Missouri lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to renew a series of key taxes that fund the state’s Medicaid program, ending a months-long dispute with a group of hard-right lawmakers who sought to block the renewal. The legislation, called the Federal Reimbursement Allowance or FRA, would keep the state’s Medicaid program running to provide health […]
Georgia dropped more than 300,000 children from the Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids health insurance program, with one of the worst child disenrollment rates in the nation, according to a new study from Georgetown University. The study authors fear the majority of them are now uninsured and might decide they cannot afford health care as […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The first serious effort by Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature to expand Medicaid was in danger of collapsing Thursday. Senate leaders continued to insist on a work requirement for new enrollees, and House leaders said voters should decide whether to extend coverage to more low-income people who can’t afford private insurance. Republican Lt. […]
Pandemic-ravaged hospitals that serve poor and low-income New Yorkers will get $3.2 billion in aid under the recently approved state budget for 2025, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s estimates. Much of the taxpayer-supported funding is part of the $37 billion Medicaid spending plan included in the $237 billion overall state budget deal struck this month […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by leaders in the Republican-led Mississippi Legislature could struggle for bipartisan support because it includes a work requirement that is unlikely to receive federal approval, the state House Democratic leader said Tuesday. Approving the plan could create false hope among people who want Medicaid coverage but […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Top Mississippi lawmakers started negotiating Tuesday on what could become a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of people in one of the poorest states in the U.S. But even with Republicans controlling both the state House and Senate, it’s far from clear that they will reach […]
The owners of a Central Florida medical transportation company are facing allegations that they fraudulently billed the Medicaid program for more than $275,000. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS According to court records filed in Seminole County, an investigation by the State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit identified 50-year-old Debora Behnke and 37-year-old Suman […]
Apr. 14—TRAVERSE CITY — A local man says he still has questions about a probate court case in which an attorney sought to sell his family’s home to settle an $11,416.98 Medicaid debt. “For three years I’ve had questions and I still do,” Thomas Stowe said. Thomas and his brother, Robert Stowe, appeared for a […]
Apr. 3—TRIAD — State officials report that more than 400,000 North Carolinians have signed up for Medicaid health insurance coverage since the expansion of the program four months ago, including nearly 38,000 in the three-county region around High Point. The governor’s office and N.C. Department of Health and Human Services updated the enrollment figures this […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A proposal to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands of residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S. is still alive in the Mississippi Legislature . But Senate Republicans changed the plan Wednesday so it would cover far fewer people and bring less federal money to the state. Mississippi’s […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A proposal to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands of residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S. is still alive in the Mississippi Legislature . But Senate Republicans changed the plan Wednesday so it would cover far fewer people and bring less federal money to the state. Mississippi’s […]
Mar. 27—More than 124,000 people enrolled in Ohio Medicaid were simultaneously enrolled in Medicaid programs in other states for at least three months at a time from 2019 through 2022, Ohio Auditor of State Keith Faber says. Over the four-year period examined, Ohio paid managed care organizations more than $1 billion to provide services to […]