Not Just Another Election Year Blog Series: Medicaid Expansion and the 2024 Election
Medicaid has been a hot topic in previous elections – but is it in 2024? The previous blog in our series on health care and the 2024 elections discussed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the 2024 election. Today’s post will focus on Medicaid expansion and the 2024 election. Medicaid Expansion Has Grown […]
Not Just Another Election Year Blog Series: The ACA and the 2024 Election
Not Just Another Election Year Blog Series: The ACA and the 2024 Election This blog post kicks off a series on health care policy and the 2024 election. Unless you are living under a rock, or in a state of denial, you probably realize there will be an election in 2024. When many people think […]
What Happened, What You Missed: September 25-29, 2023
NC Medicaid Expansion to Launch on Dec. 1 Medicaid expansion is set to kick off in North Carolina on December 1, 2023, marking the end of a decade-long effort to use federal dollars to expand coverage for low-income residents. The North Carolina Department of Health estimates up to 600,000 people will be eligible for Medicaid coverage. Adults […]
What Happened, What You Missed: July 17-21, 2023
CMS Pauses Medicaid Redeterminations in Some States The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has temporarily paused the Medicaid redetermination process in a dozen states out of concern that too many enrollees may be losing their coverage for procedural reasons. Since a number of states resumed Medicaid redeterminations on April 1, over 3 million […]
What Happened, What You Missed: May 22-26, 2023
CMS Proposes Greater Drug Price Transparency in Medicaid A newly proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would require pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that contract with Medicaid to disclose the prices they pay for prescription drugs. The proposed rule is part of a Biden administration effort to boost price transparency by […]
What Happened, What You Missed: April 24-28, 2023
KFF: Up to 24 Million Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Between 8 and 24 million Americans could be disenrolled from Medicaid following the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), according to a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The PHE suspended the Medicaid redetermination process, which states use to determine eligibility for […]