• The authors hope that the full year's worth of data will help inform debates in the 19 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. (eurekalert.org)
  • The findings of this study provide a solid step for closing the gap, showing that the Medicaid expansion opportunity offered by the Affordable Care Act, which allows participating states to improve healthcare access for disadvantaged populations, results in better cancer outcomes and mitigation of racial disparities in cancer survival," commented Julie Gralow, MD, chief medical officer and executive vice-president of ASCO. (medscape.com)
  • The investigators noted that Medicaid coverage was a key component in access to care through the Affordable Care Act. (medscape.com)
  • Authors find that whether unemployment compensation is included in determining eligibility for Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace subsidies affects workers living in states that expanded Medicaid differently than those living in states that do not. (rwjf.org)
  • Expanded Medicaid is an initiative under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and provides Medicaid benefits to any person over 18 and under 16 if their income is at or below 133% of the federal poverty level, plus 5% of the federal poverty level for the classified family size. (keloland.com)
  • Because the state did not expand Medicaid, which was part of the Affordable Care Act, billions of federal dollars that are meant to support the state's health systems are going unused. (ajc.com)
  • I've been reasonably outspoken over the two-years-and-change since the Supreme Court made the Medicaid expansion feature of the Affordable Care Act optional that acceptance of the provision by individual Republican governors and state legislative leaders would not be inevitable. (washingtonmonthly.com)
  • The expansion of Medicaid shows significant improvements in various health outcomes consistent with the original goals of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, according to the first peer-reviewed comprehensive analysis. (medindia.net)
  • sweeping "Build Back Better" agenda - would subsidize insurance purchased through the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, for impoverished Tennesseans who don't qualify for TennCare, the state's Medicaid program. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • Medicaid expansion, made possible under the Affordable Care Act in 2014, allowed states to grow their Medicaid programs to cover millions of low-income residents who were not previously eligible and unlikely to have insurance. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • But in states that have not chosen to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, hospitals continued to experience the same or even higher demand for care from people without insurance. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Republicans have said they don't support the Affordable Care Act, but prefer that low-income Mainers have "some skin in the game," rather than getting free coverage through Medicaid. (pressherald.com)
  • The Affordable Care Act assumed that anyone below 110 percent of the poverty level would be covered by expanded Medicaid programs in their states. (pressherald.com)
  • The fight over expansion is expected to play into this year's legislative and gubernatorial campaigns, as it has in the 21 other states that have not expanded Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act. (pressherald.com)
  • A new study finds that fewer patients with end-stage kidney disease died within a year of starting dialysis in states that expanded Medicaid coverage in the wake of the Affordable Care Act. (brown.edu)
  • PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] - In the first three years of Medicaid expansion due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the number of patients with end-stage kidney disease who died within a year of starting dialysis decreased in states that expanded Medicaid compared to non-expansion states, new research found. (brown.edu)
  • The Affordable Care Act was originally projected to substantially increase the number of people who have health insurance - in large part by expanding Medicaid - which was intended to improve hospitals' financial health by reducing the amount of care they provide to uninsured patients, many of whom pay little or nothing for their care. (heartland.org)
  • Expanding Medicaid is an option available to states since 2014 through the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, yet Wyoming and 11 other states have refused to take up the federal government's offer. (yahoo.com)
  • The vast majority of people that got insurance under President Obama's Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, got it through Medicaid. (politifact.com)
  • The vast majority of people that got insurance under President Obama's Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, got it through Medicaid," Paul said Jan. 15, 2017, on CNN's State of the Union . (politifact.com)
  • More people became eligible for health insurance through Medicaid after passage of the Affordable Care Act. (politifact.com)
  • Before the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, the government health insurance for the poor and disabled, was reserved mainly for pregnant women, poor children, low-income seniors and people with disabilities. (wypr.org)
  • Expanding Medicaid coverage to people up to 133 percent of the poverty line was mandated under the Affordable Care Act (more commonly known as "Obamacare"), but the Supreme Court ruled last year that the provision is optional. (mackinac.org)
  • The debate over the coverage gap in the United States is particularly stark in the 14 states - including North Carolina - that didn't expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act . (nbcnews.com)
  • The House bill would allow the state to pursue a plan to expand the federal-state health insurance program to Wyoming adults whose income is at or below 138% of the federal poverty level - offering coverage for those who don't qualify for Medicaid and don't qualify for premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. (kotatv.com)
  • By expanding Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, 32 states have extended Medicaid cessation coverage to about 2.3 million adult smokers who were not previously eligible for Medicaid. (cdc.gov)
  • As of July 1, 2016, 32 states (including the District of Columbia) have expanded Medicaid eligibility through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA),* ,† which has increased access to health care services, including cessation treatments ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • One of the primary provisions of the Affordable Care Act gave states the option to expand their Medicaid eligibility to include individuals below 138 percent of the federal poverty level ($20,120 per year for one person or $41,400 for a family of four in 2022). (okpolicy.org)
  • In the context of American public healthcare policy, the Medicaid coverage gap refers to uninsured people who do not qualify for marketplace assistance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and reside in states that have not adopted Medicaid expansion under the ACA. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Medicaid coverage gap includes nonelderly people with incomes that are below the federal poverty line (FPL), making them ineligible for subsidized marketplace insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but have incomes higher than their state's limit for Medicaid eligibility as their state has not adopted Medicaid expansion as prescribed by the ACA. (wikipedia.org)
  • We examined data from 2010 to 2016 and 2014 to 2016 to compare infant mortality rates in states and Washington, DC, that accepted the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion (Medicaid expansion states) and states that did not (non-Medicaid expansion states), stratifying data by race/ethnicity. (medscape.com)
  • Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has the potential to improve reproductive health by allowing low- income women access to healthcare before and early in pregnancy . (bvsalud.org)
  • By Aug. 1, the governor is expected to apply to CMS for a waiver from Medicaid's rules - challenging the administration's policy against linking Medicaid coverage to a work requirement. (scienceblogs.com)
  • ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Despite predictions that expanding Medicaid would crowd doctor's offices with new patients, and crowd out patients with other kinds of insurance, a new University of Michigan study finds no evidence of that effect. (eurekalert.org)
