Changes to Medicaid policy in response to the pandemic made it much easier for everyone enrolled in Medicaid to keep their coverage. To illustrate, just over half of Wisconsin's Medicaid growth in 2020 came from that statekeeping existing enrollees in the programwho might otherwise have lost cove...
"For the parents that may have lost a job or had another life change during the pandemic, having access to coverage for themselves and their kids is life-changing." January’s Medicaid enrollment of 73,759,632 million Americans was the highest since the CMS began tracking enrollment data in...
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" CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said in the statement. "For the parents that may have lost a job or had another life change during the pandemic, having access to coverage for themselves and their kids is life-changing."
Carter could be a potentially influential voice in the efforts to cut spending through the advisory group, given his background and potential power over health care legislation. A pharmacist, Carter has focused on regulations for the drug-pricing middlemen known as pharmacy benefit manag...
The proportion of children enrolled in Medicaid managed care arrangements has grown significantly over the past decade. Yet, few studies have attempted to assess differences in parental reports and ratings of care for children enrolled in different types of Medicaid managed care. We examine parental ...
“It will not pass this year,” he said, “because there’s not the votes for it.” He estimated slightly over 50 representatives support it, short of the 63 required to pass legislation. Concannon disagrees with that logic. She thinks there are a lot of Re...
The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the largest purchaser of healthcare in the nation – serving almost 123 million people, more than one in three Americans. CMS is responsible for administering and overseeing three of the nation’s largest ongoing healthcare programs: Me...
In a statement to the Tribune, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services made clear that as long as states work within “broad federal parameters,” they have autonomy to make decisions about their programs. School district officials say Texas has resorted to overcorrecting problems identified ...
By contrast, 18% of the 250,000 people in Florida were removed in May because they were ineligible, KFF found, usually meaning they'd found employer-sponsored health care or they now made too much money to qualify for the low-income program and were transferre...