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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: April 18, 2022
As states prepare for the end of the COVID public health emergency, they are making plans to reevaluate each Medicaid enrollee’s eligibility. They ...
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: November 11, 2020
“Hospitals are very aware about generous commercial rates being replaced by lower Medicare rates.”
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: September 18, 2020
Industry observers say the drug importation proposal under review by the administration is squarely aimed at Florida – the most populous swing stat...
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: July 11, 2019
The plan aims to increase the number of patients getting dialysis at home and double the annual number of kidneys available for transplant.
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: June 7, 2019
“This bill removes an albatross from the neck of American business, puts more money in consumer products, and will boost our economy,” one CEO says...
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: May 15, 2019
The retail giant is believed to be the first to prod workers to use specific imaging providers based on diagnostic accuracy – not price.
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: November 29, 2018
After years of steady decline, the number of U.S. children without health insurance rose by 276,000 in 2017.
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: November 8, 2018
Despite some big wins, it wasn't a clean sweep for Medicaid in the Nov. 6, elections.
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: October 25, 2018
Medicaid covers about 20% of U.S. residents and accounts for nearly one-sixth of health care expenditures. Nearly half of enrollees are children.
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: July 3, 2018
The fallout from the federal court ruling June 29 that struck down the Medicaid work requirement in Kentucky was swift.
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: June 5, 2018
In a meeting with reporters, Ms. Verma refused to discuss the findings in any detail or comment on any individual states that performed poorly or e...
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: May 8, 2018
The Trump administration’s promise of unprecedented flexibility to states in running their Medicaid programs hit its limit on May 7.
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: February 23, 2018
“Demonstration programs have been used since the 1990s to advance policy agenda for whoever holds power in Washington and not designed to test an i...
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- Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Publish date: September 13, 2017
Both the overall number of uninsured and the percentage are record lows.