  • The Salt Lake Tribune Gov. Gary Herbert addresses the media as he releases his detailed Healthy Utah plan, which is an alternative way to expanding health care coverage for the poor without technically expanding Medicaid. (sltrib.com)
  • Utah lawmakers dealt a setback to the governor's Healthy Utah alternative to expanding Medicaid Thursday. (sltrib.com)
  • Second, many of these consequences from expanding Medicaid are not seen or measurable until some time after the implementation. (johnlocke.org)
  • While there is an acknowledgment that many individuals in our state struggle to afford and access healthcare, expanding Medicaid is not the best path. (johnlocke.org)
  • Many say the program is costing more than expanding Medicaid would and hurting those most in need. (ajc.com)
  • Atlanta City Councilmember Liliana Bakhtiari and Georgia State Senator Nan Orrock spoke at the rally, pushing for the health needs of the community, while also condemning the acts of Wellstar and state officials for not expanding Medicaid. (ajc.com)
  • Governor Snyder came to Southwest Michigan this week to try and rally support for expanding Medicaid. (wmuk.org)
  • The findings have immediate relevance for the four states that are now considering expanding Medicaid, the 16 others that have not done so, and those that are evaluating whether to continue offering their recently expanded program. (sciencedaily.com)
  • But many lawmakers are rightfully skeptical about expanding Medicaid and anxious about expansion costs, which are rising faster than expected in states that have expanded the program. (heartland.org)
  • Expanding Medicaid increases demand for health care services, and therefore affects the allocation of those services," Blase wrote. (heartland.org)
  • Expanding Medicaid only makes sense if things are different," said Scherz. (heartland.org)
  • Expanding Medicaid eligibility to cover more low income North Carolinians could lead to 37,000 new jobs in the state. (wunc.org)
  • As the Virginia Organizing/Families USA report explains, expanding Medicaid changes the rules in favor of the state. (augustafreepress.com)
  • Expanding Medicaid helped people's pocketbooks as well. (cbpp.org)
  • That's consistent with other research showing that because expanding Medicaid shrinks the ranks of the uninsured, it has reduced hospitals' uncompensated care burden. (cbpp.org)
  • On Election Day, Utah residents will be going to the polls to vote on whether the state will join 33 others and Washington, D.C., in expanding Medicaid coverage to a lot more low-income adults. (wypr.org)
  • Utah has come close to expanding Medicaid in the past. (wypr.org)
  • The Fairness Project and Utah Decides , a state-level group campaigning in favor of expansions, argue that expanding Medicaid has economic benefits as well as health benefits. (wypr.org)
  • Expanding Medicaid requires more than just saying yes to the federal government's offer. (carolinajournal.com)
  • If we fail to do those things, I think expanding Medicaid is likely not a good decision," he said. (carolinajournal.com)
  • While the Michigan Legislature debates expanding Medicaid, a new study says that doing so may not significantly improve health outcomes. (mackinac.org)
  • This suggests that simply expanding Medicaid coverage does not mean health providers save money by making low-income citizens less likely to simply go to the emergency room. (mackinac.org)
  • Gov. Rick Snyder has proposed expanding Medicaid in Michigan which would add 470,000 people to the publicly funded program, his office estimates. (mackinac.org)
  • The total public and private cost of expanding Medicaid in the state will be more than $1 billion annually, according to the study. (freebeacon.com)
  • The report found that expanding Medicaid will increase the cost of health care on individual Wisconsinites with private insurance by roughly $177 per year and up to $700 for a family of four. (freebeacon.com)
  • Advocates argue that expanding Medicaid, or loosening enrollment rules, amid the outbreak would encourage the working poor to receive necessary care, help reimburse medical centers and alleviate medical debt that patients would accumulate. (nbcnews.com)
  • Health care advocates flocked to the Capitol on Thursday to urge the Senate Finance Committee to consider expanding Medicaid, restoring funding for family planning services and improving the state's health care delivery system. (texastribune.org)
  • Health care advocates flocked to the Capitol on Thursday to urge the Senate Finance Committee to consider the benefits of expanding Medicaid to impoverished adults, restoring funding for family planning services cut last session and encouraging a redesign of the state's health delivery system to help additional disabled and low-income Texans. (texastribune.org)
  • Our Medicaid system is far from perfect, but for people that don't have access to health care, it can be a life saver," said Kim Campbell, a Texan with multiple sclerosis, who testified in favor of lawmakers expanding Medicaid to cover impoverished adults. (texastribune.org)
  • Bee Moorhead, the executive director of Texas Impact, an interfaith group that commissioned a recent report on the benefits of expanding Medicaid, said taxpayers deserve to have money they paid returned to their communities through the Medicaid expansion. (texastribune.org)
  • Our study provides evidence that expanding Medicaid has positive effects on women 's use of healthcare . (bvsalud.org)
  • That's despite the requirement - written into the fabric of Michigan's Medicaid expansion - that all enrollees get a primary care appointment within 90 days of getting coverage. (eurekalert.org)
  • Among them: placing enrollees in private insurance instead of traditional Medicaid, requiring some enrollees to pay modest premiums, conditioning enrollment for some on paying into a health savings account, encouraging unemployed or underemployed beneficiaries to pursue work opportunities and attempting to limit overuse of the emergency room. (politico.com)
  • The state's Medicaid expansion has substantially improved access to primary care and preventive services for enrollees. (michiganradio.org)
  • Use of primary care, mental health services and preventive care among Medicaid enrollees went up. (medindia.net)
  • Instead of joining TennCare under Medicaid expansion, enrollees will instead need to purchase a subsidized insurance plan through Healthcare.gov . (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • Blase also argues Medicaid affects health care utilization and health outcomes for people other than the targeted enrollees. (heartland.org)
  • 60% of current Medicaid enrollees in NC are people of color. (whro.org)
  • The Obama administration has been trying to convince states to throw more than a trillion additional taxpayer dollars at Medicaid by participating in the expansion, when the best-designed research available cannot find any evidence that it improves the physical health of enrollees. (mackinac.org)
  • Medicaid enrollees smoke cigarettes at a higher rate than do privately insured U.S. residents. (cdc.gov)
  • All 32 of these states covered some cessation treatments for all Medicaid expansion enrollees. (cdc.gov)
  • Nine states covered all nine cessation treatments considered in this study for all Medicaid expansion enrollees, and 19 states covered all seven FDA-approved cessation medications for all enrollees. (cdc.gov)
  • States that have expanded Medicaid can take further steps to help smokers quit by covering proven cessation treatments more fully, removing barriers to accessing covered treatments, making Medicaid enrollees and their health care providers aware of these treatments, and monitoring use of these treatments. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2015, 27.8% of adult Medicaid enrollees were current cigarette smokers, compared with 11.1% of adults with private health insurance, placing Medicaid enrollees at increased risk for smoking-related disease and death ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • To assess cessation coverage among Medicaid expansion enrollees, the American Lung Association collected data on coverage of, and barriers to accessing, evidence-based cessation treatments. (cdc.gov)
  • As of July 1, 2016, all 32 states that have expanded Medicaid eligibility under ACA covered some cessation treatments for all Medicaid expansion enrollees, with nine states covering all nine cessation treatments for all Medicaid expansion enrollees. (cdc.gov)
