Healthcare advocates are criticizing the Trump administration’s approval amid overwhelming opposition, a global pandemic, and as the number of uninsured Americans grows of Tennessee’s plan to overhaul funding of its Medicaid program, calling the decision “reckless” and “irresponsible.”
Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, called it “a radical waiver that puts Tennessee’s Medicaid beneficiaries at risk.”
BTW if I were going to pick a state to showcase a new way to run Medicaid I would not pick Tennessee. In 2018 TN led the nation in kicking kids off of Medicaid (see blog below) which contributed to a large ⬆️ in their uninsured rate from 2016 to 2019.https://t.co/hg32E7Xs6Whttps://t.co/giKtbMbgeS
Georgia is not reporting adequate Medicaid, PeachCare data
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Caption For the past two years, Georgia reported only a fraction of the information the federal Core Set requested. Finding information about how state insurance plans provide care to people with diabetes is also more difficult this year. Credit: Pexels/Stock photo
Nine years ago, Georgia reported ample data to the feds on the health care quality of its Medicaid and PeachCare programs.
In fact, a federal report at that time praised Georgia’s “proactive role in designing its data systems to support quality measurement.”
For seven more years, Georgia continued to be near the top of the data-reporting charts for what’s called the Core Set. It consistently submitted information about how its Medicaid program and its children’s health insurance, or CHIP program (known as PeachCare in Georgia), were delivering care.
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Hear KUAR s interview with the National Health Law Program s Leo Cuello about the Supreme Court hearing a challenge to Arkansas work requirement for some Medicaid recipients.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson outlines the work requirement for certain Arkansas Works Medicaid recipients at a press conference on March 6, 2017.
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An upcoming case going before the U.S. Supreme Court could permanently halt Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation work requirement for some Medicaid recipients.
The requirement mandates that people receiving health insurance through the state’s Medicaid expansion program, called Arkansas Works, report 80 hours of work per month to an online portal. By the time the requirement was put on hold in April 2019, roughly 18,000 Arkansans had lost coverage for failing to comply with the requirement.