My Parents' Medicaid Eligibility
Returning to the subject of Medicaid: after the previous post talking about general Medicare and Medicaid issues, ... they qualify for Medicaid, but not all of it. The spouse who goes into a nursing home can keep a small ... here's more on the specific case of how my parents might pay for a nursing home... please [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 14:17:00
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Welcome, President Obama - Fight for Reproductive Rights Continues
Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion as a woman’s right, will be 36 years old on Jan. 22 ... , including restrictions on abortion funding for Medicaid-eligible women and Medicare beneficiaries ... in Medicaid. These funding restrictions are the most detrimental of all attacks on safe, legal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 04:33:24
Annuities That Help You Qualify for Medicaid and Protect Your Assets
Long term health care costs remain high and growing. Because of this retirees with significant assets should plan for their potential Medicaid eligibility. A Medicaid qualified annuity can play a part in this planning when one spouse has to enter [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 17:26:50
Video: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Defends Stimulus Bill’s Inclusion of Millions of Dollars Designated to Fund Contraception While Obama Administration Claims it Wasn’t His Idea
From CNSNews.com: The Obama White House on Monday backed away from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support for increased federal funding of ... for contraception through Medicaid, allowing those not poor enough to be currently eligible for Medicaid to nonetheless qualify for the contraception aid. A program created during the Clinton [more...]
Date: 2009-01-27 07:07:46
Obama spokesman says birth control funding in emergency stimulus package was not Obama's idea...
See previous post to this one for much more for context and interest... ... expand federal funding for contraception through Medicaid, allowing those not poor enough to be currently eligible for Medicaid to nonetheless qualify for the contraception aid. A program created during [more...]
Date: 2009-01-27 12:01:00
Cavuto Rallies Against Family Planning Provision In Stimulus»
As Amanda Terkel points out over at ThinkProgress, conservatives have started complaining and mischaracterizing a provision of the stimulus bill that ... -income women who are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid.” According to the text of the provision ... to imagine how unwanted pregnancies help struggling families make ends meet and afford health insuranc [more...]
Date: 2009-01-26 22:06:51
Florida Medicaid, Antipsychotics And Small Children
At a time when growing use of atypical antipyschotics in children is under a microscope, ... , but only for those with autistic disorder. To be eligible for Medicaid reimbursement, a drug ... that they are being properly prescribed (look here). Despite such concerns, the state’s Agency for HealthCare [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 17:36:10
HEALTH: Baucus Plan Highlights Importance Bipartisanship and Cost of Inaction
This post also appears on the National Journal's Health Care Experts Blog. where you can also see what other health policy analysts have to say ... will become eligible for Medicaid or some kind of safety net insurance. This occurs just as states ... in the unemployment rate leads to roughly 1 million more Medicaid and SCHIP enrollees. Senator Baucus' [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 18:20:08
Lungren Says, “SCHIP Must Serve Poor Children First”
Washington, DC - Congressman Dan Lungren (R-CA) today voted against a Senate bill brought before the House of Representatives which would significantly alter the current State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Lungren ... estimates that one-half of the new enrollees under the expansion of SCHIP and Medicaid eligibility [more...]
Date: 2009-02-04 23:18:56
ThinkFast: February 24, 2009
President Obama will appoint “a full-time, high-level envoy” to Sudan to deal with the Darfur genocide, actor George Clooney said, ... taxpayers $4 in costs associated with unintended births to mothers eligible for Medicaid-funded ... some of the nation’s biggest banks, two of the biggest automakers and the biggest insurance company.” AIG “ [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 14:00:56
SCHIP bloat
George Freaking Will:By a vote of 289 to 139, with 40 Republicans joining the majority, the House, in the process of reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program, doubled the funding ... for families too affluent to be eligible for Medicaid but not affluent enough to afford health [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 15:26:00
A New Wind Blowing
by Mary Pitt12/22/08The whole country is agog with the news of the Madoff Ponzi scheme and the billions he scammed from big investors, ... the government social programs such as Medicare and Medicaid are administered by the accounting departments ... old, she was not initially eligible for Medicare and so became dependent on Medicaid for two years [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 09:54:00
GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS FOR THE UNINSURED ARE POORLY TARGETED, ILL-DESIGNED, NOT WORKING
One in four uninsured Americans eligible for Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) ... future health care needs. Scandlen also says people should be able to buy health insurance policies ... for Health Care Management (NIHCM). The researchers found that 12 million -- out of the estimated 47 [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 13:44:55
High Margin Revenue Cycle Strategies
In this deepening economic crisis, growth strategies may seem less important than defensive strategies and cost reduction ... Underpayments Medicaid Eligibility Noncontract Claims Motor Vehicle Accident and Workers' Compensation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-26 14:00:00
Entitlement Reform: Don't Count on it
Is entitlement reform really on the table in a "fiscally responsible" Obama White House? ... of another entitlement, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP: SCHIP's purpose ... as they subsidize health care for families too affluent to be eligible for Medicaid but not affluent [more...]