  • Providing barrier-free access to cessation treatments and promoting their use can increase use of these treatments and reduce smoking and smoking-related disease, death, and health care costs among Medicaid enrollees ( 4 , 6 - 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • 65years of age adult Medicaid enrollees. (cdc.gov)
  • Although insurance coverage doesn't automatically translate to services and resources to care for adults with multiple chronic conditions, it's worth noting that three of the states with above-average MCC prevalence estimates -- Alabama, Maine, and Mississippi -- haven't accepted the ACA's Medicaid expansion . (scienceblogs.com)
  • In these states, thousands of adults fall into the "coverage gap," with household incomes too high to qualify them for traditional Medicaid and too low to qualify for subsidized marketplace insurance. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Kentucky's new governor, Matt Bevin, has proposed dramatically altering the state's Medicaid program, by requiring low-income, non-disabled adults to pay premiums and work in order to qualify for coverage, and making vision and dental benefits contingent on health activities or volunteer work. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The state estimates that 10,000 to 12,000 adults could begin getting Medicaid subsidies to help pay for employer-based coverage under an existing state program within the next few months. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • As of May, 32 states and the District of Columbia had opted to expand Medicaid eligibility under the ACA to nonelderly adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty level. (medindia.net)
  • How Crucial is Medicaid for Adults Living With Down Syndrome? (medindia.net)
  • But because Tennessee leaders repeatedly rejected Medicaid expansion, TennCare has a significant coverage gap: It does not cover childless adults - no matter how poor they may be - unless they fall into some other eligible category. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • To my knowledge, this is the first study to find an association between Medicaid expansion under the ACAand lower death rates in adults," said Dr. Amal Trivedi, senior author and an associate professor at Brown's School of Public Health. (brown.edu)
  • In 2012, the Beaver State announced it would expand Medicaid under the new Obamacare rules to cover able-bodied adults with no children. (americansforprosperity.org)
  • Studies in this week's Hutchins Roundup find that the 2014 Medicaid expansion increased coverage and reduced out-of-pocket spending for near-poor, non-elderly adults, generous unemployment insurance prevents foreclosures and protects home values, and more. (brookings.edu)
  • Fredric Blavin at the Urban Institute and co-authors find that for near-poor, non-elderly adults, living in an expansion state was associated with a 4.5 percentage point reduction in the probability of being uninsured , a $344 decline in average total out-of-pocket spending, and a 4 percentage point reduction in the probability of spending more than 10 percent of income on health costs. (brookings.edu)
  • For example, childless adults who make more than the cutoff salary for a one-person family but not enough to afford private insurance would make up 77% of people newly eligible for Medicaid if North Carolina expands the program, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. (whro.org)
  • If enacted the final plan also would trigger Medicaid expansion coverage to hundreds of thousands of adults - a longstanding priority for Democrats led by Gov. Roy Cooper. (ap.org)
  • After opposition to the switch by both Democrats and Republicans, efforts to advance gambling were set aside, opening the door to offer Medicaid to the first of potentially 600,000 adults as soon as December. (ap.org)
  • It turns out, the impact of Obamacare on Medicaid is more complicated than simply more generous eligibility rules for adults. (politifact.com)
  • Poor adults in states that have expanded Medicaid as part of health reform have greater access to health care services and fewer problems paying their medical bills, and hospitals there are admitting fewer uninsured patients, two new studies published in Health Affairs show. (cbpp.org)
  • The first study , by Harvard University researchers, surveyed low-income non-elderly adults in Arkansas and Kentucky (which have expanded Medicaid) and Texas (which hasn't). (cbpp.org)
  • These findings are notable because the three states had similar coverage landscapes before the Medicaid expansion took effect in 2014, with roughly 40 percent of their poor non-elderly adults uninsured. (cbpp.org)
  • With the ACA came the requirement for states to expand access to Medicaid to childless adults whose incomes are less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level, which is $12,140 for individuals . (wypr.org)
  • AP) - The Wyoming House of Representatives passed a bill on a 32-28 vote Wednesday to expand Medicaid eligibility to low-income adults. (kotatv.com)
  • Expansion of Medicaid was a key aspect of the ACA when it was signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010, supporting the legislation's goal of ensuring universal health care in the U.S. by raising the income threshold for Medicaid eligibility to 138 percent of the FPL among nonelderly adults. (wikipedia.org)
  • The gap also includes childless adults who are ineligible for Medicaid regardless of income in these states (with the exception of Wisconsin, which permits Medicaid coverage via waiver). (wikipedia.org)
  • Moreover, some adults with incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level (FPL) in non-expansion states fall into the "coverage gap", where they do not qualify for Medicaid through an existing pathway and are not eligible for marketplace subsidies. (cdc.gov)
  • HIFA is an optional state Medicaid expansion targeted at adults and children with incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL). (cdc.gov)
  • The percentage of adults without a usual place of medical care was lower in states that expanded Medicaid compared with nonexpansion states. (cdc.gov)
  • Did the percentage of adults without a usual place of medical care or who had not seen or talked to a general doctor in the past 12 months vary by state Medicaid expansion status? (cdc.gov)
  • In 2014, the percentage of adults aged 18-64 who did not have a usual place of medical care was lower in states with Medicaid expansion (16.6%) than in nonexpansion states (18.2%) ( Figure 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In states without Medicaid expansion, nearly 35% of adults aged 18-64 did not see or talk to a general doctor in the past 12 months. (cdc.gov)
  • This historical analysis shows that in the years just prior to the Affordable Care Act's expansion of health insurance coverage, black and Hispanic working-age adults were far more likely than whites to be uninsured, to lack a usual care provider, and to go without needed care because of cost. (bvsalud.org)
  • With surveys pointing to a decline in uninsured rates among black and Hispanic adults in the past year, particularly in states extending Medicaid eli-gibility, the ACA's coverage expansions have the potential to reduce, though not eliminate, racial and ethnic disparities in access to care. (bvsalud.org)
  • One year after Medicaid expansion in Michigan, primary care appointment availability for new Medicaid patients increased, even though enrollment in the program almost doubled," says lead author Renuka Tipirneni, M.D., M.S., a clinical lecturer in the Division of General Medicine at the U-M Medical School. (eurekalert.org)
  • Because enrollment in Medicaid expansion vastly exceeded initial projections, the true cost may rise far higher. (johnlocke.org)
  • This is a projection of Medicaid enrollment and spending for 2015 that compares states that accepted the Obamacare Medicaid expansion with those that didn't. (motherjones.com)
  • As you can see, in states that accepted the expansion, enrollment is forecast to cover 18 percent more people compared to only 5.2 percent more in non-expansion states. (motherjones.com)
  • They zeroed in on the period from fall 2013, when enrollment began for expanded Medicaid in most states that opted to expand the program, to the end of June 2014. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In state-after-state where Medicaid expanded enrollment spending has far outpaced estimates. (americansforprosperity.org)
