Kentucky Governor Mat Bevin submitted an updated waiver proposal to the federal government in an effort to curb public criticism of the state's proposed Medicaid expansion plan, according to the Lexington Hearld-Leader.
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Children needing coverage for around-the-clock medical attention may be placed on a waiting list, as North Carolina ceased adding children to a Medicaid waiver program Monday, The News & Observer reported.
On Monday, Emergency Medical Services and law enforcement in Cabell County, W.Va., responded to 26 heroin overdoses in the span of five hours. The spike in overdoses taxed EMS resources and extended wait times at local hospitals, according to WSAZ…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Frank Edelblut said Medicaid expansion locks individuals in poverty and deters healthy adults from seeking work, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.
Minnesota hospital psychiatric units are housing hundreds of psychiatric patients for extended periods of time due to a lack of places to transport them once stabilized, the StarTribune reported.
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CMS released data indicating per-enrollee medicals costs in the individual market remained almost unchanged between 2014 and 2015, suggesting a year-over-year improvement of the Affordable Care Act's individual risk pool.
In a recent press release, Equicare Health Inc., a leading provider of care coordination software, announced a partnership with The Samfund, a nonprofit organization that provides financial support for young adult cancer survivors.
In a recent press release, athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHN), a leading provider of network-enabled services and mobile applications for healthcare providers nationwide, announced that it is tracking the impact of the Zika virus across its nationwide network of 80,000 providers and has…
Texas legislators took Zika funding into their own hands Wednesday by authorizing the state's Medicaid program to pay for mosquito repellent for women, reports Herald Democrat.
A critical nationwide shortage of psychiatric beds is forcing many mentally ill patients with severe symptoms to be "boarded" in hospital emergency rooms and jails as they wait for an available bed, sometimes for weeks, according to The Pew Charitable…