Dozens of healthcare providers and organizations urged the federal government Wednesday to grant Arkansas officials’ request for two years to come up with a new Medicaid expansion model. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services verbally denied a five-year extension of the Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me, or ARHOME. The Department of Human […]
MISSOULA, Mont. — Tywon Pugh has seizures that make it hard to find and keep a job. “They called me a ‘liability to the job site,’” Pugh said, recalling the words of his manager when a seizure cost him his last job at a fast-food restaurant in this western Montana city. When the 46-year-old lost […]
Arkansas officials asked the federal government Wednesday to allow the state’s hybrid Medicaid expansion to continue through the end of 2028 after the Trump administration denied its request to renew the program providing health coverage to more than 200,000 people. Last week, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services verbally rejected Arkansas’ request to […]
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 […]
It would be easy to blame Republicans — especially the present White House occupant — for the steady atrophying of healthcare that’s readily accessible to Virginians in rural areas. You wouldn’t be wrong. You wouldn’t be totally right either. Policies put in place during President Donald Trump’s second term contribute substantially to the declining availability […]
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 […]
