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Implications of the ACA Medicaid Expansion: A Look at the Data and Evidence
More than four years after the implementation of the Medicaid expansion included in the Affordable Care Act, debate and controversy around the implications of the expansion continue. Despite a larg…
What Would Block Grants or Limits on Per Capita Spending Mean for Medicaid?
This issue brief explores how turning Medicaid into a block-grant program, or imposing spending caps, would likely affect eligibility, benefits, and states’ ability to meet their low-income residents’ health care needs.
What You Must Know About Medicaid and Long-Term Care
Medicaid pays for nursing-home care for those with little to no income and assets.
10 tips for working with MCOs to advance Medicaid program integrity
Have you turned to managed care organizations (MCOs) to reduce Medicaid costs and improve patient care? If so, you probably know how difficult it is to know for sure whether your MCOs are doing all…
Medicaid Planning Requires Understanding How Medicaid Recovery Works
Most people will need living assistance eventually, and Medicare does not pay for custodial care, which is the type of care you would receive in a nursing home or assisted living facility. Let our Florence Medicaid lawyers explain how Medicaid recovery works and how to be prepared.
Preplanning for Medicaid Benefits
As if day-to-day caregiving for your parents is not stressful enough, the financial obligations of skilled care will push you to your limits. Consider...
Why Fully Expanded Medicaid Matters
Are you currently healthy? Are you and your spouse able to work and provide for your family? Are your children healthy enough to focus and learn during the school day? Health is easily taken for gr…
How does the ACA Impact Providers’ Trust of Payers?
Provider trust of payers remains dismal within the healthcare industry. Research says there is a vital need for increased transparency and communication.
What happens to community hospitals if Medicaid isn't funded?
Who’s Benefiting from Medicaid Expansion?
We have a system that makes it entirely rational to dump tons of money into a health-care program that doesn’t improve health very much.
How employers can limit exposure to ACAs pay-or-play penalties
The Affordable Care Acts employer shared responsibility requires large employers to offer group health plan coverage or face the prospect of having to pay money to the government. As a result, more and more employers are considering these strategies to help reduce or eliminate their exposure to penalties.
Why Medicaid Expansion Is Good For Your Heart
“A growing body of evidence suggests that Medicaid expansion has had a number of benefits.”
Policymakers Cannot Deny What Medicaid Expansion Means to Survival
It is never easy to absorb unpleasant information. And when I was a policymaker, if someone told me that my decisions were going to cos...
Must-know tips for clinical quality measure reporting
Clinical quality measure (CQM) reporting demonstrates meaningful use in Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records (EHRs) incentive programs. Get information and recommendations on CQM usage for your practice.
Why is Medicaid reimbursement below sustainability?
When Medicare rates are already considered the “bottom line,” why is Medicaid reimbursement below sustainability?
5 cost-saving tactics for ACA compliance
Complying with the Affordable Care Acts employer shared responsibility rules could add up for employers. Here are five strategies to recommend to your clients today, according to consulting firm Mercer. [Photos: ThinkStock]
Clear Communication Needed About ACA Benefits Changes
In light of impending Affordable Care Act health benefits mandates, large employers should begin the process of educating employees on the details of changes in benefits now to avoid confusion...
Meaningful Use & the ACA: Driving Mobile Health Adoption
The US healthcare system is experiencing a major transformation, driven in large part by a combination the ACA and Meaningful Use.
Are We Still Shunning Medicaid Patients?
Data show that many primary care physicians are still not accepting Medicaid patients. How can we reverse this failure to serve the poor among us?
Modularity: How to plan for the future
Planning for the future for states and medicaid enterprise using modularity
