A federal appeals court panel on Friday unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling striking down work rules for Medicaid recipients in Arkansas, casting more doubt over broader Trump administration efforts to require poor people to work, volunteer or train for a job as a condition of getting government health coverage. A three-judge panel of the… Read More »
Dive Brief: L.A. Care, the biggest public Medicaid managed care plan in the country, won an appellate court victory late last week against hospital operator Dignity Health regarding reimbursement for out-of-network patients. The legal dispute centered around L.A. Care patients being admitted through the emergency room at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles, which… Read More »
Sam Aptekar Phuoc Le By PHUOC LE, MD and SAM APTEKAR A friend of mine told me the other day, “We’ve seen our insured patient population go from 15% to 70% in the few years since Obamacare.” As a primary care physician in the Midwest, he’s worked for years in an inner-city clinic that serves… Read More »
House Democrats are preparing to reshape and reframe Obamacare’s optional Medicaid expansion to force holdout red-state governments to go along with it, using either the carrot or the stick. A senior Democratic aide described the planned strategy as a “two-pronged approach of increased legislative incentives to adopt the expansion and increased public pressure on states… Read More »
The Trump administration has approved plans in Maine and Michigan that would require certain Medicaid enrollees work as a condition of staying enrolled in the program. “Christmas came early for these Governors & we are proud to support local innovation all across this great country!” tweeted Seema Verma, the administrator at the Centers for Medicare… Read More »