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The Alabama Department of Public Health is the primary state health agency of the government of the U.S. state of Alabama. It provides a number of public health services to Alabama residents. [1] Chronically underfunded for decades, even by a health professional as governor (Bentley), it ranks near the bottom among states. [2]
The guidelines for calculating the FMAP are outlined in the Social Security Act and they exclusively determine the ratio of matching funds for each state's Medicaid program. Section 2105(b)of the Act stipulate that "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages," or Enhanced FMAPs, will be calculated at the same time as the FMAPs.
Introduced in the House as the "Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987" by William H. Gray III (D–PA) on October 26, 1987; Committee consideration by Budget; Passed the House on October 29, 1987 (206–205)
Republicans in Congress are resurfacing an old idea − requiring many adults on Medicaid to get a job so they can keep their health insurance. The work requirement is one of several ways the GOP ...
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, many states had the opportunity to expand their Medicaid eligibility for low-income adults, which 39 states adopted by 2021. Apart from ...
Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced new rules that will require Medicare Advantage insurers to rule on prior authorization requests more quickly, but the change ...
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.
(The Alabama insurance guaranty fund is an emergency reserve pool maintained by periodic levies on all insurance companies to create a cash fund to pay the obligations of struggling insurers, [3] similar to FDIC for banks.) As of 2018 Tim Vines is the CEO and President of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, moving up from Vice President and COO.