Filibuster against $4B Missouri Medicaid bill ends
A multi-day filibuster in the Missouri Senate ended Thursday with Republicans allowing a vote on the more than $4 billion Medicaid program that had been held hostage. Senators initially approved a bill by voice vote that would renew long-standing taxes on hospitals and other health care providers. The bill requires a second approval vote in […]
Kansas won’t have legal medical pot or expand Medicaid for at least another year
Kansas will remain one of the few states that has not legalized the medical use of marijuana or expanded Medicaid for at least another year. Republican state senators on Friday blocked efforts to force consideration of both issues before the Republican-controlled Legislature is scheduled to adjourn for the year on Tuesday. Sponsors of each bill […]
Mississippi Senate and House haggle over Medicaid expansion as session nears end
Leading Mississippi lawmakers began negotiations Tuesday on what could be a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of people in one of the nation’s poorest states. But even though Republicans control both the state House and the Senate, it is by no means clear whether they will reach a compromise by […]
Nearly one-quarter of adults booted from Medicaid are still uninsured, survey finds
Nearly a quarter of adults who say they were disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year remain uninsured since states began reopening eligibility checks, according to a new report investigation It was released on Friday by KFF. The study is the first to examine the health insurance status of adults enrolled in Medicaid in early […]
Critics furious over Hochul, Heastie plan to crack down on NY’s $8 billion home care Medicaid program
Critics are furious over a new plan by Gov. Kathy Hochul and State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to crack down on New York City’s $8 billion Medicaid home health program amid allegations of fraud. The governor and Sen. Heastie (D-Bronx) have agreed to overhaul the consumer-directed personal assistance program that allows New Yorkers to get […]
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 […]