Department of Health and Human Services can withstand judicial review. Recent precedent, beginning with the seminal Stewart v. Azar case, strongly suggests that a legal challenge would be successful on the merits. The features and justifications of Georgia Pathways to Coverage, examined in light of...
“There are over half a million Georgians who need health insurance, and the governor’s proposal falls well short of that, and we’re leaving federal dollars on the table that would help close the coverage gap in Georgia," said Democratic state Sen. Jason Esteves, ...
InGeorgia, 47-year-old Paul Mikell is all too familiar with those hoops. He's enrolled in Georgia's Pathways to Coverage plan, which offers Medicaid for a slice of impoverished people who make just too much to qualify for traditional Medicaid. Georgia, which has...
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Nearly every state hasextended Medicaid coveragefor women in the months after they give birth. But 10 states haven’t fully expanded Medicaid coverage with federal money made available under the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Seven of these states — Alabama, Florida,Georgia,Mississippi, South Carolina,...
If you can't afford to pay for healthcare, you may qualify for Medicaid. Medicaid is a public health insurance program for individuals and families with low incomes that's jointly financed by the federal government and states. In this article, you'll learn how Medicaid works, who qualifies,...
Improvement was also seen in blood sugar control — 2 percentage points overall; 4 percentage points among Black folks; and nearly 3 percentage points among Hispanic patients, the researchers reported. "Once a patient gains health insurance coverage, associated health outcomes likely do...
1 Although overdose mortality may have stabilized in the past year, rates remain inordinately high. The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law during the rise in overdose deaths. Designed to increase access to and improve the quality of health insurance coverage...
Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG). Each of the MAC jurisdictions was found by the OIG to...more The First 100 Days: By the Numbers McDermott+ on 5/1/2025 To state the obvious, a lot has happened in healthcare over the first 100 days of ...
To further refine the sample, we included only patients from states with substantial representation (>1000 patients) in the OCHIN network: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, ...