GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Enrollment in North Carolina’s new Medicaid coverage for low-income adults has nearly reached the state's goal of 600,000 in half of the time initially projected, Gov. Roy Cooper said on Wednesday while celebrating theone-year ...
The article reports that the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will increase enrollment and total spending for the program in all states based on an annual report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Health Management Associates in 2013. The report...
In so-called expansion states, enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP jumped by 8.3 percent, compared with an increase of just 1.6 percent in nonexpansion states. At total of 26 states and Washington, D.C., have expanded eligibility to allow enrollment for most people under age 65 who earn up to...
Thursday's report by the Kaiser Family Foundation found Medicaid enrollments in the states slowed considerably to an increase of just 2.7 percent in fiscal year 2017. By comparison, states reported a 13.9 percent increase in enrollment during fiscal year 2015 following implementation of former Presiden...
byWiley Researchers have found that Medicaid expansion increased Medicaid enrollment among people who received liver transplants funded by commercial insurance. The findings are published inLiver Transplantation. Because liver transplant recipients in the United States have low rates of paid employment, many...
…Medicaid has grown into the largest health care program in the country by enrollment, with 66 million participants and with annual federal and state costs of more than $550 billion. …Medicaid spending has increased rapidly nearly every year since the program was enacted, creating significant ...
Some data are missing by state and year, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services report data quality issues for some data sources for some states in some years.32 Because of the consistent enrollment in Medicaid of adults with Down syndrome in our data, we were able to use all 9...
In addition California provides solely state-funded FP services to women and men with incomes below 200% of the poverty level. Some of these approaches pose outreach challenges and states have adopted different strategies to extend eligibility to the target population. Data on program enrollment ...
The record enrollment in both Medicaid and CHIP was attributed to the impact of the coronavirus public health emergency and specifically, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act passed by Congress in March 2020. It provided U.S. states with a temporary 6.2% payment increase to cover anticipated...
The annual Medicare open enrollment period runs from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7 every year. 2024 Medicare Costs at a Glance Medicaid Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps low-income Americans of all ages pay for the costs associated with medical andlong-term custodial care.2Childre...