By Anne Blythe For all those waiting with bated breath to find out whether Medicaid will be expanded to nearly 600,000 more North Carolinians, take a pause. Republicans in the state House of Representatives are not ready to embrace the policy whole hog. Instead, there will be one more study […]
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Should North Carolina operate its Medicaid oral health program as fee-for-service or transition to managed care?
By Anne Blythe As lawmakers ponder whether to expand Medicaid to add some 600,000 more people to the rolls, the North Carolina Oral Health Collaborative is looking at a different aspect of the federal- and state-sponsored insurance program. Nearly a year ago, North Carolina transformed its Medicaid program from a […]
NC Senate Republicans float Medicaid expansion bill
By Rose Hoban and Rachel Crumpler It finally happened. In a move that many health care advocates have been pushing for years, the state Senate introduced a bill on Wednesday that would expand the state’s Medicaid program to some half million-plus low-income North Carolinians. Until this point, Medicaid has been […]
Ohio could soon be kicking people off Medicaid. Here’s how to stay on
Additional than 3 million very low-income and/or disabled Ohioans count on government-paid health insurance policies in the sort of Medicaid. Considering that the COVID-19 pandemic started, the federal authorities prevented any individual from remaining taken off from the application, but that could end shortly. In July, the federal authorities could conclusion […]
Pandemic uncertainty complicates Medicaid budget
By Rose Hoban What a difference a decade can make. Republican lawmakers raised a ruckus 10 years ago when officials from the state Department of Health and Human Services informed them that North Carolina had spent millions of dollars more than projected on the Medicaid budget. But this month, when […]
Medicaid winds down coverage for PT & OT telehealth
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Before the pandemic, Valerie Fox almost never used telehealth — nobody did at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Durham, where she works as a behavioral health occupational therapist. Now, many patients request it. “Especially with the VA, a lot of people come from a lot of […]