  • Health care analyst, John Holahan at the Urban Institute, a Washington-based academic center, noted that the Medicaid enrollment data is shaky. (politifact.com)
  • We also assessed Medicaid enrollment one month prior to pregnancy . (bvsalud.org)
  • Additionally, we assessed the impact of Medicaid expansion on prenatal care utilization via pre- pregnancy Medicaid enrollment using bivariate probit models. (bvsalud.org)
  • Pre- pregnancy Medicaid enrollment increased following Medicaid expansion (ß = 0.55, p prenatal care (ß = 0.14, p (bvsalud.org)
  • Using two years of post-ACA data we found that Medicaid expansion had significant positive associations with Medicaid enrollment prior to pregnancy , which subsequently increased receipt of timely and adequate prenatal care . (bvsalud.org)
  • Pence intends to build the expansion on top of an existing state program called the Healthy Indiana Plan, and his office took great pains to distance the effort from an embrace of the core provision of Obamacare. (politico.com)
  • The shift comes after the House pulled the Obamacare repeal and replacement bill, which would have phased out Medicaid expansion and cut federal funding to the states. (axios.com)
  • For people impacted by this law, the subsidized Obamacare coverage would appear largely similar to the low-cost insurance they could have received through Medicaid expansion. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • Most states seized the opportunity to expand Medicaid while a minority rejected expansion, citing cost concerns or political objections to Obamacare in general. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • Those wishing to expand Medicaid under Obamacare in Nebraska are working double time. (americansforprosperity.org)
  • In a recent National Review article , writer Chris Jacobs described the importance of health care in the election, asserting if Hillary Clinton captures the White House, "Obamacare is here to stay, and [Clinton] will likely push to expand Medicaid in the states that have rejected the program's massive expansion under Obamacare. (heartland.org)
  • About 2.2 million people, who earn too much for Medicaid and too little for Obamacare subsidies, fall in that coverage gap nationwide, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation . (yahoo.com)
  • Our focus is on his statement that the vast majority of the newly insured under Obamacare came through the Medicaid program. (politifact.com)
  • A couple of other factors make it difficult to say precisely why Medicaid grew under Obamacare. (politifact.com)
  • Cuccinelli claims that if Medicaid is expanded under Obamacare to provide care for an additional 420,000 Virginians, there will be "an explosion of un-policed fraud. (virginia-organizing.org)
  • Nearly half a million Virginians with no health insurance who are too poor even to purchase private insurance subsidized under Obamacare will be cared for under Medicaid expansion. (virginia-organizing.org)
  • Pence, like Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie before him, announced a major push Thursday to expand Medicaid under the health care law and follow 26 states that have extended coverage to a larger share of their low-income residents. (politico.com)
  • Yet the Obama administration labeled his move a "Medicaid coverage expansion. (politico.com)
  • People who have lost jobs due to COVID-19 and live in states that haven't expanded Medicaid are at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing affordable health insurance coverage. (rwjf.org)
  • Amendment D will amend the South Dakota Constitution to expand Medicaid eligibility to help provide medical coverage for low-income people in designated categories. (keloland.com)
  • Medicaid expansion will be a crucial opportunity for farmers and ranchers across South Dakota to accept affordable healthcare coverage for the first time," Doug Sombke, President of South Dakota Farmers Union, said in a news release. (keloland.com)
  • But Louisiana's Medicaid expansion has revealed another waste of taxpayer funds, both in the Pelican State and nationwide: the money spent providing coverage to people who already had health insurance. (johnlocke.org)
  • Via a public-records request, the Pelican Institute obtained data demonstrating that thousands of Louisiana residents dropped their private coverage to enroll in Medicaid under the expansion. (johnlocke.org)
  • A spreadsheet compiled by the Louisiana Department of Health put the count between 3,000 and 5,000 people a month, and that doesn't count those who enrolled in Medicaid first, then dropped private coverage. (johnlocke.org)
  • That masses of Louisiana residents canceled their private coverage to enroll in "free" Medicaid should surprise no one. (johnlocke.org)
  • Federal budget analysts have yet to quantify the effect of crowd-out on Medicaid expansion-but they should, because estimates suggest that Washington is spending billions annually funding Medicaid for people with prior health coverage. (johnlocke.org)
  • Montana officials recently released a study boasting of 8,700 workers who would have employer-sponsored coverage but for Medicaid expansion, claiming that expansion provided "cost savings to businesses" of up to $114 million. (johnlocke.org)
  • Another 38,000 people would receive coverage through the state's Medicaid managed care program starting July 1 or as soon as possible after that. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • If federal officials do not approve a waiver, then the temporary program that uses Medicaid dollars to subsidize employer-based coverage would end on June 30, 2015. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • They found expansion of Medicaid under the ACA was linked to increases in health coverage, use of health services and quality of care. (medindia.net)
  • Medicaid is the nation's largest source of health coverage. (medindia.net)
  • Researchers found Medicaid expansion was related to increased insurance coverage among all potentially eligible individuals, regardless of race, age, marital status or income. (medindia.net)
  • The Michigan Senate could vote this week on a proposal to expand Medicaid coverage in the state. (wmuk.org)
  • Democrats, who have made Medicaid expansion a policy priority, have emphasized the human impact of not extending coverage to more poor Mainers. (pressherald.com)
  • Prior research on the effects of Medicaid expansion have generally found that expansion is associated with substantial gains in coverage, access to care, use of preventive health services and in some studies, better self-rated health. (brown.edu)
  • Medicaid expansion reduced the rate of end-stage renal disease patients without insurance by 4.2 percentage points, primarily through Medicaid coverage. (brown.edu)
  • One option proposed by Scherz is to provide each Medicaid recipient with a direct primary care doctor alongside existing Medicaid coverage. (heartland.org)
  • On Wednesday, Republicans who long opposed the measure and Democrats who long supported it in the Wyoming House joined together to pass Medicaid expansion , potentially signaling the beginning of a change nationwide that could bring health care to those within the coverage gap. (yahoo.com)
  • In Wyoming, Medicaid expansion combined with the boost from the American Rescue Plan means $120 million over the next two years and, according to the state's own estimate, it would provide more than 24,000 people health care coverage. (yahoo.com)
  • More than 200,000 people in North Carolina are uninsured but ineligible for Medicaid coverage. (whro.org)
  • Through an expansion of Medicaid, Virginia could provide health coverage to residents with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, which is $27,310 for a family of three in 2014. (augustafreepress.com)
  • By agreeing to Medicaid expansion, Virginia could see as many as 360,000 residents gain health coverage, with the federal government paying all costs of that expansion through 2016. (augustafreepress.com)
  • That would have altered the landmark Medicaid expansion law Cooper signed in March, which only said enactment of the budget was needed to implement the coverage. (ap.org)
  • The majority of the national coverage gains are Medicaid, but not the vast majority," Sommers told us. (politifact.com)
  • Texas' uninsured rate dropped as well (from 38 percent to 27 percent), reflecting the availability of subsidized marketplace coverage and other factors, but its coverage gains were much more limited due to the state's failure to expand Medicaid. (cbpp.org)
