(in 2024). Regular/State Plan Medicaid may have lower income limits. They are oftentimes equal to the SSI limit ($943/month in 2024), or equal to the federal poverty level ($1,255/month in 2024). However, there is a great range in income and asset limits within the states. There ...
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21-24 The restricted-use data provided geographic identifiers (including state and county) in addition to the data available in public-use files, allowing us to link the NSDUH with Area Health Resources Files and the 2016-2019 MMC enrollment reports.25 The protocol and results of this study we...
“To date, little has been known about the effects of Medicaid income eligibility limits on cancer outcomes,” said lead author Jingxuan Zhao, MPH, an associate scientist at ASCO, in a press release. “Our research provides strong evidence that state expansion of Medicaid is associated with bett...
Mounting evidence suggests that FDA-approved weight loss medications, such as Wegovy, not only help patients lose weight but also protect against complications from obesity such as cardiovascular disease. In 2021, 40 percent of patients enrolled in Medic
In 2008, rates of breast cancer screening among low-income women were similar throughout the United States regardless of whether their state had expanded Medicaid. In 2012, however, low-income women in states with expanded Medicaid were 25% more likely to have received a mammogram compared ...
The Louisiana Department of Health protects and promotes health and ensures access to medical, preventive and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the State of Louisiana.
As of August 2015, 22 states declined expanding Medicaid; most of these are in the South, the US region with the highest proportion of uninsured individuals.1 Medical students will inherit the reformed health care system and thus are stakeholders in these state decisions. We surveyed medical ...
citizens would be forced to go without coverage, while legal immigrants residing in the same state could still get it. It’s an unintended consequence of how last year’s Supreme Court decision changed the Medicaid provisions of President Barack Obama’s health care law. The overhaul...
Furthermore, 56 counties in 5 states (Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, and Massachusetts) were excluded from the regression because of perfect prediction resulting from the use of state indicators (ie, all counties in these 5 states had ≥1 facility that accepted Medicaid); this yielded ...