Highlight on Alabama: Public health officials fighting to balance access,...
Alabama health news lately has focused on maintaining access to certain health care services, including abortion services and mental health. This priority, however, is coming up against concerns...
View ArticleIs Louisiana ready to expand Medicaid?
Outgoing Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) adamantly opposed everything about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) (P.L. 111-148), including Medicaid expansion, and the Republicans in...
View ArticleMinding the mental health problem from the start
The alarming incidence of mental health and substance abuse problems in the United States can be mitigated with a reliance on prevention and early intervention (PEI), according to a Mental Health...
View ArticleHighlight on Virginia: Health Opportunity Index maps out disparities
An updated version of the Virginia Health Opportunity Index (HOI) allows consumers, policymakers, and providers to evaluate multiple social determinants of health as they impact different geographic...
View ArticleNortheast co-op in precarious financial position after offering big salaries
Community Health Options (CHO), a health co-operative that serves customers in Maine and New Hampshire, is the latest co-op under intense scrutiny after experiencing significant financial difficulties....
View ArticleHighlight on Oklahoma: Budget cuts are leaving providers weak
An Oklahoma budget deficit is leading to actual and proposed rate cuts that could have a dramatic impact on patients and providers. This month, the State Medicaid agency proposed to cut Medicaid...
View ArticleHighlight on New Jersey: OMNIA plan tiers and fears
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is trying to change the commercial health care market in New Jersey with a product called the OMNIA Health Plan. With a tiered provider network model,...
View ArticleHighlight on Illinois: Exchange rates rise in the Land of Lincoln
Illinois residents purchasing individual health insurance plans through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (ACA) (P.L. 111-148) could pay rate increases in 2017 as high as 55 percent, according...
View ArticleHighlight on Maine: Able-bodied MaineCare recipients could be subject to more...
“Able-bodied adults” would be subject to work/education requirements and a lifetime limit of five years under changes Mary Mayhew, director of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services,...
View ArticleExpiration of federal funding threatens state CHIP programs
In light of the fact that federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expired on September 30, 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analyzed the impact upon states and...
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