  • Other government and private surveys have also found much bigger coverage gains in expansion states. (cbpp.org)
  • Kasich, a second-term Republican who sought the GOP's presidential nomination in 2016, told CNN's Jim Sciutto on "State of the Union" that he wants Republicans to continue coverage for Americans insured by President Barack Obama's health care law -- and to be sure not to repeal the Medicaid expansion without an alternative. (wkbw.com)
  • Mean values and absolute changes in clinical outcomes and health outcomes with Medicaid coverage. (mackinac.org)
  • We found no significant effect of Medicaid coverage on the prevalence or diagnosis of hypertension or high cholesterol levels or on the use of medication for these conditions," the study said. (mackinac.org)
  • Medicaid coverage significantly increased the probability of a diagnosis of diabetes and the use of diabetes medication, but we observed no significant effect on average glycated hemoglobin levels or on the percentage of participants with levels of 6.5 percent or higher. (mackinac.org)
  • The group found a few positive effects from Medicaid coverage, like lower stress levels and lower rates of depression. (mackinac.org)
  • Rep. Hooker said he would rather the state look at other ways to deal with health coverage as well as change the system for those already on Medicaid, like requiring a small co-pay. (mackinac.org)
  • There's a proven cost to families who have private insurance coverage with health care costs increasing more in states that expanded Medicaid. (freebeacon.com)
  • The authors of the report emphasize that Wisconsin has no health insurance coverage gap and those moving to Medicaid already have access to subsidized health insurance. (freebeacon.com)
  • As the Trump administration discusses opening the Affordable Care Act's health insurance registration window, a number of states have begun to explore options to address private health insurance and Medicaid programs, which provide coverage to low-income Americans. (nbcnews.com)
  • The decision to forgo an increase in state Medicaid programs, an ideological resistance borne of fiscal conservatism in Republican-controlled state legislatures, has left nearly 5 million people across the country without access to health care coverage and meant states turned down billions of federal dollars that would have come with the expansion. (nbcnews.com)
  • In North Carolina, expansion would have allowed the state to provide coverage to more than 194,000 members of the working poor who earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid but too little to purchase their own insurance plans. (nbcnews.com)
  • You're going to create a new class of uninsured people at higher income levels," said Sen. Bob Deuell , R-Greenville, adding that employers will choose to drop employee health coverage if the state expands Medicaid, causing the pool of private insurance to shrink and premiums to rise. (texastribune.org)
  • States that expand Medicaid eligibility are able to extend coverage to large numbers of adult smokers who are not eligible for traditional Medicaid cessation coverage, thereby substantially increasing the potential impact of Medicaid cessation coverage. (cdc.gov)
  • this coverage has the potential to reduce Medicaid costs ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • CDC used data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicaid Budget and Expenditure System (MBES) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to estimate the number of adult smokers enrolled in Medicaid expansion coverage. (cdc.gov)
  • A Healthy People 2020 objective (TU-8) calls for all state Medicaid programs to adopt comprehensive coverage of smoking cessation treatments. (cdc.gov)
  • A previous study reported on state Medicaid coverage of cessation treatments during 2014-2015 in the population traditionally eligible for Medicaid coverage ( 9 ), but cessation coverage has not been reported among the population newly eligible for Medicaid expansion coverage in the 32 states (including the District of Columbia) that expanded Medicaid eligibility through ACA as of July 1, 2016. (cdc.gov)
  • Until 2020, Oklahoma's Governor and Legislature opted not to expand Medicaid, a decision that left billions in federal funding on the table, and more than 100,000 Oklahomans in a ' coverage crater ' (too low-income to qualify for subsidies on the health insurance marketplace, too wealthy or not a member of a population group that is eligible to qualify for traditional Medicaid). (okpolicy.org)
  • As of March 2023[update], an estimated 1.9 million Americans in 10 states are within the Medicaid coverage gap according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The decision not to implement Medicaid expansion in some states after the ACA took effect in 2014 led to a "gap" in coverage for residents of those states with incomes too low for subsidized insurance in the ACA's newly established health insurance marketplaces and incomes too high to qualify for the non-expanded Medicaid in their states. (wikipedia.org)
  • Governors in several Republican-leaning states announced that they would not expand Medicaid in response, leading to a gap in insurance coverage. (wikipedia.org)
  • Out of the cohort, 97 percent live in the Southern United States where most of the non-expansion states are located, with Texas, Florida, and Georgia accounting for nearly three-quarters of the Medicaid coverage gap. (wikipedia.org)
  • Title : Medicaid Expansion Produces Long-Term Impact on Insurance Coverage Rates in Community Health Centers Personal Author(s) : Huguet, Nathalie;Hoopes, Megan J.;Angier, Heather;Marino, Miguel;Holderness, Heather;DeVoe, Jennifer E. (cdc.gov)
  • People With HIV in Non-Medicaid Expansion States: Who Could Gain Coverage Eligibility Through Build Back Better or Future Expansion? (cdc.gov)
  • People with HIV living in the 12 states that have not adopted the Medicaid expansion face limited access to health coverage. (cdc.gov)
  • The federal government will pay the full cost of expansion through 2016 and gradually require states to pay up to 10 percent in subsequent years. (politico.com)
  • As state legislative sessions get underway and governors in states like Alabama , Louisiana , South Dakota , and Wyoming prepare to push for Medicaid expansion in 2016, this latest research underscores why expansion is the right choice. (cbpp.org)
  • The costs of expansion were paid for in full (100 percent) by the federal government through 2016, before dropping down and freezing at 90 percent in 2020, well above the typical federal match rate . (okpolicy.org)
  • Mean infant mortality rate in non-Medicaid expansion states rose (6.4 to 6.5) from 2014 to 2016 but declined in Medicaid expansion states (5.9 to 5.6). (medscape.com)
  • Mean difference in infant mortality rate in Medicaid expansion versus non-Medicaid expansion states increased from 0.573 ( P = .08) in 2014 to 0.838 in 2016 ( P = .006) because of smaller declines in non-Medicaid expansion (11.0%) than in Medicaid expansion (15.2%) states. (medscape.com)
  • Bevin's alternative hinges on approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (scienceblogs.com)
  • This stipulation, and other requirements for plan members, was included in the plan under a waiver with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (eurekalert.org)
  • We are encouraged by Indiana and Gov. Pence's commitment to helping cover more of the state's uninsured population through the Healthy Indiana program and look forward to seeing his proposal," said Emma Sandoe, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (politico.com)
  • That does not count Pennsylvania, where GOP Gov. Tom Corbett is negotiating with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on a waiver proposal to expand eligibility. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Inappropriate use of antimicrobial drugs in Medicaid ed in a state that was funded by the Centers for Disease programs is a potentially serious problem ( 4 , 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Financing Administration (HCFA), renamed in 2001 as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)1. (who.int)
  • Coordination and Maintenance Committee and approved by the Director of NCHS and the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly HCFA). (cdc.gov)
  • Almost 60 percent of the 360,000 Virginians who would benefit from the state's Medicaid expansion-roughly 212,000 residents-are working Virginians employed in occupations that most people rely on daily and are critical to the state's economy, says a report released today by Virginia Organizing and Families USA . (augustafreepress.com)
