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Feb 19 2024
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Iowa Senate Republicans pass bill that would extend postpartum Medicaid coverage
DES MOINES, Iowa — Senate Republicans passed a bill, introduced by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, that would extend the length of time individuals can receive Medicaid postpartum coverage. The bill passed on party lines by a vote of 34 to 16. The bill would allow for low-income Iowans to receive postpartum coverage for 12 months instead of the 60 days that Iowa code currently allows. But, the
Siouxland ProudFeb 05 2024
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Idaho legislature debates Medicaid coverage, immunization, maternal mortality
Child immunization data, pregnancy and postpartum, and maternal mortality rates were all on the docket today in from of the House Health and Welfare Committee. The first on their agenda was RS- 31126, a draft on Medicaid about pregnancy and postpartum. It was held in committee as the fiscal information did not add up. House Bill 397 was next on the agenda, it moved to amend Idaho code. The
KBOI 2Jan 25 2024
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Senate wants Medicaid work vote in November election
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Every Republican senator present on Thursday said yes to putting the question of a Medicaid work requirement on South Dakota’s November ballot. The 28-4 vote advances SJR501 to the House of Representatives, where a similar measure passed last year. Senate Democratic leader Reynold Nesiba urged that it not go forward. He disagreed that it would be a “clarifying question”
KelolandJan 24 2024
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Voters might see Medicaid work-requirement this fall
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota voters could be asked whether they favor making Medicaid recipients work. The Legislature has authority to put questions on the ballot, and a Republican-led effort began heading in that direction on Wednesday. The Senate State Affairs Committee endorsed SJR501. The panel’s 7-1 vote along political party lines sends to the full Senate the proposed amendment to
KelolandFeb 29 2024
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Medicaid Expansion bill now resides in Senate; No word on when it’ll come up for a vote
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Following a historic vote by the House of Representatives to expand Medicaid, what happens next? Well, the bill now goes over to the Senate. However, Senators have their own Medicaid Expansion bill they want to take up first before taking up the House’s bill. ”This has been a tremendous leap for Mississippi,” said Sylvia-Nicole Cecchi, who’s the Project Coordinator for
WLBT 3Jan 29 2024
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Overnight News Digest: Abortion and Medicaid return to court in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s supreme court ruled on Monday that a lower court must hear a case challenging a ban on the use of government-funded healthcare to pay for abortions, raising hopes among reproductive rights advocates for an expansion of abortion access in the state and the establishment of a constitutional right to the procedure. The case, brought by abortion providers in the state, challenged a
Daily KosDec 18 2023
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Kansas needs to better inform its residents of Medicaid eligibility guidelines, Medicaid Inspector General finds
Hastings TribuneFeb 17 2024
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More than 350,000 North Carolinians have enrolled in Medicaid since December 1
RALEIGH — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra joined Gov. Roy Cooper and N.C. Health and Human Services Secretary Kody H. Kinsley in Raleigh Friday for a Medicaid expansion roundtable with beneficiaries and providers. Together they discussed the monumental impact Medicaid expansion is having for the more than 350,000 individuals who are now enrolled in the program since it
Iredell Free NewsJan 24 2024
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Medicaid work requirement initiative slides through Senate committee
PIERRE, S.D. (South Dakota Broadcasters Association) - South Dakota voters could decide in November whether or not the state should be allowed to implement a work requirement for people under the state’s recently expanded Medicaid program. Freshman Representative Tony Venhuizen’s resolution to put the question before general election voters easily cleared the Senate State Affairs Committee
Dakota News NowFeb 19 2024
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Medicaid would cover post-birth care longer, but for fewer Iowans, under governor’s bill
Republicans say the proposal expands postpartum care for low-income Iowans who need it most, while Democrats say it expands care for some low-income Iowans at the expense of coverage for others DES MOINES — Roughly 1,700 Iowa mothers and infants would lose their Medicaid coverage for post-birth care under legislation that also would expand the period of time that care is covered for the Iowans
Cedar Rapids Gazette