“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...
As a doctor and CEO of a hospital and health care group who has worked in health care for more than 30 years, I know from experience that cutting Medicaid won’t make health care more accessible, affordable or efficient for anyone. In fact, it will do the opposite: It will harm urban...
In this first study examining NAS and their association with MH care access, we did not find any statistically significant association between the adoption of quantitative NAS and improvement in MH care access among Medicaid-enrolled adults or among the subgroup with MH conditions. Our findings sugge...
“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...
“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...
More than half a million North Carolinians can’t see a doctor when they need one because reliable health insurance is out of reach. North Carolina can take advantage of available federal funding to get health coverage to those who really need it, as 37 other states have done - including ou...
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