… that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us. People can expect to have great health care . . . much less expensive and much better.” If he had the barest knowledge of what the law did, he would have known his …
Category: Arkansas
75,000 Arkansans’ Medicaid to expire next week, DHS says
… terminated earlier but wasn’t because of problems with the new system, Webb said. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 942,076 people, including 438,513 children, were enrolled in Arkansas’ Medicaid program as of Nov. 30.
Sen. Cotton: Never Going to Please All 3 Million Arkansans
… by Obamacare. No doubt some have been helped but many more hurt. We can continue to help those people who need health insurance support without all of the pain and suffering.” President Donald Trump carried Arkansas with 61 percent of the vote, …
State reports 19 deaths from flu, surge in cases
The Arkansas Health Department said Friday that the flu virus is now considered “widespread” in the state, with this week’s sharpest increases in Northwest Arkansas and in Craighead County. Department spokesman Meg Mirivel said 19 people have died from the illness in Arkansas since Oct. 2. Of those, 16 were 65 or older.
Flu deaths up from last year
(KAIT) – The Arkansas Department of Health said they’ve already had flu-related deaths this flu season. Meg Mirival with the ADH told Region 8 News, at least 19 people have died this flu season in Arkansas. That is already more than last year, where …
Dental benefits manager selected
… the companies indicates the payments are expected to total about $300 million over two years. Dentists and other oral health care providers would be reimbursed for services by the companies instead of the Medicaid program, as they are now. Adults …
Judge blocks changes in plaintiffs’ Medicaid
… determines what level of service they need, saying the new method has deprived them of critical care and put their health at risk. The lawsuit asks the judge to strike down the changes and go back to the system the agency had used previously. …
Dermatologist Explains Tanning Risks As Bill Advances
A bill that would keep Arkansans under the age of 18 from tanning has now reached the Arkansas house floor for voting. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, skin cancer is the most common form of cancer and dermatologists are seeing an increase right here in the River Valley.
State director to run N.M. insurance hub
The director of the agency responsible for Arkansas’ health insurance exchanges will become director of the exchanges in New Mexico on March 1, New Mexico’s exchange board announced Friday. After submitting her resignation to the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace board of directors last week, Cheryl Smith Gardner told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette she had accepted a job in New Mexico, but didn’t provide further details.
Arkansas House OKs Tapping into Funds for Disabled Waitlist
… disabled. The House on Thursday voted 93-0 in favor of a measure to redirect the money from a health insurance program that ended in 2013 when Arkansas expanded Medicaid. The money would provide home- and community-based services to …
Lawyers in cigarette lawsuit seek up to $30M in compensation
… the lawyers want a portion of the settlement to go to the two lead plaintiffs in the suit, as well as to Arkansas health agencies and anti-tobacco activists. The lawyers will take up the question of their payment amount at a hearing scheduled for …
Taxes, ‘pot’ on agenda when legislators clock in
… services and other programs; and will consider whether to reauthorize the use of federal and state funds to provide health insurance for more than 300,000 low-income Arkansans. Legislators also will decide whether college faculty and staff members, …
Manatt on Medicaid: Monthly Expansion Recap – January 2017
The Arkansas Health Reform Legislative Task Force met for the last time to approve its final report , which includes findings and recommendations on health coverage in Arkansas, including the finding that continuing Medicaid expansion would save the State $637 million from 2017 to 2021. The report also estimates that changes already underway, including capping some mental health benefits and allowing managed care organizations to manage dental benefits, will yield an additional $963 million in savings over the next five years.
Arkansas governor touts tax cut plan as delay floated
… year after facing heavy resistance from a handful of GOP opponents who called the expanded coverage an embrace of the health care overhaul they want repealed. Hutchinson said he’s asked the Trump administration to give Arkansas and other states more …
Louisiana on high alert after recent outbreaks of mumps
The Louisiana Department of Health is on high alert after recent outbreaks of mumps in other parts of the country. There haven’t been any cases in Louisiana yet, but state health officials are still very concerned about mumps outbreaks in neighboring states.
Mumps hitting state’s Marshallese hard
The breadth of the outbreak of mumps in Northwest Arkansas appears to be linked in part to that area’s community of Marshall Islanders, the director of the state Department of Health said Monday. Meanwhile, the region’s high rate of unvaccinated schoolchildren compared with the rest of the state doesn’t appear to be a factor in the unusual size of the outbreak, said Nate Smith, director of the state Department of Health.