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CMS Gives Arkansas, Iowa More Leeway in Medicaid Expansion Waivers
The Obama administration is continuing to compromise with Republican-led states that expand Medicaid.
The Obama administration is continuing to compromise with Republican-led states that expand Medicaid. Not only is CMS allowing Arkansas to impose cost-sharing for beneficiaries below poverty level, but Iowa has also been given permission to not offer nonemergency transportation to beneficiaries.
Patient advocates and some policy experts have criticized the cost-sharing provisions that are becoming increasingly popular in Medicaid waiver applications because previous experiments with such fees suggest fees of any size generally discourage low-income people from enrolling.
Read the story at Modern Healthcare: http://bit.ly/1BuRLz7
Performance of 2-Stage Health-Related Social Needs Screening Using Area-Level Measures
December 19th 2025Limiting health-related social needs screening to lower-income areas would reduce screening burdens; however, this study found a 2-stage screening approach based on geography to be suboptimal.
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