Florida becomes the nation’s first state to allow doctors to perform C-sections outside of hospitals BYPhil GalewitzandKFF Health News May 30, 2024 Aging Well Despite surging demand for long-term care, providers struggle to find workers: ‘I can go to Walmart and make more money’ ...
” he said. “There’s a lot more work to be done to improve mental health care for all Americans, but making sure you can find a doctor when you need care is step one.”
[The Medicaid card] pays for medicine—whatever pills a doctor deems that the insured patient needs. …For a three-dollar Medicaid co-pay, therefore, addicts got pills priced at thousands of dollars, with the difference paid for by U.S. and state taxpayers. A user could turn around and ...
“Trying to find a doctor wasn’t always the easiest, because you have to call [so many] different places. Especially when it was a specialist. In the end, I couldn’t go get a second opinion, because there was only one that took Medicaid, it was super far away,” she said. “[M...
The following day, Saa said, advocates put her in touch with a point person at Florida's Medicaid agency who restored her benefits. A home health aide showed up April 12. Saa said she's thankful but feels anxious about the future. ...
20 Related Content: SDOH: The next frontier? Part 2: Referring to social services and supports | Fighting Food Insecurity in Florida | 4H Healthy Living Innovation SpotlightComplex care Complex care refers to services provided to high-need individuals who often require a higher level of care, res...
"Because of the Medicaid renewal process, which is often very paper-based, you have individuals in the program -- kids, families, parents -- losing coverage for a period of time and often not knowing it until they show back up at the doctor's office," he sa...
Many times, a patient covered by Medicaid will have to go through a specific course of treatment before major events are covered. For example,hip replacement surgerymay be covered, but you'll generally have to show that the condition hasn't responded to other treatments. Your doctor will need...
“When a parent receives a message that they aren’t eligible anymore, they often assume their child is no longer eligible either,” said Joan Alker, the center’s executive director. “It’s more common to find that the parent is no longer eligible for Medicaid, but the child still is...
WASHINGTON-- TheHouse GOP health care billhas competition from other Republicans, a group of governors who’ve made their own proposal about how to overhaul Medicaid for low-income people. They’re hoping GOP senators will find their ideas more persuasive. ...