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One State Sees Major Drop in Uninsured
/0 Comments/in Affordable Care Act /by NASNH AdministratorAre Affordable Care Act reforms putting a dent in the number of uninsured Americans? They certainly are in Minnesota. According to a study by the University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center, the number of uninsured residents in the state fell more than 40 percent in the six months after September 30, 2013. […]
States Using Reform Law to Experiment
/0 Comments/in Affordable Care Act, Medicaid /by NASNH AdministratorA number of states are taking advantage of flexibility written into the Affordable Care Act to experiment with different ways to purchase, deliver, and pay for health care. Vermont, for example, is considering a single-payer program in which all state residents would enroll in a state-run health insurance program. Maryland and Massachusetts are setting health […]
Waiting in Medicaid Limbo
/0 Comments/in Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, private safety-net hospitals /by NASNH AdministratorMore than 1.7 million people who have applied for Medicaid are still waiting for a decision on their eligibility. And some have been waiting for as long as eight months. More than half of those still waiting are in California while some live in states that have not expanded their Medicaid programs. The delays have […]
Members of Congress Urge Delay in Medicare DSH Cuts
/0 Comments/in Affordable Care Act, Medicare disproportionate share, Medicare DSH, private safety-net hospitals /by NASNH AdministratorFifty-eight members of the House of Representatives have written to House leadership asking them to delay the continued implementation of Affordable Care Act-mandated Medicare disproportionate share (Medicare DSH) cuts. The letter, to House Speaker John Boehner and minority leader Nancy Pelosi, notes that …hospitals that qualify for Medicare DSH are, by definition, the very providers […]
CMS to Examine How States Set Medicaid Managed Care Rates
/0 Comments/in Medicaid, private safety-net hospitals /by NASNH AdministratorThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is launching an initiative to explore how states set the rates they pay managed care organizations to serve Medicaid patients. The initiative consists of two parts: first, CMS is examining the adequacy of the process states employ to set their rates – a process that affects the […]