Arkansas was the first state to enact work requirements in 2018, but a federal appeals court ultimately struck down the move in 2020, finding that HHS had acted unlawfully. As The Washington Post reported, House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) backs a “responsible and reasona...
Arkansas is not the only state where Medicaid recipients who gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act disregard the new premiums. Tens of thousands of Medicaid enrollees in four other states that added premiums during the past four years— Indiana, Michigan, Iowa and Montana — have also opt...
In Arkansas, the odds of having migrated increase by about 48% in its border regions after the Medicaid expansion compared to before and control regions. If all additional migrants take up Medicaid, the number of Medicaid beneficiaries in these regions increases by approximately 4%. Thus, even ...
More than 100 people representing dozens of organizations met to help develop the recommendations, the committee's report said. Other recommendations called for creating a dashboard to track key maternal health indicators, increasing the number of obstetrics and gynecology ...
work activities for a specific number of hours each month.10 Arkansas was the first state to implement this policy and it resulted in 18,000 people losing health care coverage. However, this policy was repeatedly blocked in federal courts and Arkansas has suspended the requirements.1112...
Arkansas’ plan tightens its eligibility requirements for its state Medicaid program, leaving a greater share of the newly insured population to seek a plan on the exchange (income thresholds would be ratcheted down to a mere 17% of the federal poverty level, covering those with incomes up to ...
Number of Yearly Patients With Medicaid Insurance According to Year of Diagnosis From 2010-2016 Among Patients With De Novo Stage IV Breast Cancer in States That Underwent Medicaid Expansion in January 2014 eTable 3. Sensitivity Analyses of Multivariable Cox Proportional Hazards Models for Preexpansion...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently entered contracts with a number of private companies to function as Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPIC). These are similar to the Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC), but have different functions from the RACs. ZPICs have contr...
The Johnson Dermatology Medicaid Walk-in Clinic gives our patients timely access to care in the face of lengthening wait times for our appointments. A limited number of patients will be seen on a first come first served basis. The Medicaid Walk-in Clinic will occur on the 1st & 3rd Thursday...
24 The main intervention of interest was the expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the ACA. The following states expanded Medicaid eligibility effective January 1, 2014: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, ...