Category: Medicaid

Local woman asks Republicans to keep ACA

The Affordable Care Act [ACA] has helped to standardize health insurance plans for all Americans. All plans provide 10 essential health benefits such as preventative care services, prescription drug coverage, capped out-of-pocket expenses, no lifetime limits and coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions.

Study: GOP Medicaid plan could save more than $100 billion

Transforming Medicaid into a block grant or per capita cap program could save the federal government more than $100 billion over five years, a new study found. The research from the healthcare firm Avalere Health was released as the GOP-controlled Congress eyes overhauling Medicaid as part of a replacement to Obamacare.

Indiana seeks to continue Medicaid expansion program

Gov. Eric Holcomb has requested the renewal of a federal waiver that allows Indiana’s Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0 to serve hundreds of thousands of low-income Hoosiers. The request begins an eight-month process with the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that is expected to go smoothly under President Donald Trump’s administration.

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 …

Obamacare sign-ups decline in face of Trump repeal threat

Facing higher premiums, less choice and a last-minute advertising pullback, fewer people signed up for coverage this year through HealthCare.gov, according to data from a preliminary government report Friday. About 9.2 million people signed up through HealthCare.gov, the insurance marketplace serving most states, said the Health and Human Services department.

DHH and Dr. Gee Need To Do Their Job

… why Louisiana’s budget is such a mess? A big reason is the amount of money taxpayers are spending on Medicaid. Health care is important, but so are the other goods and services we pay for and expect to receive from government. Medicaid is the …

Medicaid block – bigger threat to US healthcare than ACA repeal

As the new administration and congress begin their work, much of the healthcare world is focused on the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act . But while the ACA proposals are critically important as they may immediately imperil the health insurance of over 18 million Americans, there is a potentially greater threat to the health and wellbeing of over 80 million of Americans.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Expands its Medicaid Offerings to 24 Additional Wisconsin Counties

With the expansion, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin will offer coverage options within the vast majority of counties in the state. )–Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin announced today that it has received approval from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to expanded its Medicaid service offerings for BadgerCare Plus and Medicaid Supplemental Security Income to 24 additional counties in the state.

Millions expected to lose health insurance with repeal

More than 20 million people are expected to lose their health insurance coverage within a year following President Donald Trump’s executive order to repeal the Affordable Care Act Jan. 20. According to a report conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , the uninsured rate had fallen to the lowest level on record since the ACA was passed in 2010. In addition, millions of Americans with employer, Medicaid, Medicare or individual market coverage benefited from the protections of the act.

Record 3.6M New Yorkers sign up for Obamacare

A record 3.6 million New Yorkers used the state’s Obamacare exchange to obtain health coverage for 2017, a 28% increase from a year ago, state health officials announced Wednesday. Nearly 50,000 people signed up in the final two days before the Jan. 31 deadline, officials added.

KanCare reform measures grab the attention of House, Senate committees

House Minority Leader Jim Ward, D-Wichita, testifies as a proponent to bringing the inspector general out of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the agency overseeing KanCare, and into the attorney generals office during a hearing with the House Health and Human Services Committee Tuesday afternoon. State Medicaid director Mike Randol testifies during Tuesday afternoon’s House Health and Human Services Committee as they discussed bringing the inspector general out of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the agency overseeing KanCare, and into the attorney generals office.

Tuesday is last day to sign up for Obamacare

This year, many enrollees have added questions as the Trump administration and legislators in Washington dismantle the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare, which established the marketplace and created penalties for people who forgo health insurance. Yes. “Though consumers may have concerns about the future of the Affordable Care Act, as of now, nothing has changed about the fourth enrollment period - not plans, not prices, and not dates,” according to Enroll America, which seeks to get the uninsured signed up for coverage.

Obamacare enrollment deadline Tuesday

… boost in enrollment this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports. In mid-December, enrollment in health exchange plans was up 3 percent from the same time period the previous year. U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, proposed a …

Guess Who Can’t Wait for Trumpcare?

… hasn’t been a particularly popular law since its passage in March 2010. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll, which has been conducted on a near-monthly basis since Obamacare’s passage, just a handful of months have …

Story from NorthCountryNow.com

Proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, have Canton-Potsdam Hospital and Community Health Center of the North Country officials concerned that cuts could have a negative effect on local healthcare. In the November general election, the Republicans won majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate, plus the presidency.

Obamacare Repeal Could Threaten Provisions That Help Older Adults

Republican lawmakers meeting in Philadelphia this week say they want their replacement of Obamacare to be done by spring. There is no consensus on a plan yet, but several Republicans in Congress have already circulated proposals that could reduce or eliminate features of the federal health law that have benefited older Americans.

Nonpartisan Report Offers Menu of Options to Policymakers for…

In an ambitious new report , the National Academy of Social Insurance provides detailed, evidence-based analyses on a range of policy options for modernizing the nation’s social insurance system. The Report to the New Leadership and the American People on Social Insurance and Inequality takes stock of policy challenges facing the social insurance infrastructure, then discusses potential new directions that policymakers might take to strengthen the programs.