Nursing Home Patients Returning To The Community
A federal program is helping thousands of elderly and disabled patients transition from nursing homes to more independent living.
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A federal program is helping thousands of elderly and disabled patients transition from nursing homes to more independent living.
ACOs are among the most ambitious of the new Medicaid cost containment and quality improvement schemes that have arisen in response to the federal health law and state fiscal pressures.
KHN hosts a discussion on the Obama and Romney plans with former Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle and conservative health care analyst Avik Roy, followed by a reporters' roundtable with KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and Sarah Varney, Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post and Politico's Jonathan Allen.
The Medicaid program was not a major focus of Wednesday night's debate between President Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, but it was a topic of discussion as the two candidates laid out their domestic policy priorities.
Frequently asked questions about Romney and Obama's very different visions for the future of state-federal health program.
Gov. Paul LePage is seeking cuts to the rolls of MaineCare, the state's Medicaid program, by more than 23,000 people and reduced benefits for nearly 3,800 others.
Arkansas hopes a unique collaboration with the state's big insurers can help them and the state.
This metaphor may be useful in decoding the gradations and complexities of insurance coverage and access to care.
After their release, former prisoners often don't have a job and, therefore, don't have health insurance. The health law's Medicaid expansion could be changing that soon, though.
The Obama administration released a report Friday afternoon detailing the automatic cuts that would begin in January as part of deal to raise the debt ceiling made last summer by the administration and Congress, staff writer Mary Agnes Carey reports.
As part of his 50-minute defense of the Obama administration's record, the former president praised Obama's health policies, asking, "Are we better off because President Obama fought for health care reform? You bet we are."
The state sets the largest financial incentive program in the country, tying about 10 percent of reimbursements to facilities' meeting quality standards.
Under Ryan's plan, the federal share of Medicaid spending would drop sharply as the program becomes a block grant to states, indexed for inflation and population growth.
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But the rate is almost twice as high in New Jersey, largely because the state pays doctors so little to participate in the program for low-income and disabled residents.
Illinois is the latest state to act, imposing a limit of four drugs.
Provider cuts may limit care for poor people and make it harder to expand the program in 2014.
Mississippi family's insurance problems could remain if state decides to follow Supreme Court's option to decline Medicaid expansion.
Cuts to the state budget leave Medicaid beneficiaries with only basic dental coverage.
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