Spending Millions on the Health of Low-Income Mothers and Babies? medscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07) in reintroducing a comprehensive bill to improve maternal health outcomes, reverse the trend of rising maternal mortality rates, and close disparities that put Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and their kids at greater risk of adverse health outcomes. The
Maximizing Outcomes for Moms through Medicaid Improvement and Enhancement of Services (MOMMIES) Act would build upon recent advancements in Medicaid coverage for pregnant and postpartum people that Senator Baldwin helped secure in the recently-passed
Tennessee moves to defend Medicaid waiver from legal challenge reuters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reuters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The U.S. Secretary of Labor, state of California and a slew of healthcare groups are urging a federal appeals court to uphold a lower court's orders finding that a UnitedHealth Group Inc unit unreasonably denied mental health and substance abuse coverage and ordering it to reprocess 67,000 claims.
Settlement requires state to provide access to care for Medi-Cal applicants
FAIRFIELD Hundreds of thousands of Californians will soon have speedier access to health care.
That’s thanks to a settlement in a seven-year lawsuit that requires California’s Department of Health Care Services to allow eligible Medi-Cal applicants to receive health coverage right away, subject to later verification of their declared income, according to a Tuesday press release.
The decision came down Monday.
The lawsuit, filed in 2014, sought to end the state’s practice of leaving hundreds of thousands of eligible low-income applicants to wait for months without health care.