States Are The Audience For White House Analysis About Medicaid Expansion
While the new report provides individual state statistics about the benefits of expansion, politics is likely to keep many of those states from accepting the option.
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While the new report provides individual state statistics about the benefits of expansion, politics is likely to keep many of those states from accepting the option.
The analysis by the Council of Economic Advisers finds that hospitals in states that have not expanded the program would have $4.5 billion less uncompensated care if they accepted the health law provision to offer coverage to more low-income residents. Also, federal officials release new figures about the growth in Medicaid and a related program for children.
House members sharply questioned expansion supporters yesterday, and the speaker, who opposes the effort to provide coverage to low-income residents, said proponents have not made sufficient inroads in his caucus to get the measure through.
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News outlets report on health issues from Connecticut, Colorado, Michigan, Texas, California, Rhode Island, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland and Louisiana.
Meanwhile, Texas lawmakers slow down their campaign to curb abortions, passing only one such measure in the 2015 session. In North Carolina, lawmakers passed an abortion bill mandating a 72-hour waiting period. The legislation will now go to the governor's desk.
A World Health Organization panel concludes that the evidence that screening helps women in their 40s is "limited" -- similar to recent findings by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Early sales of MannKind Corp.'s new insulin drug Afrezza, that is delivered through an inhalation device, are disappointing as patient adoption has been slow due to factors like doctor reluctance to prescribe and an FDA-mandated lung test. In other pharma news, a provision of the health law establishing a pathway for biosimilars may save patients as much as $800 a month in co-pays.
The Washington Post looks at how hospitals try to improve their reviews on Yelp and other websites. Meanwhile, USA Today reports on why big business supports telemedicine.
Lawmakers are mulling an overhaul of medical privacy rules at a time when health data is increasingly shared, reports CQ Healthbeat. Meanwhile, bipartisan bills on speeding Medicare appeals, patent trolls and approval of new antibiotics advance. A Senate bill would give greater independence to nurse practitioners working in the VA health system.
The Wall Street Journal digs into the trove of Medicare billing data just released by CMS and in a variety of stories reports on a California doctor's heavy billing for an unusual procedure, a "self-referral" loophole, a Florida oncology group that submitted high bills for a discredited cancer drug, and a Virginia lab that pays doctors per blood test submitted. A Bloomberg report focuses on the high rate of bacterial infection billed by hospitals to Medicare.
The measure, prompted by a cut in federal funding to hospitals that serve large numbers of poor and uninsured patients, would allow up to 800,000 people to gain coverage. The House and governor remain opposed.
With the Supreme Court set to rule later this month on a challenge that could invalidate health insurance subsidies for millions of people, conservative Republicans are hinting they might support a short-term extension as part of a contingency plan. Other stories look at how the justices might weigh the loss of insurance to so many people.
Both states are using the Obamacare federal marketplace and their actions are viewed as "contingency" plans that would shield residents from potential loss of insurance subsidies if the Supreme Court strikes them down in the upcoming King V. Burwell decision.
Under the health law, insurance companies are required to make public their plans for rate increases that exceed 10 percent. News outlets in New York, Montana, Minnesota and Missouri report on possible rate changes.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
News outlets report on health issues from West Virginia, D.C., Maryland, North Carolina, Connecticut, Florida, California, New Hampshire, Kansas, Indiana, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming and Pennsylvania.
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