  • And in Montana , voters will decide whether to approve a tobacco tax to continue that state's Medicaid expansion or let it roll back next year. (wypr.org)
  • Not all of them would qualify for Medicaid under expansion. (whro.org)
  • The parents might qualify for expanded Medicaid, but their kids were already eligible under Medicaid or CHIP. (politifact.com)
  • Earlier this year, lawmakers agreed to a limited expansion that requires people on Medicaid to work or volunteer to qualify for benefits. (wypr.org)
  • Wyoming's health department estimates it would cover about 24,000 state residents in its first two years of Medicaid expansion with an estimated annual cost to the state of $20 million, a figure supporters say would be more than offset with the new subsidies. (kotatv.com)
  • Legislation surfaced last weekend that would have made Medicaid expansion contingent upon passing the gambling provisions. (ap.org)
  • Corbin did not respond to a request for comment, but North Carolina Senate Republican leadership said his bill is unrelated to the federal Medicaid expansion incentives and could not be considered traditional Medicaid expansion. (yahoo.com)
  • Gov. Tony Evers plans to include federal Medicaid expansion in his upcoming budget proposal to be announced on Feb. 28. (freebeacon.com)
  • More than 70 percent of the 7.4 million workers with pre-pandemic employer-based insurance through industries now vulnerable to high rates of unemployment were found to be eligible for some assistance with health insurance (Medicaid or marketplace subsidies) if they lost their jobs. (rwjf.org)
  • If the additional federal unemployment compensation was not used to determine eligibility for health insurance assistance, 78 percent of expansion state workers in the most vulnerable industries would be eligible for assistance compared to 59 percent of their counterparts in the 15 nonexpansion states. (rwjf.org)
  • As many as 400,000 people would be eligible for Medicaid expansion. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • To be eligible for Medicaid currently, a family of two needs to make less than $24,353 a year. (whro.org)
  • Benjamin Sommers at the Harvard School of Public Health said research he and his colleagues did showed that about half of the Medicaid increases came through eligibility changes and about a half through drawing in those who were eligible before. (politifact.com)
  • In Wyoming's case, the offered 5% increase in federal funds for its traditional Medicaid program could bring in $120 million in each of the two years it's offered. (kotatv.com)
  • Within the ten states that have not opted for Medicaid expansion, the median income limit for eligibility in the traditional Medicaid program is 38 percent of the FPL. (wikipedia.org)
  • The current best evidence on the ACA's Medicaid expansion suggests that improvements in access to and quality of care, as well as to some degree in health, have occurred," said Olena Mazurenko, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. (medindia.net)
  • Nearly half of people covered under Michigan's Medicaid expansion said their health improved immediately after enrolling. (michiganradio.org)
  • If it works, we can always advance it further and cover more," Dunnigan said, winning the votes of the Republicans on the task force who said they worry about the long-term costs of extending Medicaid benefits. (sltrib.com)
  • Proponents of Medicaid expansion say it will return more federal tax money to the state and allow South Dakota to use more federal funds on residents' health. (keloland.com)
  • School-choice proponents have praised the expansion, which they say will help all children succeed in the classroom. (ap.org)
  • Hospitals have been among the most vocal proponents of Medicaid expansion. (carolinajournal.com)
  • Even if the stated savings were applied, as expansion proponents argue, WILL and CROWE note that Medicaid expansion will still cost Wisconsin $600 million per year. (freebeacon.com)
  • A new White House proposal to offer nearly free health insurance to millions of low-income Americans would accomplish the same goal as previous efforts to expand Medicaid in Tennessee but would cut the need for state funding or approval from state lawmakers. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • Instead of expanding a flawed Medicaid model that is too costly, delivers subpar health care, and shifts more power to the national government, state lawmakers should focus on reforming the current system before choosing to expand it," wrote Glans. (heartland.org)
  • To better provide healthcare to Georgia's surging population and as a way to balance the state's budget, conservative lawmakers are renewing temporary Medicaid payment increases and looking at expanding the program, a Republican state Senate leader said. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • Lawmakers came to an agreement today and state Republicans said they are moving forward passing an expansion proposal. (whro.org)
  • North Carolina lawmakers came close to approving expansion in the past but couldn't iron out some details. (whro.org)
  • This week, Idaho's GOP lawmakers and governor joined their peers in Utah and Nebraska in slapping work requirements and other restrictions on access to Medicaid. (democrats.org)
  • The campaign to get Medicaid expansion onto the ballot in Utah and the three other states has been led by The Fairness Project , a nonprofit advocacy group that pushed for ballot measures on issues where lawmakers seem out of sync with citizens. (wypr.org)
  • It's unclear how they might react to a proposal that would combine Medicaid expansion with a repeal of CON restrictions. (carolinajournal.com)
  • Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he won't "sit silent" and watch the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion get "ripped out" as Republicans work to repeal the law. (wkbw.com)
  • Dunnigan, who accompanied Herbert to Washington two times as the governor negotiated with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, blasted the feds for not allowing a higher match rate if the state expands Medicaid only to those whose incomes are at or below poverty levels. (sltrib.com)
  • The public deserves an honest debate about the true costs and trade-offs of any proposal that expands Medicaid in Wisconsin. (freebeacon.com)
  • In fact, a summary of the proposal describes it as a move to "eliminate traditional Medicaid" for non-disabled Hoosiers. (politico.com)
  • Pence also plans to submit a waiver request to CMS to continue the Healthy Indiana Plan in more a limited form, in case the feds reject his expansion proposal. (politico.com)
  • Of course, Medicaid expansion is a policy proposal that some in North Carolina would want to happen. (johnlocke.org)
  • The proposal has the same aim and impact as Medicaid expansion but would not actually expand TennCare in any way. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • If the Biden proposal survives a divided Congress and is enacted into federal law, it could be transformative for Tennessee and other deep-red states where Medicaid expansion has long been a political non-starter. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • If the waiver request is approved, Pence would become the eighth Republican governor to expand his state's Medicaid program. (politico.com)
  • Chris Jacobs of the Juniper Research Group penned a revealing Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal on the experience that Louisiana had following the expansion of their Medicaid program. (johnlocke.org)
  • March 27, 2014 -- New Hampshire Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan signed a bill last week that would expand the state's Medicaid program. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Georgia is one of 10 states to not expand Medicaid, the state-federal program that pays for health care for the poor, people with disabilities and many elderly patients. (ajc.com)
  • Hunt goes on to suggest that if he were governor of Georgia, he'd try to get him one of those nice waivers that have allowed GOP governors to mess with the basic Medicaid program in a conservative direction in exchange for allowing an expansion. (washingtonmonthly.com)
  • The measure would expand MaineCare, the state's Medicaid program, to people who earn as much as 138 percent of the federal poverty level, just over $15,856 a year for an individual. (pressherald.com)
