Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). In states that have not expanded Medicaid, however, many postpartum women lose coverage.

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Verisys

MARCH 24, 2022

Healthcare facilities receive billions of dollars in federal and state funding through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and other programs. A 2017 report showed several of the largest penalties have been imposed on small- to medium-sized healthcare organizations, including United Medical Instruments Inc.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

million people in 2017. In addition, people living in states that failed to expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act provisions were also at greater risk of inadequate coverage. In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 By September 2020, about 36 million people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

The Commonwealth Fund’s Issue Brief published October 2017 asks, “How Well Does Insurance Coverage Protect Consumers from Health Care Costs?” That’s more per capita spending than for obesity, and nearly equal to Medicaid spending. ” The answer: not well. The post Guns, Jobs, or Health Care?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

“Let’s get this thing f-ing done,” Martha McSally passionately asserted on May 4, 2017. In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

adults, age 19 to 64, by phone in November and December 2017. The same holds for insurance status, whether commercially insured by an employer or enrolled in Medicaid, Medicare, through a health insurance marketplace, or uninsured. The report is aptly titled, Americans’ Views on Health Insurance at the End of a Turbulent Year.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . Ask yourself why proponents of ‘Medicare for All’ are advocating such a radical reform of health care just five years after the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare. It is certainly not because the ACA has worked.

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CMS.gov

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. After the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) regulations took effect, we have witnessed a serious deterioration of the individual market across the country because of skyrocketing costs and the withdrawal of insurance plans. keya.joy-bush@…. Mon, 10/22/2018 - 16:57. Seema Verma.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2018

The 50 ways to reform prescription drug pricing include: Increasing competition via promoting innovation and competition and developing proposals to drop Medicaid and ACA programs from raising drug prices in the private market.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 13, 2024

To understand it, we need to break down the protections put in place by the ACA, and those that exist separately. Some basic preexisting condition protections exist independent of the ACA. Biden’s May ad focuses on how many people would be vulnerable if protections for people with preexisting conditions were lost.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

And as of right now, CMS [the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] or Medicare is not going to be covering it at all because right now the drug only has what’s known as an accelerated approval. They can take some dollars out of Medicaid, you know, the largest expansion of which is part of ACA. Rovner: Yeah.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I also want to point out that neither Republicans nor Biden have yet said that they consider Medicaid in that same untouchable category. It was before the election — suggesting that all federal programs be sunsetted every five years and then have to be reauthorized, which would include Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.

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