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Introduced for Medicaid in 1989 and Medicare in 1990, this designation allowed HRSA-funded health centers to receive cost-based reimbursement rates. Covered services included those provided by physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, clinical psychologists, and clinical social workers.
Of the subtypes of health insurance coverage, employer-based insurance remained the most common, covering 55.1 percent of the population for all or part of the calendar year. Between 2017 and 2018, the percentage of people covered by Medicaid decreased by 0.7 percentage points to 17.9 percent.
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.
Gov. Kim Reynolds' bill would extend Medicaid coverage to low-income mothers, but Iowans with higher incomes would be dropped.
Under the bill, the maximum family income to be eligible for postpartum Medicaid coverage in Iowa is reduced. Currently, new mothers with a maximum family income of 375% of the federal poverty ...
Beginning July 1, the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services dropped an administrative policy that required an in-person doctor's appointment and a prescription in order for Medicaid to ...
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (UIHC) is an 811-bed public teaching hospital and level 1 trauma center affiliated with the University of Iowa.UI Hospitals and Clinics is part of University of Iowa Health Care, a partnership that includes the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and the University of Iowa Physicians group practice.
Maximus Inc. has announced the layoff of 34 remote workers in central Iowa after 20 years as a contractor supporting member services for Iowa Medicaid and the Hawk-I program, which provides health ...