The Wall Street Journal: "Several states are preparing to make deep cuts to Medicaid as a federal stalemate over funding for the poor drags on - even as states face mandates to expand the program under the new health-care law." Efforts to extend provisions of the stimulus programs that provided...
Despite states' warnings that they will face massive budget cuts without help from Washington, Congress has not yet moved to provide $24.2 billion in additional Medicaid funding that many statehouses had anticipated would be included in a failed June bill, American Medical News reports...
Washington Examiner: "Lawmakers in Virginia and Maryland are bracing for a congressional impasse over millions of dollars in health care funding that threatens to thrust both states into the red. The Medicaid funding is set to expire in January, and a measure to extend it is stalled in the...
Connecticut on Monday became the first state to expand eligibility for Medicaid coverage to low-income adults under a provision of the new health reform law (PL 111-148), the Hartford Courant reports. The state estimates that 45,000 residents will be eligible for the new coverage (Sturdevant...
Washington Examiner: "Lawmakers in Virginia and Maryland are bracing for a congressional impasse over millions of dollars in health care funding that threatens to thrust both states into the red. The Medicaid funding is set to expire in January, and a measure to extend it is stalled in the...
Connecticut on Monday became the first state to expand eligibility for Medicaid coverage to low-income adults under a provision of the new health reform law (PL 111-148), the Hartford Courant reports. The state estimates that 45,000 residents will be eligible for the new coverage (Sturdevant...
Washington Examiner: "Lawmakers in Virginia and Maryland are bracing for a congressional impasse over millions of dollars in health care funding that threatens to thrust both states into the red. The Medicaid funding is set to expire in January, and a measure to extend it is stalled in the...
Connecticut on Monday became the first state to expand eligibility for Medicaid coverage to low-income adults under a provision of the new health reform law (PL 111-148), the Hartford Courant reports. The state estimates that 45,000 residents will be eligible for the new coverage (Sturdevant...
Washington Examiner: "Lawmakers in Virginia and Maryland are bracing for a congressional impasse over millions of dollars in health care funding that threatens to thrust both states into the red. The Medicaid funding is set to expire in January, and a measure to extend it is stalled in the...
Connecticut on Monday became the first state to expand eligibility for Medicaid coverage to low-income adults under a provision of the new health reform law (PL 111-148), the Hartford Courant reports. The state estimates that 45,000 residents will be eligible for the new coverage (Sturdevant...
Washington Examiner: "Lawmakers in Virginia and Maryland are bracing for a congressional impasse over millions of dollars in health care funding that threatens to thrust both states into the red. The Medicaid funding is set to expire in January, and a measure to extend it is stalled in the...
Connecticut on Monday became the first state to expand eligibility for Medicaid coverage to low-income adults under a provision of the new health reform law (PL 111-148), the Hartford Courant reports. The state estimates that 45,000 residents will be eligible for the new coverage (Sturdevant...
The Wall Street Journal: "Emergency rooms in downtown Manhattan have become more crowded since St. Vincent's Hospital closed in April, but ambulances are getting patients into the remaining ERs faster than they did when the 161-year-old Greenwich Village hospital was open." Bellevue Hospital...
Illinois will face a $750 million shortfall in the fiscal year beginning in July if Congress doesn't extend increased Medicaid funding, originally part of last year's economic stimulus, Illinois Statehouse News reports. "The increased Medicaid reimbursements stand as a national issue as the...
The Wall Street Journal: "Emergency rooms in downtown Manhattan have become more crowded since St. Vincent's Hospital closed in April, but ambulances are getting patients into the remaining ERs faster than they did when the 161-year-old Greenwich Village hospital was open." Bellevue Hospital...
Illinois will face a $750 million shortfall in the fiscal year beginning in July if Congress doesn't extend increased Medicaid funding, originally part of last year's economic stimulus, Illinois Statehouse News reports. "The increased Medicaid reimbursements stand as a national issue as the...
The Wall Street Journal: "Emergency rooms in downtown Manhattan have become more crowded since St. Vincent's Hospital closed in April, but ambulances are getting patients into the remaining ERs faster than they did when the 161-year-old Greenwich Village hospital was open." Bellevue Hospital...
Illinois will face a $750 million shortfall in the fiscal year beginning in July if Congress doesn't extend increased Medicaid funding, originally part of last year's economic stimulus, Illinois Statehouse News reports. "The increased Medicaid reimbursements stand as a national issue as the...
The Boston Globe: "The Massachusetts delegation sent letters yesterday to House and Senate leaders urging them to support an extension of Medicaid funding that officials in Massachusetts and other states say is vital to prevent drastic cuts in services and increases in layoffs." Newly elected...
is it possible for me to check the status of my virginia medicaid application online? if so how? also my case worker 3 weeks ago said that i was approved but i still have not gotten anything in the mail, so i wanted to see if i can just handle it online.