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Medicaid is the United States health program for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and resources. It is a means-tested program that is jointly funded by the states and federal government, and is managed by the states.

Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements costing taxpayers millions despite low enrollment

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's plan for a conservative alternative to Obamacare's Medicaid expansion has cost taxpayers at least $26 million so far, with more than 90% going toward administrative and consulting costs rather than medical care for low-income people.

20 Mar 2024

New analysis provides a comprehensive policy solution to bolster intensive care capacity in rural America

A new policy analysis led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute describes the intensive care crisis in rural America and provides a comprehensive policy solution to bolster intensive care capacity.

19 Mar 2024

Web-based decision aid helps pregnant women to make informed decisions about sterilization

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a simple, web-based decision aid called My Decision/Mi Decisión that helps empower pregnant individuals who are considering tubal sterilization to make informed decisions about their reproductive health, according to a new study published today in JAMA Network Open.

19 Mar 2024

Amid mental health staffing crunch, Medi-Cal patients help one another

Three people gathered in a classroom on a recent rainy afternoon listened intently as Derrick Cordero urged them to turn their negative feelings around.

19 Mar 2024

Covid and Medicare payments spark remote patient monitoring boom

Billy Abbott, a retired Army medic, wakes at 6 every morning, steps on the bathroom scale, and uses a cuff to take his blood pressure.

18 Mar 2024

Study offers insight into state Medicaid coverage for anti-obesity drugs

Mounting evidence suggests that FDA-approved weight loss medications, such as Wegovy, not only help patients lose weight but also protect against complications from obesity such as cardiovascular disease.

14 Mar 2024

Concerns grow over quality of care as investor groups buy not-for-profit nursing homes

Shelly Olson's mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At first, Olson said, her mother received great care at the facility, then owned by a not-for-profit organization, the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society.

13 Mar 2024

California voters are skeptical that more money is the answer to homelessness

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's expensive ballot-box attempt to tackle the mental health and addiction crisis on the state's streets is leading by a razor-thin margin, a week after the March 5 election.

12 Mar 2024

A new $16,000 postpartum depression drug is here. How will insurers handle it?

A much-awaited treatment for postpartum depression, zuranolone, hit the market in December, promising an accessible and fast-acting medication for a debilitating illness.

12 Mar 2024

An Arm and a Leg: The Medicare episode

Medicare may sound like an escape from the expensive world of U.S. health insurance, but it's more complicated, and expensive, than many realize.

11 Mar 2024

Why covid patients who could most benefit from paxlovid still aren’t getting it

Evangelical minister Eddie Hyatt believes in the healing power of prayer but "also the medical approach." So on a February evening a week before scheduled prostate surgery, he had his sore throat checked out at an emergency room near his home in Grapevine, Texas.

11 Mar 2024

The state of the union is … busy

President Joe Biden is working to lay out his health agenda for a second term, even as Congress races to finish its overdue spending bills for the fiscal year that began last October.

7 Mar 2024

New Medicare payment model challenges dialysis facilities serving patients with high social risk

A new study of more than 2,000 dialysis facilities randomized to a new Medicare payment model aimed to improve outcomes for patients with end-stage kidney disease has found that facilities that disproportionately serve populations with high social risk have lower use of home dialysis and transplant waitlisting and fewer kidney transplants.

6 Mar 2024

Study finds lack of preventative care for children with sickle cell anemia

Children with sickle cell anemia are vulnerable to serious infections and stroke, but many do not receive the preventative care that could help them stay healthier for longer, a Children's Hospital Los Angeles study found.

6 Mar 2024

Biden is right. The US generally pays double that of other countries for Rx drugs.

It's well documented that Americans pay high prices for health care. But do they pay double or more for prescriptions compared with the rest of the world? President Joe Biden said they did.

6 Mar 2024

SLU study examines the relationship between adversity, psychiatric and cognitive decline

Saint Louis University associate professor of health management and policy in the College for Public Health and Social Justice, SangNam Ahn, Ph.D., recently published a paper in Journal of Clinical Psychology that examines the relationship between childhood adversity, and psychiatric decline as well as adult adversity and psychiatric and cognitive decline.

1 Mar 2024

California hospitals, advocates seek stable funding to retain behavioral health navigators

Health providers and addiction experts warn the funding structure is unstable for a California initiative that steers patients with substance use disorder into long-term treatment after they are discharged from emergency rooms, which has already led some critical employees to leave their jobs.

1 Mar 2024

Is posttraumatic epilepsy associated with long-term dementia risk?

The associations between post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) and the risk of dementia.

29 Feb 2024

Social factors may be linked to access to stroke treatment

For people with stroke, social factors such as education, neighborhood and employment, may be linked to whether they receive treatment with clot-busting drugs according to a preliminary study released today, February 28, 2024, that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 76th Annual Meeting taking place April 13–18, 2024, in person in Denver and online.

28 Feb 2024

Exposure to neighborhood violence linked to unmet health needs and increased care utilization in children

A new collaborative study between Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia finds exposure to neighborhood violence among children was associated with unmet health needs and increased acute care utilization.

28 Feb 2024

Medicaid News and Research

Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements costing taxpayers millions despite low enrollment

New analysis provides a comprehensive policy solution to bolster intensive care capacity in rural America

Web-based decision aid helps pregnant women to make informed decisions about sterilization

Amid mental health staffing crunch, Medi-Cal patients help one another

Covid and Medicare payments spark remote patient monitoring boom

Study offers insight into state Medicaid coverage for anti-obesity drugs

Concerns grow over quality of care as investor groups buy not-for-profit nursing homes

California voters are skeptical that more money is the answer to homelessness

A new $16,000 postpartum depression drug is here. How will insurers handle it?

An Arm and a Leg: The Medicare episode

Why covid patients who could most benefit from paxlovid still aren’t getting it

The state of the union is … busy

New Medicare payment model challenges dialysis facilities serving patients with high social risk

Study finds lack of preventative care for children with sickle cell anemia

Biden is right. The US generally pays double that of other countries for Rx drugs.

SLU study examines the relationship between adversity, psychiatric and cognitive decline

California hospitals, advocates seek stable funding to retain behavioral health navigators

Is posttraumatic epilepsy associated with long-term dementia risk?

Social factors may be linked to access to stroke treatment

Exposure to neighborhood violence linked to unmet health needs and increased care utilization in children

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