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Jul 02 2024
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In wake of Supreme Court ruling, Biden administration tells doctors to provide emergency abortions
The Biden administration told emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s health, following last week's Supreme Court ruling that failed to settle a legal dispute over whether state abortion bans override a federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment. In a letter being sent Tuesday to doctor and hospital
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Feb 14 2023
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NC House may vote on Medicaid expansion bill as soon as Wednesday
A Medicaid expansion bill is moving by leaps and bounds in the North Carolina House and may be on track for a vote on the House floor as early as Wednesday. The bill, which would grant health coverage to thousands of low-income North Carolinians, flew through two House committees on Tuesday. Rep. Donny Lambeth, a Forsyth County Republican and one of the bill’s primary sponsors, told lawmakers
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Jul 01 2024
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Gov. Cooper unveils plan to erase medical debt for up to 2 million in North Carolina
North Carolinians struggling with medical debt could get reprieve under a new proposal unveiled by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and state Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley. If approved by federal officials, the plan that would leverage federal Medicaid funding to wipe away about $4 billion in hospital medical debt for up to 2 million low to middle-income families in the state,
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Jul 01 2024
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NC plan could forgive medical debt for some families
Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday announced a new initiative that could reduce or forgive some medical debt for North Carolina families. If the plan is approved, the state will use federal funds as an incentive for hospitals to forgive outstanding debts for low- and middle-income families while working proactively to ensure patients who are eligible for charity care are receiving it. At Monday's news
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Jul 01 2024
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Lamont marks HUSKY health coverage's expansion to cover undocumented kids 15 or younger in CT
During a 45-minute announcement and news conference in the sun-splashed parking lot of the Fair Haven Community Health Center on Grand Avenue, Nancy Aucapina, an immigrant from Ecuador, spoke of her 13-year-old daughter who in recent years was able to access HUSKY medical coverage. This year the legislation raised the maximum age for undocumented people to participate in HUSKY from 12 to age
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Jul 24 2023
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Arkansas Doctor Under Investigation For Allegedly Holding 26 Patients Against Their Will In Medicaid Scam
A top psychiatrist in Arkansas has been under investigation since May after 26 patients filed a lawsuit claiming he held them in a psychiatric unit against their will in an alleged Medicaid scam, according to NBC News. Dr. Brian Hyatt, one of the most prominent psychiatrists in Arkansas, is under investigation by state and federal officials following allegations of Medicaid fraud and false
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Feb 07 2023
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Texans brace for the end of nearly three years of pandemic Medicaid coverage
One day, Alexandria Robertson’s carefully crafted life suddenly started falling apart.
She returned from vacation in January 2020 to learn she’d been laid off from her corporate job in the Austin area. Her car was totaled in an accident. At the same time, she found out she was pregnant with her first child.
“I was pregnant. I had no job. I had no car. And I had no health
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Jul 01 2024
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Privatizing government is a win for greedy middlemen, fraudsters • Minnesota Reformer
If you are someone who generally roots for public policy to succeed, then you might have noticed that Minnesota is having a rough couple of months. In June, the state’s celebrated eBike rebate applications were postponed due to a website crash; last week, Attorney General Keith Ellison announced he would be charging five people with over $7 million in fraudulent Medicaid billings; and all of
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Jul 18 2023
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500,000 Texans have been dropped from the Medicaid rolls since April
Half a million Texans have lost their Medicaid coverage since April, mostly for procedural reasons like not responding to messages from the state.
Preliminary data, released Friday by the state’s Health and Human Services Commission, paints a grim picture of Texas’ early efforts to redetermine Medicaid eligibility for the first time since COVID-19 hit three years ago.
Nowhere was
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Jun 29 2024
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Ionia County board opposes proposed state approach to community mental health
The Ionia County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a resolution proposed by the Right Door opposing how the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS) has chosen to come into compliance with decade-old regulations.
A federal law from 2014 called the “Home and Community-Based Services Final Rule” requires that all state Medicaid agencies design and implement a
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