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Here's how the Cumberland County Department of Social Services is preparing for the Dec. 1 Medicaid expansion that some are calling a "gamechanger." DSS prepares for 'perfect storm' as 35,000 ...
The Health Insurance Premium Payment Program (HIPP) is a Medicaid program that allows a recipient to receive free private health insurance paid for entirely by their state's Medicaid program. A Medicaid recipient must be deemed 'cost effective' by the HIPP program of their state. Ultimately, the program was made optional, and its use is minimal ...
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.
Already, about 1.5 million people have been removed from Medicaid in more than two dozen states that started the process The post 1 million dropped from Medicaid as states start post-pandemic ...
One of the 2010 law’s primary means to achieve that goal is expanding Medicaid eligibility to more people near the poverty level. But a crucial Supreme Court ruling in 2012 granted states the power to reject the Medicaid expansion, entrenching a two-tiered health care system in America, where the uninsured rate remains disproportionately high ...
More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care coverage following the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
Prior to the ACA main provisions [36] going into effect on January 1, 2014, a number of Medicaid expansion states had had laws and regulations that underwent non-LTCR estate recovery and have stopped or limited the practice but not necessarily permanently: New York (starting April 1, 2014) [37] [38]