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New CMS Proposal Will Reduce Hospitals’ DSH Allotments: Less Incentive for...
The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) put forth a new proposal setting forth aggregate reductions to state Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments from 2014 – 2020. First of all,...
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Provider Shortage for Medicaid Recipients
By Roberta Capp, Published: June 13 Roberta Capp is a Robert Wood Johnson clinical scholar fellow at Yale University, where she practices emergency medicine and is researching health care delivery for...
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Lessons From Early Medicaid Expansions Under The Affordable Care Act
Another shared article. Very interesting!! Look specifically at Issue #4. Lessons From Early Medicaid Expansions Under The Affordable Care Act ——————————————————————————– June 14th, 2013 by Benjamin...
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Why My Career, as a Medicaid Litigator/Medicaid Provider Advocate, is the...
I have the best and most rewarding career…EVER! It’s not the easiest career. It’s not a 9-5 job. When I schedule family trips, I normally have to cancel the trips or cut them short. Like next week, my...
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HHS Announces More Time for Noncompliant Plans, Other ACA Policies
BNA’s Health Care Policy Report: Posted March 5, 2014 The Obama administration March 5 said consumers can keep their health plans that don’t comply with the Affordable Care Act for two more years, as...
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Demand With Little Supply: Medicaid Enrollment Up, Physicians’ Acceptance of...
In microeconomics, you learn the theory of supply and demand, which is, basically, a model to determine the price of a product. The most basic explanation of supply and demand is if the demand for the...
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Medicaid Expansion, Polarization, and Diving Head-First Into the Unknown
I have always believed in the concept to think first, act second. I rarely react; I try to act. In politics, generally, this mantra is not followed. If a public poll states that the public is in favor...
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Haven’t Fixed Medicaid Yet…But I Haven’t Gotten Bucked Off Yet
There are a number of federal regulations that, if I were in charge, would be immediately amended. Obviously, I am not in charge, so despite my best blogging efforts, my blogs do not change federal...
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Key Medicaid Questions Post-Election
Disclosure: This is the opinion/facts from the Kaiser Family Foundation, not me. But I found this interesting. My opinion will be forthcoming. Kaiser Family Foundation article: Medicaid covers about 73...
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Medicaid Forecast: Cloudy with 100% Chance of Trump
Regardless how you voted, regardless whether you “accept” Trump as your president, and regardless with which party you are affiliated, we have a new President. And with a new President comes a new...
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Work Requirements for Medicaid?
Under the Trump Administration, some Republican governors may look to move their Medicaid programs in a more conservative direction. In his latest column for Axios, Drew Altman discusses the arguments...
View ArticleWhy My Career, as a Medicaid Litigator/Medicaid Provider Advocate, is the...
I have the best and most rewarding career…EVER! It’s not the easiest career. It’s not a 9-5 job. When I schedule family trips, I normally have to cancel the trips or cut them short. Like next week, my...
View ArticleHHS Announces More Time for Noncompliant Plans, Other ACA Policies
BNA’s Health Care Policy Report: Posted March 5, 2014 The Obama administration March 5 said consumers can keep their health plans that don’t comply with the Affordable Care Act for two more years, as...
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Demand With Little Supply: Medicaid Enrollment Up, Physicians’ Acceptance of...
In microeconomics, you learn the theory of supply and demand, which is, basically, a model to determine the price of a product. The most basic explanation of supply and demand is if the demand for the...
View ArticleMedicaid Expansion, Polarization, and Diving Head-First Into the Unknown
I have always believed in the concept to think first, act second. I rarely react; I try to act. In politics, generally, this mantra is not followed. If a public poll states that the public is in favor...
View ArticleHaven’t Fixed Medicaid Yet…But I Haven’t Gotten Bucked Off Yet
There are a number of federal regulations that, if I were in charge, would be immediately amended. Obviously, I am not in charge, so despite my best blogging efforts, my blogs do not change federal...
View ArticleKey Medicaid Questions Post-Election
Disclosure: This is the opinion/facts from the Kaiser Family Foundation, not me. But I found this interesting. My opinion will be forthcoming. Kaiser Family Foundation article: Medicaid covers about 73...
View ArticleFifth Circuit Rules Individual Mandate Unconstitutional but Leaves ACA’s Fate...
Extra, extra, read all about it: Breaking News! In a 2-1 decision issued December 18, a Fifth Circuit panel held that the individual mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional...
View ArticleExecutive Orders and Presidential Memorandums: A Civics Lesson
Before the informative article below , I have two announcements! (1) My blog has been “in publication” for over eight (8) years, this September 2020. Yay! I truly hope that my articles have been...
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