we are the experts. You need to understand that Medicaid qualification (including asset protection) is a financial issue, not a legal issue. As Medicaid financial experts, we specialize in helping families properly arrange their finances to meet nursing home eligibility guidelines for the Oregon Medi...
Although states determine MMC enrollment (exempt, voluntary, or mandatory) based on Medicaid eligibility categories (eg, low-income adults; aged, blind, or disabled), data on the NSDUH respondents’ Medicaid eligibility categories and corresponding category-specific MMC penetration rates were not availab...
1 Under the ACA, beginning in 2014, all nonelderly US citizens and permanent residents (with more than 5 years of residency) with an income up to 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL) became eligible for Medicaid. However, a number of states have not expanded eligibility for Medicaid, ...
factors in determining eligibility: geography, age, income and resources, residency, disability status (so long as any standard relating to such status does not restrict eligibility), access to other health insurance, and duration of eligibility for SCHIP coverage. 7Under limited circumstances, states...
state variability is the rule rather than the exception in terms of eligibility levels, covered services, and how those services are reimbursed and delivered. Historically, eligibility was generally limited to low-income children, pregnant women, parents of dependent children, the elderly, and people...
Regarding the adult-use marijuana states, 3 of the 4 states (ie, Alaska, Colorado, and Oregon) had significantly lower opioid prescribing rates associated with the implementation of adult-use marijuana laws, whereas the change in Washington was relatively moderate. Furthermore, the implementation of...
Of Oregon women who retained coverage through 90 days after delivery, 56.6–78.1% (based on the two definitions) received any postpartum care, including postpartum visits (26.5%-71.8%), contraceptive services (30.7–35.6%), or other routine preventive health services (38.5–39.1%). Excluding da...
The number of enrollees that met eligibility criteria varied by study year, from a low of 20,233 in 2010 to a high of 114,681 in 2014 (following Medicaid expansion in Oregon). As summarized in Tables 1, 55.4% of eligible enrollees were female; mean age was 56.3 years old. Over ...
8 One of the mandates of the ACA, which became effective on January 1, 2014, was to expand the eligibility of Medicaid programs to include nonelderly adults with income up to 138% of the federal poverty level.8 In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled to allow individual states to opt-out of ...
Abstract Importance State decisions to expand Medicaid eligibility were particularly consequential for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), which serve 30 million low-income patients across the US. The longer-term association of Medicaid expansion with health outcomes at FQHCs is unknown. Objective...