Medicaid expansion had great potential to affect community health centers (CHCs), particularly in rural areas, because their patients are predominantly low income and disproportionately uninsured.

Meghan Bellerose ([email protected]), Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York. Lauren Collin, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Jamie R.

A new federal bill could impose work rules on Medicaid, but states like South Carolina that didn't expand the program may see fewer immediate effects. GOP senator hits Trump tax bill, says there ...

The North Dakota Department of Transportation will host information sessions on part of the planned expansion of U.S ... end of the Highway 85 project. The widening project covers about 62 ...

Before managed care, OHCA could only draw down the difference between Medicaid and Medicare rates, totaling supplemental payments of about $800 million annually. As the state moved to managed care ...

Those states would see federal funding for the Medicaid expansion population — typically low-income adults — drop from 90% to 80%. That could mean states pull back that Medicaid coverage to ...

Virginia has a trigger law that would end Medicaid expansion in the state if the federal contribution to the program dips below 90%. Thus far, nothing in the federal proposal appears to reduce ...

Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) Chief of Staff Christina Foss has been appointed as the new state Medicaid director. Foss will serve in this role in addition to her current position as chief of ...

The Republican proposal also limits states' abilities to raise taxes to cover Medicaid expansion, and it cuts the amount the federal government will pay for states that choose to cover ...

That bill would have phased out the ACA’s Medicaid expansion and transitioned to block grants to states, booting millions off the program, many of them in Trump country, if the bill hadn’t ...

so it’s not clear yet whether conservative lawmakers got their wish to slash federal funding for states’ Medicaid expansion populations. The added work requirements, however, will now take ...

Medicaid expansion currently covers medical costs for adults aged 18 to 64 who are capable of working but may be between jobs or earning below a living wage. Griffith said the work requirement ...