New York Magazine By: Sarah Jones Days after the Trump administration finalized a proposal that will kick hundreds of thousands of people off food stamps, the state of South Carolina delivered its own special holiday present to the poor. On Thursday afternoon, Seema Verma, the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, joined […]
Modern Healthcare By: Harris Meyer South Carolina will become the first state to apply Medicaid work requirements to parents of minor children with incomes under 100% of the federal poverty level, after the CMS approved the state’s waiver request Thursday… South Carolina’s waiver approval may be even more vulnerable to a legal challenge than those in […]
Los Angeles Times By: Michael Hiltzik Seema Verma, the federal official in charge of Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, has blasted into the limelight after more than two years operating in the shadows of the Department of Health and Human Services… On Thursday, she appeared in Greenville, S.C., shoulder to shoulder with South Carolina […]
Healthcare Dive By: Rebecca Pifer Though the Trump administration heralds work requirements as a key to lift low-income Americans out of poverty, critics warn they will drop the most vulnerable from a safety net program meant to ensure access to care… According to a January report from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children […]
Healthcare Dive By: Samantha Liss Centene, the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care provider, wants Congress to change the eligibility requirements around Medicaid, the government-sponsored safety net program that covers one in five low-income Americans.”It would be a very major change. I certainly don’t see that happening. It’s opening up the ACA and as we know […]
WCPO Cincinnati By: Mariel Carbone More than 41,000 kids under the age of six are uninsured in the state of Ohio, and that number has been increasing over the last two years… “If you don’t access the necessary healthcare, it could impact them for a lifetime,” said Angela Robinson, outreach and enrollment manager with the […]
