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In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...
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.
A 2016 study found that residents of Kentucky and Arkansas, which both expanded Medicaid, were more likely to receive health care services and less likely to incur emergency room costs or have trouble paying their medical bills. Residents of Texas, which did not accept the Medicaid expansion, did not see a similar improvement during the same ...
When Medicaid was implemented in 1965 it featured an “inmate exclusion policy” that served as a federal prohibition for providing inmates with the health care service. Kentucky prisoners may ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Trump administration has again approved new rules for some of Kentucky's Medicaid population, requiring them to either get a job, volunteer in the community or go to ...
Molina Healthcare, a major Medicaid provider, said that it was considering exiting some markets in 2018, citing "too many unknowns with the marketplace program." Molina lost $110 million in 2016 due to having to contribute $325 million more than expected to the ACA "risk transfer" fund that compensated insurers with unprofitable risk pools.
The concern behind the measure, House Bill 408, is that some substance-abuse recovery facilities have recruited clients from Tennessee and other states to come to Kentucky and enroll in Medicaid ...
Even for doctors trained in addiction medicine — motivated to treat opioid addicts with buprenorphine and able to work within Medicaid’s numerical limits — there are still roadblocks. Kentucky’s Medicaid program, like those of many other states, requires prior authorization before it agrees to pay for the medication.