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Trump Team’s Use of Arcane Budget Rule Threatens Medicaid Coverage

  • Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News

About 200,000 low-income Arkansans could see major changes to their health coverage next year after the Trump administration recently informed state officials it will not renew a key Medicaid agreement with the federal government. The decision by federal officials, citing authority granted under President Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending law, suggests the GOP-led state’s predicament could […]

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Arkansas healthcare providers alarmed by potential end of state’s Medicaid expansion

  • Andrew DeMillo

The Trump administration’s decision not to renew Arkansas’ hybrid Medicaid expansion is alarming medical providers and experts who say the loss of insurance for thousands would be devastating and would damage a state healthcare system already facing serious strains. The disclosure Friday by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office has created uncertainty for a first-in-the-nation program […]

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Va. hospitals predict $31B reduction in state’s Medicaid funding if proposed CMS rule passes 

  • Charlotte Rene Woods

A proposed federal rule stemming from the reconciliation bill Congress passed last summer includes additional policy changes that would reduce Medicaid payments to healthcare facilities, a step hospital chains warn exceeds the provision Congress approved and President Donald Trump signed.  Public comment closed this week on a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare and […]