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No Changes to Child Core Set of Health Care Quality Measures in Medicaid and CHIP for 2019
CMS has announced that the Child Core Set of Quality Measures in Medicaid and CHIP will remain the same for 2019. No new measures will be introduced, nor will any 2018 measures be retired. CMS is required to review the core measures annually, and does so in partnership with the National Quality Forum (NQF) and…
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Children’s Health Coverage Shrank In Utah Last Year, Reversing Decade-Long Growth
KUER 90.1 By: Erik Neumann For the first time in nearly a decade, fewer kids in Utah have health coverage, according to a new report from Georgetown University. KUER’s Erik Neumann spoke with Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families about the new report and what’s behind this trend.…
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CMS Posts New Medicaid and CHIP Application Processing Time Report
Say Ahhh! readers know that I have long been frustrated at the delay in releasing state-level performance indicator data in Medicaid and CHIP. While CMS has posted enrollment and application data for some time, data on the remaining performance indicators – which were announced in September 2013 (that’s more than five years ago!) – have…
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The Importance of Medicaid to Kentucky’s Rural Areas is Eye Popping
In 2017, we embarked on a new project with the Rural Health Research Program at the University of North Carolina Sheps Center for Health Services Research to examine the role of Medicaid in rural areas and small towns. In our first report, Medicaid is a Lifeline for Small Towns and Rural Communities, we highlighted the…
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Report: Wisconsin Loses Gains in Kids’ Health Coverage
Wisconsin News Connection By: Trimmel Gomes For the first time in a decade, the number of children without health coverage in the United States has gone up. According to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Children and Families, the number of uninsured kids rose by more than 275,000 in 2017, and nearly…
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Rate of Uninsured Children Worsens in Missouri, Nationwide
Missouri News Service By: Suzanne Potter About 75,000 children in Missouri lacked health insurance in 2017, or about 5.1 percent, according to a new report from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. That’s a small increase over 2016 and is just above the national average, which increased from 4.7 to 5 percent. The report…
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Surprising drop in the number of Tenn. kids covered by health insurance
WMOT By: Mike Osborne A new study shows an alarming drop in the number of children covered by health insurance, and Tennessee is singled out in the report as one of the worst cases. The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families says the number of uninsured children rose in 2017 after eight years of…
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Report finds Arkansas kids uninsured for health coverage
Newton County Times The number of uninsured children nationwide increased by about 276,000 children last year, the first significant increase in a decade, according to a new report released by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. An estimated 3.9 million children were uninsured nationwide in 2017. The analysis shows that in Arkansas, the…
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Report finds number of uninsured children in Utah up more than 20 percent
Deseret News By: Ladd Egan After years of decline, the number of uninsured children across the country is up, and Utah is one of the states that saw a big jump. The number of uninsured children in the state jumped more than 20 percent last year, according to a new report from Georgetown University’s Center…
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Unease seen behind rise in uninsured kids
My Journal Courier By: Mary Kuhlman New data shows the number of uninsured children in Illinois rose about 8 percent last year, and advocates said they’re worried federal policies could thwart future progress. Researchers with the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families found that for the first time in a decade, the number of children…
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Texas This Week: Cuts to funding for Texas babies with disabilities
KVUE By: Ashley Goudeau Goudeau: As if these cuts to ECI funding wasn’t enough, you guys are also releasing this week a study that you did in joint with the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families that looked into insurance rates for children, and it doesn’t look good for Texas. Clark: “It does not…
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Number of S.D. children without health insurance increases
KELO AM-FM By: Roz Brown For the first time in a decade, the number of children without health coverage in the U.S. has gone up. According to a new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, the number of uninsured children rose by more than 275,000 in 2017, and South Dakota’s percentage…
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Dec. 15 deadline to purchase health insurance through federal exchange
Osceola News-Gazette By: Charlie Reed Dec. 15 is the deadline for people — not covered by employer plans – to get healthcare insurance for 2019. There were 52,000 uninsured residents in Osceola County in 2017, according to the latest U.S. Census data. That’s about 15 percent of the total population. … Florida did not expand…
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Arkansas Children Lacking Health Insurance on the Rise
KATV By: Zack Briggs A new study indicates youth without health insurance across the nation including Arkansas increased from 2016 to 2017. The report, which was conducted by the Georgetown University Center, shows the number of children under age 19 rose an estimated 276,000 to 3.92 million. That’s a “historic low” of 4.7 percent in…
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Number of uninsured children rising in Mass.
The Daily News of Newburyport By: Christian M. Wade The number of children without health insurance is rising in Massachusetts for the first time in years, according to a report that blames divisive national politics for the reversal. An estimated 20,000 children in the state didn’t have health insurance in 2017, an increase of about…
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Amy Klobuchar: Number, rate of children without insurance rises
PolitiFact By: Jon Greenberg The uninsurance rate is one of the main barometers for how the country is doing on health care. In that vein, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., sounded the alarm. “After a decade of progress, the rate of uninsured children is now rising,” Klobuchar tweeted Dec. 3. “This is very troublesome. Every child…
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Is the U.S. Health Care System Trending the Wrong Way?
Politico By: Dan Diamond Youth uninsured numbers: going up. ACA enrollment: sharply down. Life expectancy: still sliding. A series of recent reports are showing cracks in the nation’s public health, and it’s not clear if the Trump administration’s policies are helping. “To borrow Ronald Reagan’s line, is the health care system better off than it…
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Proposed Changes to Medicaid Managed Care Rule Will Reduce Access to Providers
One year ago, CMS Administrator Seema Verma gave a major policy address to state Medicaid directors in which she promised to “rollback burdensome regulations that the federal government has imposed on states.” She specifically targeted two, both of which were issued by the prior administration: the Access Rule (November 2015), and the Managed Care Rule…
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Military Kids Need Medicaid Too
By: LCDR Anthony P. Putney, USN (ret.) — Father and caregiver to Lily I’m a veteran of the United States Navy, a nurse and parent to four children along with my wife, Carie. I work hard today to provide for my family, and I spent 23 years in active service to the nation. Knowing all this,…
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Under Trump, the number of uninsured kids is suddenly rising
Vox The number of uninsured children in America is on the rise. An estimated 3.9 million children were uninsured in 2017, according to new research from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, up from 3.6 million in 2016. Every state saw an increase in their share of uninsured children; Washington, D.C. did not. Two charts tell the story:…
