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On Tuesday, July 20, Arkansas submitted to the federal government an application for a waiver that would allow the state to revamp its Medicaid expansion program under the name Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me, or ARHOME. Like the current program, ARHOME would use Medicaid dollars to provide private health insurance to low-income Arkansans through an innovative premium assistance model. In a recent piece published on the Health Affairs Blog, ACHI Health Policy Director Craig Wilson uses the ARHOME waiver application as a jumping-off point for an examination of issues surrounding the Medicaid âequal accessâ requirement.
State Medicaid programs have long struggled to offer reimbursement rates that are sufficient to provide beneficiary access that is similar to the general population living in the same area, even though federal law requires that access be equal. Wilson argues in his Health Affairs Blog post that the premium assistance model â which meets th
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