doi:urn:uuid:3629c75d24d9b410VgnVCM100000d7c1a8c0RCRDAnthem has closed its purchase of Florida Medicaid managed care provider Simply Healthcare Holdings Inc., as the nation's second-largest health insurer continues to expand its government business.Fox Business...
States have cut Medicaid’s reimbursement so low that many providers simply refuse to treat its beneficiaries. …Block grants promise to break Medicaid’s vicious cycle of rising costs and declining care. Spendthrift politicians would no longer be able to expand Medicaid and expect the federal ...
I conclude that efforts to expand primary care capacity should focus on provider recruitment to underserved communities, rather than simply training more providers. Second, I examine whether it is possible to obtain an unbiased estimate of health care use conditional on Medicaid take-up, from non-...
” said Meera Nagaraj, second-year medical student at UNC-Chapel Hill. “As UNC health professional students, faculty and providers, we regularly witness the harm to our patients caused by the
This report also highlighted concerns about the diversity of the workforce: although health care providers from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely than their white peers to practice in minority and underserved communities,35 racial/ethnic minorities are underrepresented among behavioral ...
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients. By Jake Gaffey, MBA, Chief Strategy Officer at Shields Health Solutions “This is not something that you say once,” said John Baackes, CEO ofL.A...
“The one thing we do know that among people who are disenrolled, they are more likely to report skipping or delaying needed care than those who were able to easily renew their coverage,” Tolbert said. “Was this someone who never got a renewal notice, so simply didn’t even know that...
Your REC could be signing up a boatload of providers coming in on the Medicaid side, and if your state opts out, well you now have what’s known as “Reputation Risk” writ large (not to mention a torpedo below the waterline in your Ops plan and its milestone payments assumptions). ...
These are also areas in which Medicaid agencies and healthcare providers reported having the strongest existing community partnerships. Criminal justice involvement and intimate partner violence were among the least measured SDH but were recognized as important untapped populations and exposures for future ...
Many survey questions were drawn from standard Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys, a national standardized survey tool developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.26 Sampling We employed proportionate stratified random sampling to ensure that perspectives from ...