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Wisconsin Medicaid Waiver Will Reduce Coverage, Create New Barriers to Care
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved Wisconsin’s Medicaid waiver proposal, which will significantly restrict Medicaid coverage for low-income adults in a number of significant ways.
For starters, Wisconsin is the first state allowed to take coverage away from people with incomes below the poverty line if they don’t pay $8 monthly premiums. Those with incomes...
Four Ways States Can Expand Access to Opioid Treatment Through Medicaid
Legislation to help address the opioid epidemic that Congress plans to consider in the coming days includes several provisions enhancing Medicaid’s role in providing comprehensive access to treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs). But states don’t need to wait for this legislation to expand access to opioid treatment through Medicaid. They can take four steps right now:
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New Studies Confirm Harm from Medicaid Work Policies
State policies taking Medicaid coverage away from people who don’t meet a work requirement represent “policy making gone astray, causing more harm than good,” two physicians write in a commentary accompanying two new studies in the September issue of JAMA Internal Medicine. The studies come shortly...
CMS Opens Door to State Restrictions on Medicaid Beneficiaries’ Access to Medications
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rightly rejected a Massachusetts proposal to restrict Medicaid beneficiaries’ access to prescription drugs last month, it opened the door to much more radical, harmful changes to Medicaid prescription drug coverage. Specifically, it suggested that states could submit proposals drastically limiting drug coverage provided they also...
House Bill Partially Repealing “IMD Exclusion” Would Do More Harm Than Good
The House will consider a bill today to partially repeal a longstanding policy — the Institutions for Mental Disease (IMD) exclusion — prohibiting the use of federal Medicaid funds for care of patients ages 21-64 receiving treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) in facilities with more than 16...
Excluding Qualified Family Planning Providers from Offering Care to Low-Income Women Will Restrict Access and Cause Harm
The Trump Administration has proposed a rule to exclude many qualified safety net family planning clinics from participating in the Title X family planning program, which would sharply reduce access to essential family planning and other health care services for low-income women and men: more than 18 million women (...
Revised Bill Partially Repealing Medicaid Exclusion for Institutional Substance Use Treatment Falls Far Short
The House Energy and Commerce Committee will consider a bill tomorrow to partially repeal a longstanding policy — known as the Institutions for Mental Disease (IMD) exclusion — prohibiting the use of federal Medicaid funds for care of patients ages 21-64 receiving treatment for substance use disorders...
Medicaid Work Requirement Would Harm Unemployed, Not Promote Work
CMS’ new guidance doesn’t provide a convincing rationale for the policy reversal, which could threaten Medicaid coverage for many adults and actually make it harder for some adults to succeed in the labor market due to their loss of health coverage.
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