leaders refusing to consider the policy. Passage of the bill was greeted with applause in the House after […]
New Medicaid ‘Playbook’ pulls directly from WEF and WHO
New Medicaid guidelines allow states to direct some of the funds toward new health initiatives, such as rent and utilities, and mirror the World Economic Forum’s “health equity” guidelines. An idea that took decades to develop. The Biden administration’s Medicaid guidelines were recently expanded to allow up to 3% of Medicaid spending to go toward […]
Doulas improve health outcomes for pregnant women with Medicaid: Report – The Hill
A new report from public policy organization Elevance Health finds that pregnant women who receive doula care have lower rates of C-sections and less postpartum depression and anxiety. Most women who received doula care were black or white and lived in urban or suburban areas. Amid the maternal health crisis, there is growing interest in […]