Medpage Today A Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decision allowing pharmacists to administer routine vaccinations to children during the COVID-19 pandemic is drawing mixed reviews from healthcare organizations. … Tricia Brooks, MBA, research professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families in Washington, D.C., agreed with the AAP and AAFP. “This rule […]
Modern Healthcare By: Rachel Cohrs If President Donald Trump’s plan to extend additional unemployment benefits further squeezes state budgets already ravaged by COVID-19, states could look to Medicaid as a way to cut costs. … If states have to come up with the funds somehow and don’t get additional assistance from Congress, the unemployment program […]
American Medical Association An estimated 230,000 state residents—about 40% of those now uninsured in Missouri—will become eligible for Medicaid when enrollment begins next year. Missouri had an uninsured rate of 9.4% in 2018, which tied it with Utah for the 17th-highest rate in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. … Medicaid rolls are […]
New York Times By: Reed Abelson The nation’s leading health insurers are experiencing an embarrassment of profits. Some of the largest companies, including Anthem, Humana and UnitedHealth Group, are reporting second-quarter earnings that are double what they were a year ago. And while insurance profits are capped under the Affordable Care Act, with the requirement […]
Politico By: Rachel Roubein Missouri voters on Tuesday approved Medicaid expansion to many of the state’s poorest adults, making their conservative state the second to join the Obamacare program through the ballot during the pandemic.The Missouri ballot measure expands Medicaid to about 230,000 low-income residents at a time when the state’s safety net health care […]
Health Affairs By: Doug Strane The COVID-19 pandemic has constrained the economy in ways that would have been difficult to imagine only a few months ago. After years of economic expansion, unemployment reached 11.1 percent in June… Together these programs already insure nearly 40 percent of all children, and they will require both short-term buttressing […]