  • Medicaid is the national insurance program for low-income Americans. (whro.org)
  • Currently, Virginia's Medicaid program sets an annual income eligibility ceiling of $10,290 for a family of three. (augustafreepress.com)
  • That includes many people who gained health care through more generous rules for Medicaid, a longstanding federal program for the very poor. (politifact.com)
  • It said that Medicaid and CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) added 14.5 million people by the end of 2015. (politifact.com)
  • The report compared two groups of similar people: one group in the state's Medicaid program and another that was not enrolled in the state's Medicaid program. (mackinac.org)
  • Medicaid Control and Prevention (CDC) Get Smart: Know When is a US health insurance program that covers 58 million Antibiotics Work campaign for appropriate antimicrobial low-income persons and families ( 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Until 1977, the Social Security Administration (SSA) managed the Medicare program, and the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS) managed the Medicaid program. (who.int)
  • Since the start of the outbreak, many governors - such as North Carolina's Roy Cooper, a Democrat - have requested and received waivers from the Trump administration to give their Medicaid programs more flexibility amid the disaster. (nbcnews.com)
  • Many doctors, other providers and health policy experts believe the lack of expansion leads to worsening health outcomes and will harm the state's poor residents for years to come. (ajc.com)
  • The report notes that if Virginia had expanded Medicaid when the option was first available in January 2014, federal funds flowing into the state could have supported 23,000 jobs in the health care sector, contributing approximately $530 million in state income and tax revenue. (augustafreepress.com)
  • Medicaid expansion is the right thing to do, despite Ken Cuccinelli's claims in his Op/Ed column, "Medicaid expansion is wrong for Virginia. (virginia-organizing.org)
  • Who committed the biggest Medicaid fraud in Virginia? (virginia-organizing.org)
  • We wanted to make clear to our Delegates and Senators in the Virginia General Assembly that they should expand Medicaid . (virginia-organizing.org)
  • As partners, VICPP and Virginia Organizing are releasing the updated Medicaid chartbook prepared by The Commonwealth Institute (TCI). (virginia-organizing.org)
  • exposed ineligible Medicaid beneficiaries, including at least 1,672 people who made more than $100,000. (johnlocke.org)
  • We know that the lack of Medicaid expansion and the governor's attempt to come up with a contrived system is an opportunity for him to eliminate people, just like attempts at eliminating voters," said Sandra Lee Williams, president of the Atlanta North Georgia Labor Council. (ajc.com)
  • In all, hospital stays by uninsured patients went down 50 percent, and stays by people with Medicaid went up 20 percent, between the end of 2013 and the middle of 2014. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In expansion states, we see exactly what we would expect to happen after Medicaid became available to more people," says Sayeh Nikpay, Ph.D., MPH, lead author of the new study published in the January issue of Health Affairs . (sciencedaily.com)
  • This is likely, they say, because those who were uninsured before 2014 and became sick enough to need hospital care in the first half of that year were likely to have been lower-income people who qualified for Medicaid under the new expanded criteria. (sciencedaily.com)
  • That's a weekly occurrence for him in Wyoming, he said, because the state hasn't expanded Medicaid, an option that could provide health care to thousands of working people in the state. (yahoo.com)
  • According to two people close to recent negotiations, however, concrete conversations among North Carolina Senate Republicans about Medicaid expansion legislation have progressed further than ever before - just ahead of the April 6 bill filing deadline in the Senate. (yahoo.com)
  • Sen. Renee Unterman, chairwoman of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, said that while she's been critical of Medicaid expansion, she has seen hospitals close and people waiting to see providers. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • The problem with expansion is, who is going to treat these people? (modernhealthcare.com)
  • An estimated 60,000 people in North Carolina could benefit from Medicaid expansion, with a notable impact on rural areas of the state in the northeastern region. (whro.org)
  • said dealing with people who got Medicaid is "the big question. (politifact.com)
  • The share of people who had trouble paying their medical bills fell by 9 percentage points more in the expansion states than in Texas. (cbpp.org)
  • But most fraud is committed not by recipients but by providers - the people who bill Medicaid for their services. (virginia-organizing.org)
  • Some of the same people pushing hard for Medicaid expansion adamantly oppose state government relaxing scope-of-practice restrictions. (carolinajournal.com)
  • Oregon provided a unique setting for the researchers because in 2008 the state provided money for 10,000 people to go on Medicaid. (mackinac.org)
  • Because Medicaid reimbursement rates to health care providers are much lower than private health insurance, when people leave private health insurance for Medicaid, health care providers lose money on lower reimbursements, the authors explain. (freebeacon.com)
  • People within this categorization have incomes above the eligibility limits for Medicaid set by their state of residence but fall below the federal poverty line (FPL), resulting in deficient access to affordable health insurance. (wikipedia.org)
  • A national group of doctors gathered Sunday for a march in downtown Atlanta, pushing for the expansion of Medicaid, while also urging Wellstar Health System to donate the former Atlanta Medical Center site to the city. (ajc.com)
  • Last week, Democrats said that if Maine does not expand Medicaid, it will increase the likelihood that more than 150 low-income Mainers with chronic illnesses will die. (pressherald.com)
  • The 19 states that have not expanded Medicaid will likely face pressure from Democrats to fall in line with the 31 states that have. (heartland.org)
  • Instead, it would cover the same low-income population while sidestepping the primary obstacle preventing Medicaid expansion in Tennessee - state Republicans . (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • Additional states expanded years later due to political shifts or voter initiatives, and today there are just 12 non-expansion states - all of which are controlled by Republicans . (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • He said Republicans are under significant pressure to reject expansion, but he encouraged them to think about the impact on their constituents. (pressherald.com)
  • In those that have refused to expand Medicaid, Republicans in power have maintained that their states cannot afford to pursue the measure and their opposition has become more ideological over time. (yahoo.com)
  • Many have noted Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's office said she is " open to the discussion " after she and state GOP leaders have long opposed expansion, but there is also fresh movement among some Republicans in North Carolina, Texas and in other states - something many once thought impossible. (yahoo.com)
  • It's one of the first public announcement by North Carolina Senate Republicans that signaled they are working on a form of health care expansion. (yahoo.com)
  • Cooper spoke about delays in the state budget that can now be attributed to a standoff between House and Senate Republicans over whether to insert gambling expansion provisions within the legislation. (ap.org)
  • In contrast, Medicare and Medicaid - the two largest government health insurance programs - regulate the rates that providers receive. (who.int)
  • The private sector also led the development of the health insurance system in the early 1930s, as the major federal government health insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid, were not established until the mid-1960s. (who.int)
  • In non-expansion states, the mortality rate was 7 percent from January 2011 to January 2014 (prior to ACA) and 6.8 percent from January 2014 to March 2017, a reduction of 0.2 percentage points. (brown.edu)
