Farmer's complaints launched the first investigations that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, has publicly acknowledged since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. Across the country, women have reported being turned away from hospitals for abortions, despite doctors telling them...
Central Texas Emergency Department Study Shows Trend Toward More Uninsured and Medicaid Patients.The article focuses on the findings of a study of emergency departments (ED) in several safety net provider hospitals in Texas conducted by the Indigent Care Collaboration (ICC). The study covered patient...
We’ll use Texas Medicaid regulations as an example. Themandatory documentationfor reimbursement on claims for abortion services is hyper-specific and includes a hand-signed physician statement with no allowance for “substitute wording.” Faxed and email documentation are not accepted, so paperwo...
The Supreme Court decided Monday that a court order finding Texas hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a state abortion ban will stay for now.
37-39 There has also been a call to expand access to MTFs to include Medicaid-eligible civilians in an effort to diversify the patient caseload of clinicians at MTFs and enable them to provide nontrauma care to civilian populations when deployed around the world.40 An early example of this...
Public aid. If you are a Medicaid beneficiary, you may be available for dental coverage through this program, which is a connection between your state and the federal government. Although all people under 21 receive dental coverage, only less than half of nations allow the same service to adul...
Washington State has expanded Medicaid, and it had more generous pre-expansion Medicaid income eligibility criterion compared to Texas. I find that emergency department use for non-urgent reasons was higher in Texas compared to the state of Washington in 2012. Additionally, i...
Emergency department utilization in the Texas Medicaid emergency waiver following Hurricane Katrina.doi:10.5600/MMRR.002.01.A01Troy QuastKaroline MortensenCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Avoidable Emergency Department Visits: Differences between Texas and Washington Medicaid EnrolleesEmergency departmentMedicaidWomen's healthChurningAcknowledgement: The researcher is grateful for funding from the Research Initiative in Human...Mandal, Bidisha...
Comparison of hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and the associated costs in a historical cohort of Texas Medicaid patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, by initial medication regimen. Clin Ther. 2007;29(6):1203-1213.