Modern Healthcare By: Shelby Livingston A federal judge’s recent decision to vacate a 2014 CMS rule that UnitedHealthcare said resulted in underpayment for Medicare Advantage insurers leaves the federal government with fewer tools to combat upcoding practices that cost the taxpayer-funded Medicare program billions of dollars. … Edwin Park, research professor at Georgetown University’s Center […]
WJXT News4Jax By: Christine Sexton More than 2.6 million people in Florida lacked health insurance at some point in 2017, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. That means about 12.9 percent of the state’s population last year was uninsured — up from 12.5 percent in 2016 — as Florida continued to […]
Bloomberg By: John Tozzi An Arkansas policy backed by the Trump administration that requires people to have a job or lose Medicaid coverage will drop 4,353 people from the health program. … “Proponents of work requirements have it backwards,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University. “Providing […]
My Palm Beach Post By: Anne Swerlick It seems counterintuitive, but Medicaid work requirements actually take health coverage away from workers. That’s because workers get tripped up by new red tape, paperwork and bureaucratic hurdles, such as having to report their hours through faulty online portals. Similarly, people with disabilities or caregivers also end up […]
Mississippi Public Broadcasting By: Desare Frazier As Mississippi’s Division of Medicaid waits for a decision on it’s work requirement application, health advocates wonder what the projected cost will be to the state. Mississippi State Division of Medicaid’s application for a work requirement would mean recipients would have to work 20 hours per week to keep healthcare […]
Vox By: Dylan Scott Poor people in Arkansas are officially starting to lose their Medicaid coverage because of work requirements. It’s that simple. Georgetown University’s Joan Alker looks at the data (emphasis mine): State data show that during the first two months of the Medicaid work requirement, implementation has been deeply flawed and has not […]
