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The Medicaid program paid for nearly one-half of the nation's total long-term care expenditures in 2004. To be eligible for Medicaid long-term care, individuals may transfer assets (income and resources) to others to ensure that their assets fall below certain limits. Individuals who make tran...
MassHealth is the name for the Massachusetts Medicaid program that offers free or low-cost healthcare or health insurance to low and moderate-income households within the state. Eligibility for MassHealth is based on household size and income. Working Income Massachusetts considers any money you make...
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Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Administrative Simplification: Adoption of a Standard for a Unique Healt... journal for healthcare quality official publication of the national association for healthcare qualityXin H, Kilgore ML, Sen BP. Is Access ...
In most states, if a child's SSI claim is granted, the child also becomes eligible for Medicaid. According to the Social Security Administration (SSA) website, in 32 states and the District of Columbia, the SSI application is also the Medicaid application. Medicaid eligibility starts the same...
Medicaid expansionUninsured populationDespite implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many Americans remain uninsured and receive care in free clinics. It is unknown what free clinic attendees in Pennsylvania know about health insurance expansion or what they perceive as barriers in enrolling ...
CONCLUSIONS: The absence of out-of-pocket expenditures under Medicaid for medications and physician care may contribute significantly to BP control. Improved access to a regular source of care and increased sensitivity to medication costs for all patients may lead to improved BP control in an ...
Health insuranceMedical prescriptionsPatient careUnited States of AmericaPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine rates of potentially inappropriate prescribing in a population dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid using the new 2003 Fick update, which revises the previous 1997 Beers list...
Medicare Advantage plans have a financial incentive to increase medication adherence among members because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) now awards substantive bonus payments to such plans, based in part on population adherence to chronic medications. We sought to build an ...