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Hospitals Lobby Hard for Medicaid Expansion
Hospitals stand to lose billions of dollars in states that don’t expand Medicaid. They won’t accept those cuts without a fight. more
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Ex-Felons Are About to Get Health Coverage
Health care will be available to former prisoners through Medicaid. more
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Expanding Medicaid with Private Insurance
Arkansas and Ohio are pursuing a “private option” for expanding Medicaid. more
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Health Care Cuts From Vaccinations to Research
Automatic cuts to federal health-care programs may make it more difficult for low-income Americans to get maternal and infant care, vaccinate their children, and receive treatment for mental illness. more
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Disability Prevalence Among Income-Based Government Assistance Recipients
What share of Americans on income-based government assistance are disabled in each state? The U.S. average is just over 30 percent. more
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Combating Medicaid Fraud and Abuse
States are targeting Medicaid fraud and abuse with an array of policies and tools. To help policy makers learn about steps taken in their state and across the country, the State Health Care Spending Project created an online database containing hundreds of practices found to be promising by state and federal Medicaid agencies.
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Interview: A Southern Medicaid Director’s Perspective on Health Care Reform
North Carolina’s Medicaid chief has been around the program long enough to know that expanding the program isn’t the only way to deliver health care to the uninsured. more
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Update: Health Care Exchanges
With their deadline past, 26 states have not taken steps to establish their own health care exchanges, thereby defaulting to a federally run operation in their states. more
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Luring Primary Care Docs into Medicaid
Fearing a shortage of primary care doctors who will take Medicaid patients after the 2014 expansion of the program, Congress has passed la temporary pay raise. more
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Seizing Medicaid Expansion as a Means to Reform
Alabama aims to make its Medicaid program more efficient, before expanding it. Under consideration is a regional care plan developed in Oregon. more