  • Schleifer points to a study in the October 2017 issue of the journal Health Affairs that shows an 11 percent decline in payday loans in California after that state expanded Medicaid benefits. (wypr.org)
  • But the same study also shows the flip side of the situation, in a sample of states that didn't expand Medicaid after a Supreme Court decision made expansion optional. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The Supreme Court held in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius that adoption of Medicaid expansion by states was effectively optional, and that states could continue with their preexisting Medicaid requirements without risk of defunding. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012) rendered state adoption of Medicaid expansion optional. (wikipedia.org)
  • He intends to cover the state's share of Medicaid expansion costs using revenue from an existing cigarette tax and an assessment on hospitals. (politico.com)
  • However, a recent report released by the Congressional Budget Office analyzing projected profit margins over the coming decade concluded, "Medicaid expansion will not make a material difference in hospitals' overall viability. (heartland.org)
  • The second new study , by researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan, found that hospitals in expansion states experienced "dramatic decreases in uninsured hospital stays" between 2013 and 2014. (cbpp.org)
  • Many residents in three deep-red states rejoiced last fall when voters approved Medicaid expansion, circumventing the objections of their elected representatives. (democrats.org)
  • In June 2020, Oklahoma voters narrowly approved an initiative petition, State Question 802 , to expand Medicaid effective July 1, 2021. (okpolicy.org)
  • In Medicaid expansion states, the number of patients who died within the first year of beginning dialysis - defined in the study as from the 91 st day to the end of the 15 th month of dialysis treatment - decreased from 6.9 percent prior to expansion to 6.1 percent after expansion, a total reduction of 0.8 percentage points. (brown.edu)
  • The adjusted absolute reduction in mortality in expansion states versus non-expansion states was 0.6 percentage points. (brown.edu)
  • Fistulas and grafts - two methods for accessing the bloodstream for dialysis - are less likely to become infected than temporary venous catheters, and in expansion states there was an increase of 2.3 percentage points in the number of patients beginning dialysis with a fistula or graft. (brown.edu)
  • The share of residents with a personal doctor rose by 8 percentage points more in the expansion states than in Texas between 2013 and 2014. (cbpp.org)
  • Under the American Rescue Plan approved by Congress in 2021, states that expand Medicaid also receive a 5 percentage point increase in their regular federal matching rate for two years after expansion takes effect. (okpolicy.org)
  • Overall, receipt of first trimester prenatal care increased post-expansion by 1.5 percentage points (p (bvsalud.org)
  • Receipt of adequate prenatal care also increased significantly post-expansion with an incremental increase of 2.8 percentage points (p (bvsalud.org)
  • The researchers did not include data from Michigan, a state that expanded Medicaid but didn't begin enrolling and covering residents until April 2014. (sciencedaily.com)
  • But before going down this path, Nebraskans should know every state that expanded Medicaid has created an unsustainable burden on taxpayers and crowded out resources for the truly needy. (americansforprosperity.org)
  • Protestors march to expand access to Medicaid in Georgia in front of Wellstar's Atlanta Medical Center which used to be an Emory Hospital before it was shut down years ago in Atlanta on Sunday, November 12, 2023. (ajc.com)
  • If we make the positive decision to expand Medicaid, that needs to be done in conjunction with a recognition of the impact of putting 300,000, 400,000 - whatever the number is - of new folks into our health care system, in terms of having access to their bills being paid," Berger said. (carolinajournal.com)
  • Impact of Medicaid expansion in Oregon on access to prenatal care. (bvsalud.org)
  • About a fifth of North Carolinians are covered by Medicaid as of October. (whro.org)
  • States trying to decide whether to expand their Medicaid programs to cover more low-income uninsured might want to take a look at the fate of. (taxpolicycenter.org)
  • Several other states are actively considering expanding their Medicaid programs. (medindia.net)
  • How Does Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Impact State Medicaid Programs? (medindia.net)
  • In this study financial impacts of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and opioid use during pregnancy on the state Medicaid programs are being studied. (medindia.net)
  • Medicaid expansions and crowd-out: evidence from HIFA premium assistance programs. (cdc.gov)
  • Similar to Medicaid Programs most prescription claims data, Medicaid drug claims do not list a diagnosis that corresponds to the indication for treatment. (cdc.gov)
  • The pro-expansion argument usually revolves around the piles of cash - from taxpayers in other states - that will redound to the particular state in question," said Avik Roy, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who recently was in Michigan speaking about Medicaid expansion. (mackinac.org)
  • Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin will cost taxpayers $600 million every year and drive up prices in the private sector as well. (freebeacon.com)
  • It's expected that funding could cover the states' Medicaid costs for that period. (yahoo.com)
  • As part of the deal, the federal government foots most of the bill, now covering 90 percent of the health care costs of the expansion patients. (wypr.org)
  • They've done nothing to modify that 90/10 split" between federal and state obligations for Medicaid expansion costs, Berger said. (carolinajournal.com)
  • It compares private sector health insurance costs and emergency room visits in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility and in states that did not expand Medicaid. (freebeacon.com)
  • Supporters of Medicaid expansion often point to so-called free money from the federal government without truly understanding the costs to consumers," Voss added. (freebeacon.com)
  • The federal government covers 50% of traditional Medicaid costs and 90% of the Medicaid expansion costs. (kotatv.com)
  • Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa , D-McAllen, agreed with testimony that even if Texas does not expand Medicaid, there will be continued costs for caring for the uninsured. (texastribune.org)
  • States choosing to participate in Medicaid expansion would also have additional Medicaid costs fully covered by the federal government in the first three years of expansion slated to begin in 2014, with a stepwise decrease in the federal government's share to 90 percent in 2020 and thereafter. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cite this: Medicaid Expansion Closing Racial Gap in GI Cancer Deaths - Medscape - May 25, 2023. (medscape.com)
  • As of July 2023, over 330,000 individuals had been approved for benefits under Medicaid expansion. (okpolicy.org)
  • As of July 2023, 41 states , including Washington D.C., have expanded Medicaid. (okpolicy.org)
  • As of March 2023[update], 40 states and the District of Columbia have adopted Medicaid expansion, leaving 10 states that have not. (wikipedia.org)
  • The uninsured rate within the non-expansion states was 15.4 percent in March 2023[update] compared to 8.1 percent in expansion states. (wikipedia.org)
  • The move surprised and disappointed the governor's point man on Medicaid expansion, David Patton, executive director of the Utah Department of Health. (sltrib.com)
  • The Legislative Research Council's Fiscal Note for Amendment D says Medicaid expansion would cover 42,500 new individuals for a cost of $297 million, which would cost the state $32.5 million and give $63.5 million in general fund savings. (keloland.com)
  • AUGUSTA - A bill to expand Medicaid to cover more than 60,000 uninsured Mainers was dealt another blow Tuesday as the House voted to pass it 97-49, a single vote less than the two-thirds majority needed to override a certain veto by Gov. Paul LePage. (pressherald.com)
  • The Medicaid statute also permitted states to cover some cohorts (termed "optional eligibility groups") without a permit. (wikipedia.org)
  • Black patients with advanced stage disease experienced a 12.6% reduction in mortality in expansion states. (medscape.com)