states do not have to offer Medicaid at all. They can opt into it. As of the 1980s, every state has chosen to do so, the above-mentioned KFF brief states. More recently, the program expanded significantly under the Affordable Care Act, butnot all states have opted...
Almost all (98%) were covered by public health insurance (e.g., Medicaid) and the remainder were uninsured. 42% of participants evidenced HIV viral suppression during the optimization trial. Alcohol use at a moderate-to-high risk level was common (61%), and less than half used cannabis (...
Waiver Interest Lists: Hopefully, years ago, you called your county’s LIDDA to get on the appropriate waiver interest lists for your child’s future. Google that if you need to. Maybe you don’t eventually need or want it. (Hallelujah!) It may be one of the hardest phone calls you e...
Telehealth has also helped boost OUD treatment among vulnerable communities. Research published in 2023 showed that the proportion of Medicaid beneficiaries who startedbuprenorphine treatment through telehealthrose from 2.4% to 16.3% in Kentucky and from 1.3% to 15.2% in Ohio. Further, a study ...
Mr. Niemann will offer continuing Education courses on “Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation”, “Hidden Secrets of Veterans Benefits”, “Veterans Aid and Attendance Benefits 2013”, “Medicaid Changes: The Approaching Storm”, and the “New NJ Comprehensive Waiver Demonstration”. ...
Joint Commission or CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] and improve staff knowledge... and comfortability that we were gonna do quarterly competencies.…So part of the quarter competency that I added for the ER was doing the tPA and stroke.” With respect to the influence of trai...
The study examines budget/purchase experiences of participants in the West Virginia's Medicaid Aged and Disabled Waiver program who completed an application for the purchase of goods/services between September 2009 and August 2011 (N=181). Results indicate that people with disabilities are interested ...
[39,62,63,65,68]. These articles all included White individuals. Of the two (n = 2/13, 15%) studies that reported the median time since HIV diagnosis [39], the average was 12.5 [63]- 21.5 [39] years. Medicaid was used as the patients’ primary health insurance in the USA ...
Persons living with HIV (PLWH) are living longer, although racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status (SES) disparities persist. Yet, little is known about the experience of living with and managing HIV over decades. The present study took a qualitative appr
Why not? Medicaid’s (government-provided health insurance for low-income patients) paying for it or whatever…but the doctor feels he don’t want to give him that medicine because they’re in bed with the pharmaceutical companies because the provider also get a little incentive. [The ...