Media Coverage
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Panelists: Take Medicaid Concerns to Legislators, Feds
The Topeka Capital-Journal March 5, 2012 By Andy Marso A four-person panel of health care policy experts told providers and advocates Monday it might be time to take their concerns about Gov. Sam Brownback’s managed care Medicaid plan to the Legislature or the federal government. Several in the audience at the Topeka and Shawnee County…
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Friday, Mar. 3: Children’s Health
Mississippi Public Broadcasting March 3, 2012 How will the coming changes in Mississippi’s health care system affect your children? Wesley Prater, a senior health analyst at Georgetown University, explains how the Obama health care bill will provide coverage for more kids. In 2014, more than half of Mississippi’s children will be able to get health…
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Half of All Mississippi Kids Could Soon Be on Medicaid or CHIP
Mississippi Public Broadcasting March 1, 2012 By Jeffrey Hess New research shows that the recent health care overhaul could mean a growing number of Mississippi kids will get their health insurance through the government. MPB’s Jeffrey Hess reports child welfare advocates see the expansion as good news for the health of Mississippi’s youngest residents. When the…
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Ohio Still Must Set Up Federally Mandated Health Exchanges
Dayton Daily News March 1, 2012 Ben Sutherly, Staff Writer COLUMBUS — Deadlines loom for Ohio and other states to set up federally mandated health exchanges, intensifying debate over whether taking action or waiting for information carries the higher price tag. Health-insurance exchanges — in effect, marketplaces set up in which lower-income Ohioans and small…
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CMS Denies Florida Bid to Raise Medicaid Cost-Sharing
American Medical News February 24, 2012 By Doug Trapp Florida cannot require its poorer Medicaid enrollees to pay premiums or large co-payments, according to a Feb. 9 decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The move is a setback for Florida’s request to expand Medicaid managed care to nearly all of its 3…
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Georgetown University Report Finds Children’s Health Law Has Worked Well
WASHINGTON, DC — Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families released a progress report on the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), which was signed into law three years ago. Since its enactment, the law has helped drive the number of uninsured children down by one million. The new law, which…
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CHIPRA – an Accomplishment to Be Proud Of
The Hill January 30, 2012 Members of Congress aren’t getting a lot of credit for things they got right these days so we would like to point one out—passage of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA). On the anniversary of the Children’s Health Insurance Program reauthorization, let’s celebrate a popular law that was…
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Florida Plans to Slash Medicaid Funds Ahead of Health Reform
Government Health IT January 30, 2012 Florida Governor Rick Scott wants to rein in state spending and has proposed using Medicaid as the major tool with which to fill in its $2 billion shortfall. Scott released his proposed budget for 2012-13 last month in which he plans to cut $2 billion from Medicaid payments to…
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States Maintain or Ease Access to Medicaid and CHIP
American Medical News January 27, 2012 Twenty-nine states lowered cost-sharing, increased eligibility or improved enrollment systems in 2011, according to a survey. By DOUG TRAPP, amednews staff. Posted Jan. 27, 2012. Washington — Despite continued budget pressures on states, far more states eased than tightened access to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program in…
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Failed Health-Care Experiment
Tampa Bay Online January 22, 2012 The federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is being asked to grant Florida a waiver to expand a managed-care experiment for Medicaid recipients across the state. I am urging the federal government to deny the waiver. The Florida Legislature’s planned conversion of Medicaid into private managed-care plans has…
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South Carolina Shares Safety-Net Data to Improve Medicaid
Government Health IT January 20, 2012 South Carolina has received kudos for improving its methods to expand and retain eligible children in Medicaid by using information from other safety-net programs, such as food stamps, for enrollment. At the same time, the technical tools to share data and the efficiency they generate also reduce state administrative…
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States Turn to Technology to Improve Medicaid and CHIP Programs
GOVERNING January 19, 2012 Budgetary pressures and the pending requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) defined 2011 for Medicaid and Children Health Insurance Programs (CHIP). But according to the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured’s annual 50-state survey on eligibility, enrollment, renewal and cost-sharing in Medicaid and CHIP released this week, states maintained…
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Medicaid Enrollment Steady in 2011, Report Finds
MedPage Today January 19, 2012 WASHINGTON — Enrollment in state Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) remained steady in 2011 and into 2012, and some states made it easier for low-income people to have coverage, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Read the Full Article
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Mass. “Culture Of Coverage” Is Key To Near-Universal Children’s Health Insurance
WBUR January 20, 2012 It’s not the sexiest label for a state to have, clearly, but Massachusetts’ ‘culture of coverage,’ is one of the main reasons that 99.5% of children here have health insurance (as of 2010), the highest rate in the nation, according to a new analysis of four geographically diverse states that have…
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Enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP Remained Stable in 2011, Report Finds
California Healthline January 19, 2012 The number of U.S. residents who had health insurance through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program remained stable in 2011, despite a struggling economy that created budget strains for states and forced more individuals into poverty, according to a report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured…
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Medicaid Enrollment Steady with Tech Overhauls
Fierce HealthIT January 19, 2012 Half of states boasted easier enrollment into the Medicaid program last year by revamping decades-old systems and streamlining eligibility and enrollment systems, according a report [1] released yesterday by the Kaiser Family Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, conducted with the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. The 50-state…
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Feds Helped States Increase Insurance Coverage For Children In The Midst Of An Economic Recovery
Think Progress January 19, 2012 Yesterday, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured released their annual report outlining trends in Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility, enrollment, renewal, and cost-sharing policies in all fifty states. As families continue to struggle in a weak economy, Medicaid and CHIP remain essential sources of healthcare…
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States Ease Barrier to Medicaid, CHIP Enrollment, Survey Says
Kaiser Health News January 18, 2012 Half the states last year made it easier for children and their parents to enroll in Medicaid by streamlining enrollment and using technology advances to verify citizenship requirements, according to a report released Wednesday. Read the Full Story
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States Streamline Medicaid Using U.S. Funds to Cut Costs
Bloomberg Businessweek January 18, 2012 A stipulation in the 2010 health- care law that bans U.S. states from dropping Medicaid patients has forced them to be more efficient in managing the program, according to a report published today. While Medicaid, the joint U.S.-State health plan for low income people, is among the biggest expenses for…
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State Steps Up Health Care Coverage for Kids
Montgomery Advertiser January 18, 2012 Alabama’s successful efforts to increase the number of children with health care coverage has made it a standout in the region, according to a national study released Wednesday. Read the Full Article