Thousands Waiting For Medicaid Coverage Are Stuck In Limbo
State Medicaid programs have not received data on many applicants because of healthcare.gov's software problems.
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State Medicaid programs have not received data on many applicants because of healthcare.gov's software problems.
"Churning" may cause gaps in coverage and require switching doctors and hospitals.
With the health law bringing newly insured consumers as of Jan. 1, experts wonder whether some will have trouble gaining access to timely treatment.
In Los Angeles, there's a concerted effort to enroll the homeless into Medicaid, as the federal-state health insurance program opens for the first time to all poor adults.
How valuable people find their new health coverage will help shape public opinion of the law going forward.
The new analysis is part of the government's effort to improve the quality of care.
Consumers should not assume that facilities provide better care because they charge more, experts say.
The most successful exchanges kept things simple, amply tested systems
Many people with HIV live below the poverty line and therefore won't qualify for Obamacare subsidies to buy private insurance, or for Medicaid since Texas officials opted against expanding that program under the law.
In Kansas, families are worried about three for-profit insurers taking charge of providing all home- and community-based services for 8,500 developmentally disabled people beginning Jan. 1.
The Department of Justice estimates former inmates and detainees will comprise about 35 percent of the people who will qualify for Medicaid coverage in the states expanding their programs.
Officials say publicity for the Affordable Care Act and its requirement that most people get insurance will attract tens of thousands of people who are currently eligible for Medicaid but have not enrolled.
Anyone who is "lawfully present" in the United States may qualify for premium tax credits to help pay for health insurance.
As many as 400,000 Pennsylvanians, most of them low-wage workers, will go without coverage next year because Pennsylvania officials have not opted to take federal money available under the health law to expand Medicaid.
The Wisconsin governor, who may have presidential ambitions, wants to take people off BadgerCare and have them shop for subsidized coverage on healthcare.gov.
The state mistakenly told consumers in the "bridge to reform" program that they may have to switch doctors as they transition to Medicaid.
In Oregon, the online health marketplace isn't working for people looking to buy individual policies. But the state has been rapidly expanding Medicaid anyway. In Texas, insurance helpers may face state regulations that would make it even harder to assist people seeking coverage.
Some say Colorado Medicaid has hampered the state's private insurance enrollment efforts.
A Stateline survey indicates at least 1.5 million people have already signed up or have been pre-qualified for expanded Medicaid in the 19 states that have provided counts.
Only about half the states so far are planning to expand Medicaid coverage to thousands of low-income adults. Pennsylvania's Republican governor has a plan to do that, with caveats.
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