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Oklahoma Question 802, the Oklahoma Medicaid Expansion Initiative, was a 2020 ballot measure on the June 30 ballot (alongside primaries for various statewide offices) to expand Medicaid in the state of Oklahoma. It passed narrowly, over the objections of many prominent state elected officials, such as Oklahoma's governor Kevin Stitt. Medicaid ...
Dec. 22—Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield on Wednesday announced the company had agreed to acquire a Medicaid contract held by Paramount Advantage, action that comes six weeks after a judge ...
2.6 million were in the "coverage gap" due to the 19 states that chose not to expand the Medicaid program under the ACA/Obamacare, meaning their income was above the Medicaid eligibility limit but below the threshold for subsidies on the ACA exchanges (~44% to 100% of the federal poverty level or FPL); 5.4 million were undocumented immigrants;
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.
RICHMOND, Ind. — On March 18, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield customers might lose insurance access from the Reid Health network of medical providers, according to both agencies.
In Oklahoma, more than half of all births qualify for Medicaid. Oklahoma is among 47 states that have expanded Medicaid coverage for postpartum care for up to 12 months, up from 60 days ...
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority has the primary duty of executing SoonerCare, the Oklahoma version of Medicaid. SoonerCare is a health coverage program jointly funded by the United States federal government and the Oklahoma state government. The program provides payments to cover medical services to economically challenged individuals.
As of March 2016 11.1 million people had purchased exchange plans, while an estimated 9 million to 10 million people had gained Medicaid coverage, mostly low-income adults. [citation needed] 11.1 million were still covered, a decline of nearly 13 percent. [47] 6.1 million uninsured 19- to 25-year-olds gained coverage. [48]