Date: 2009-01-26 14:37:00
NM Eligible for $95 Million+ in Medicaid Relief; Funds Available Starting Wednesday
President Barack Obama announced in a meeting with the nation’s Governors today that states will be able to access the first two quarters ... starting this Wednesday, February 25. FMAP funding helps pay for health care for the families hit hard ... rely on Medicaid for health care coverage and this funding could help 20 million more Americans [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 04:43:18
Raising 4.3 trillion US dollars: What Obama isn’t telling America about his “tax cuts”…
It all sounds so good…. 95% of Americans getting tax cuts ... -insurance subsidies, tax credits for tiny businesses, and expanded Medicaid eligibility would cost [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 07:01:48
Guttmacher Report Cites Effectiveness, Cost-Savings in Family Planning Programs
Public Release Date: 24-February-2009 Publicly funded family planning programs save the U.S ... -state Medicaid program. In addition, 27 states have expanded eligibility for family planning for low-income women who would not otherwise qualify for Medicaid. Rachel Benson Gold, a co-author [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 01:07:54
RIght wing bloviator tries to fan anti-stimulus backlash
"I think there's going to be a backlash," Charlie Sykes said on Tuesday, apropos of President Obama's economic recovery program ... for the children, the poor and the unemployed. From a handy CNN rundown of the stimulus package: Medicaid: $87 billion. Increase Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage so states do not have to cut eligibility [more...]
Date: 2009-01-29 00:37:31
THE "RATIONING PROBLEM" IN MEDICAID, MEDICARE
Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy says he is "looking forward to working with Barack Obama on health care ... and lowering the age of eligibility for Medicare. According to Goodman:What that means is putting ... problem in Medicaid; now we're beginning to see one in Medicare. Goodman backs what he says are two good [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 15:21:41
Health Insurance Assistance for the Unemployed
Unemployment is on the rise in a faulty economy. How many times have we heard this? Felt this? ... of Medicaid, $29 billion would subsidize private insurance and $11 billion would finance Medicaid ... insurance for their family. They apply for Medicare, but are turned away. They are not eligible [more...]
Date: 2009-01-28 18:38:19
Do not pray for easy lives
So said President Obama, quoting JFK, as he spoke yesterday on the passage of the economic stimulus bill ... they cannot change their eligibility requirements for the program; $24.7 billion for federal subsidies ... ), with $17 billion for investments and incentives through Medicare and Medicaid and $2 billion [more...]
Date: 2009-02-15 19:41:00
The Medicaid Challenge, Part II: Reimbursement & the Federal Government
Last week I looked at some of the major problems afflicting the Medicaid program, including low reimbursement rates for doctors, patients’ lack of access to care, a lower quality of available care, stringent eligibility requirements, and complicated enrollment procedures [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 21:11:53
Expanding Medicaid with stimulus money is the right medicine
If $4.3 billion of federal money falls into the hands of Missouri legislators, will they be smart enough to take full advantage of it? ... dropped eligibility so low in Missouri — to just 23 percent of poverty, or less than $4,000 a year ... in 2006 — after the Medicare cuts of 2005 — than in 2004. Hospitals recovered that money by raising [more...]
Date: 2009-02-19 03:01:22
Medicaid Expansion In West Virginia
Medicaid is to be extended in West Virginia. People with incomes up to 50 percent of the federal poverty level will benefit ... in the comprehensive health care overhaul. The 20 member coalition aims to improve nursing education, job satisfaction ... of the expansion and the number of adults that would be eligible. CMS would probably not be asked [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 09:28:07
Want your Medicaid? Newt Gingrich says you should thumbscan for it
Commentary: Another Medicaid bailout? 1.9.09 / Newt Gingrich & Jim Frogue / McClatchy-Tribune News Service For the third time this decade, ... for their Medicaid programs in 2003. Later that same year, Medicare Part D was signed into law and went ... drug costs to the federal government for their Medicare/Medicaid dual eligible populations [more...]
Date: 2009-02-12 19:29:21
CMS Hosts National E-Prescribing Conference
On October 7, 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ... Federal e-prescribing incentive payment program. The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) provides for physicians and other eligible professionals, who meet Federal [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 00:50:08
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