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As of April, the first month of the state's "unwinding" of continuous coverage, about 900,000 Iowans received Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, benefits.
Lawmakers approved granting low-income Iowa mothers a full year of Medicaid coverage and lowering the income threshold to qualify for coverage.
Gov. Kim Reynolds' bill would extend Medicaid coverage to low-income mothers, but Iowans with higher incomes would be dropped.
A Katie Beckett waiver or TEFRA waiver is a Medicaid waiver concerning the income eligibility for home-based Medicaid services for children under the age of nineteen. Prior to the Katie Beckett waiver, if a child with significant medical needs received treatment at home, the child's income would be deemed to include the parents' entire ...
[12] [13] Softening the eligibility requirements for Medicaid was a central goal of the ACA, [14] forming a two-pronged policy along with subsidized private insurance via health insurance marketplaces to expand health insurance coverage in the U.S. [15] [7] [3] The Medicaid expansion provision of the ACA allowed states to lower the income ...
[1] [2] Dual-eligibles make up 14% of Medicaid enrollment, yet they are responsible for approximately 36% of Medicaid expenditures. [3] Similarly, duals total 20% of Medicare enrollment, and spend 31% of Medicare dollars. [4] Dual-eligibles are often in poorer health and require more care compared with other Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. [5]
State officials awarded contracts to Delta Dental of Iowa and DentaQuest USA Insurance Company to oversee dental benefits for Iowa Medicaid members.
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