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 reserved mostly for children from […]
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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 its COVID-19 unexpected emergency declaration. […]
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 Dave Richard, the DHHS head […]
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 different parts of the state […]
Postpartum Medicaid to be extended to one year
By Elizabeth Thompson Postpartum Medicaid will be extended from 60 days immediately after beginning to a single yr starting up now, as a provision involved in previous year’s condition spending budget comes into impact. The provision permits expecting people at or below 196 p.c of the federal poverty pointers – about $34,800 for a family […]
Is this the year NC gets Medicaid expansion?
By Anne Blythe The state Legislative Building designed by architect Edward Durell Stone almost 60 years ago has a maze of hallways where lawmakers often buttonhole each other for private discussions about contentious public issues. Rep. Donny Lambeth (R-Winston-Salem) is one of those lawmakers who has been taken aside recently to discuss the pros and […]