About 500,000 children and families have had their Medicaid reinstated after some states erroneously purged them because of a systems issue, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) said Thursday.
But Joan Alker, the executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, said "there's no way to achieve those savings without cutting health care for millions of seniors in nursing homes, children, parents, veterans, caregivers, people with cancer or disabilities." ...
(CNN) -- Some 500,000 children and families have had their Medicaid coverage reinstated after many states improperly terminated their enrollment because of a systems issue, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Thursday. At issue is the states' use of existing data to automatically ...
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(CHIP) for their health care, including 34.2 million children – or 54 percent of children in America. It is predicted that approximately 15 million people may lose their coverage due to the unwinding. Children and families in Texas, Florida, and other states that have not expanded Medicaid ...
Monitoring Medicaid outreach and expansion to families with young childrenImplications: There appear to be improving trends in measures pertaining to early and sustained enrollment in the Medicaid program, as well as early initiation and receipt of comprehensive preventive visits among infants, according ...
Outpatient Pediatric Aids Clinics (OPACS) provide specialty care, consultation and counseling services for HIV-infected and exposed Medicaid children and their families. We then determined the population of Medicaid children and youth under the age of 21 based on the persons age in their first month...
The first step to qualify for Medicaid is that you need to be a citizen of the United States. Three groups of people are automatically entitled to Medicaid: pregnant women of any age, children aged eighteen or under (the age rises to twenty one in certain states) and families who have yo...
“This new state plan option is about ensuring that children and families can get coordinated, high-quality care—particularly children with complex medical conditions. CMS is committed to working with states interested in pursuing this option to ensure they can quickly and efficiently...
Using the data, the agency said researchers will focus on autism diagnosis trends, health outcomes from medical or behavioral outcomes, access to care based on demographics and geography as well the economic burden of autism on families and health care systems.The problem is that this isnt the ...