Health policy action in the states may depend as much on conflict or collaboration within each political party as on consensus between the parties.
Category: Modern Healthcare
Catholic Health Initiatives to sell Arkansas insurance plan to Centene
Years after it first announced it wanted to exit the insurance business, Catholic Health Initiatives is selling its Arkansas insurance plan QualChoice to insurer Centene Corp.
Ascension Texas to reopen shuttered Little River facilities
Ascension Texas announced Friday it has hired physicians who were formerly employed by Little River Healthcare and purchased the assets of practices that were affiliated with the bankrupt provider. Ascension plans to reopen the facilities Jan. 8.
Mayhew leaves CMS, heads to Florida’s health department
Maine’s former health official Mary Mayhew, who was tapped to helm Medicaid at the CMS, is leaving the agency for Florida’s health department under GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.
December saw the most new healthcare hires in decades
Healthcare added 50,200 new jobs in December, up 56% from November and marking the most hires in one month since at least 1990. Three-quarters of new hires were in the ambulatory sector.
Funding cutoff looms for model mental health clinics
Mental health leaders in eight states are worried about losing federal funding for a Medicaid demonstration that enables them to offer a broad array of services for people with serious mental illness and substance use disorders.
Coverage denied: Medicaid patients suffer as layers of private companies profit
Increasingly, Medicaid plans outsource the work of managing patients’ health and medical treatment to subcontractors. These firms can be powerful gatekeepers. They run physician groups, bear responsibility for forming doctor networks and judge…
New Maine governor orders Medicaid expansion
New Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signed an executive order on her first day in office to implement Maine’s Medicaid expansion, which was overwhelmingly approved by the state’s voters in 2017.
Healthcare.gov enrollment down from 2018 as exchanges fail to attract new customers
A little more than 8.4 million people selected or were automatically enrolled in a health plan during the HealthCare.gov open enrollment period that ended Dec. 15.
AHA data show hospitals’ outpatient revenue nearing inpatient
The American Hospital Association’s 2019 Hospital Statistics report shows U.S. hospitals’ outpatient revenue continues to inch closer to inpatient revenue, and profit continues to climb.
