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Mar 14 2024
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Amendments establishing single Va. Medicaid pharmacy benefits manager die in conference • Virginia Mercury
A pair of Virginia budget amendments that would have required the state to contract with a sole prescription management vendor to administer the commonwealth’s Medicaid prescription drug benefits died in conference last month. Some independent pharmacists said the conferees’ decision cost Virginia the chance to save over $30 million in the state budget, and the opportunity to increase
Virginia MercuryFeb 26 2024
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Cyberattack leaves Utah pharmacies unable to get paid for filling Medicaid prescriptions
The Utah Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to reduce the impact of a vendor network outage that is keeping Medicaid members from filling their prescriptions. "We didn't cause the problem, but we are owning a solution," said Tracy Gruber, executive director of the department. She said the department will do everything it can to get needed medications to its Medicaid members and
Deseret NewsDec 18 2023
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Kansas needs to better inform its residents of Medicaid eligibility guidelines, Medicaid Inspector General finds
Hastings TribuneJan 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 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 2Feb 28 2024
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Medicaid expansion proposal advances through Republican-led Mississippi House, will go to Senate
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led House passed a bill Wednesday that would expand Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands more residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S. — a landmark shift after state leaders refused to consider the policy for years. The bill’s passage was greeted by applause in the House chamber following a bipartisan 96-20 vote. It now heads to
The Seattle TimesFeb 21 2024
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Woman ordered to pay more than $148,000 in restitution for Medicaid fraud
HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - A woman from Enfield pleaded guilty and was sentenced for defrauding Medicaid. Mary Taliceo, 49, entered her plea in Hartford Superior Court on Tuesday, according to the state Division of Criminal Justice. Taliceo pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree larceny by defrauding a public community, a class B felony. She was sentenced to four years in prison, execution
WFSBFeb 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 ProudJan 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
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