Tag: medicaid
Medicaid provides more access to health coverage for rural communities
A larger share of children in small towns and rural areas of Virginia rely on Medicaid to protect them from rising health care costs.
Study: Michigan heart surgery outcomes improved after Medicaid expansion
Expanding Medicaid coverage is associated with better outcomes for heart surgery patients, according to a study led by UVA School of Medicine researchers.
Virginia: For lovers, background checks and medical marijuana
Virginia voters like their guns, but they also like background checks for gun buyers, in addition to medical marijuana and Medicaid.
Angela Lynn response to Medicaid expansion failure
The General Assembly halted Gov. McAuliffe’s attempt to expand Medicaid across Virginia earlier this week.
Virginia House GOP blocks Medicaid expansion – again
Virginia House Republicans today unanimously voted to block Medicaid expansion – effectively denying health care to 400,000 Virginians.
Virginia in a box on Medicaid, Affordable Care Act
Be careful what you wish for, because Virginia Republicans got theirs, and seem to want to give it back.
Del. Landes responds to McAuliffe call for Medicaid expansion
Del. R. Steven Landes, R-Weyers Cave, expressed disappointment at Governor McAuliffe’s inclusion of language for Medicaid expansion.
JLARC report highlights broken Medicaid system
A Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission report released Monday highlighted the inefficiencies of Virginia’s Medicaid program.
Virginia Medicaid forecast grows by nearly $300 million
The official forecast for Virginia Medicaid, long-term care and mental health services expenditures through fiscal year 2018 is up nearly $300 million.
Zika news: Insect repellant now available to Medicaid members
The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services will cover insect repellent for Medicaid members under the pharmacy benefit with a prescription.
Sanders digs at Clinton on healthcare: Flip-flop?
Hillary Clinton is going after Bernie Sanders now that the upstart has emerged as the leader in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Podcast: AFP editor Chris Graham talks Riverheads, Medicaid expansion on WREL
Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham joins Jim Bresnahan on WREL-1450 in Lexington to talk local Virginia news and politics.
Ken Plum: Medicaid in perspective
A recent newspaper headline proclaimed that “Audit finds waste, inefficiencies in Virginia’s Medicaid program.” As often is the case, the real story is beyond the headline.
2016-2018 Medicaid forecast grows by nearly $1 billion
The official consensus forecast for Virginia Medicaid, long-term care and mental health services expenditures through fiscal year 2018 is up nearly $1 billion from the previous biennium, according to a report from the Department of Planning and Budget delivered to the General Assembly money committee chairs and presented at the House Appropriationns Committee Annual Retreat.
Tim Kaine urges states to expand Medicaid
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, Sherrod Brown and 29 of their Senate colleagues are urging the 19 states that have not yet decided to expand Medicaid to do so in order to give more than four million additional Americans access to affordable, comprehensive health care.
Study: Most Medicaid beneficiaries receive care consistent with patient-centered medical home model
The majority of Medicaid beneficiaries feel that the medical care they receive is patient-centered, accessible and well-coordinated between primary care providers and specialists, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University-led study.
Creigh Deeds: Budget deliberations begin in General Assembly
The 2015 Session of the General Assembly is hurdling toward adjournment. The word around here is that we may complete our work earlier than the scheduled February 28 adjournment.
Senate Republicans vote down measure to close healthcare coverage gap
In a near-party-line vote of 22-15, the Senate today approved budget amendment 301 #11s striking language from Gov. McAuliffe’s introduced budget that would have closed the health insurance coverage gap, enabling up to 400,000 Virginians — most from working families — to access quality, affordable healthcare.
Virginia Organizing: House GOP fails to address Medicaid gap in budget
Virginia Organizing Chairperson Sandra A. Cook issued the following statement in response to the General Assembly’s failure to include Medicaid expansion in the state budget.
Letter: Stewardship of public healthcare funds
Sean Connaughton, President and CEO of the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, states that the Commonwealth “must no longer ignore the growing fiscal challenges facing this dynamic and critical industry.”
Democrat letter details impact of Medicaid expansion in Virginia
The House Democratic Caucus delivered letters to members of the House of Delegates that break down how many Virginians in each House district would benefit from the acceptance of over $1 billion of federal Medicaid expansion funds.
Planned Parenthood applauds Governor’s Medicaid announcement
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia praised the announcement by Governor McAuliffe to include funding for Medicaid expansion in his budget as demonstrating his commitment to the 400,000 hardworking Virginians in need of affordable healthcare.
Howell congratulates Virginia’s national award-winning Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) on Tuesday congratulated Virginia’s national award-winning Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
Sam Rasoul: General Assembly update
The General Assembly adjourned on Saturday, March 8th. The state budget, however, remains to be finalized.
Mark Obenshain: Medicaid expansion by any other name
Medicaid expansion is back, only now it goes by another name. With entrenched positions established on Medicaid expansion, some legislators are floating an alternative plan involving premium assistance run through the new federally-facilitated exchange, a plan termed “Marketplace Virginia.” It would probably help to unpack a bit.
Kirk Cox: Medicaid expansion a ‘bad choice’ for Virginia
Medicaid expansion was a pressing issue last year and it’s an even more consequential issue this year. My office has received several inquiries from constituents on the status of Medicaid expansion in Virginia and where I stand on the issue.
Medicaid expansion and Virginia’s job gap
Virginia Organizing released on Wednesday a report authored by the Alliance for a Just Society detailing the living wage “job gap” in Virginia and the case for Medicaid expansion in Virginia. This is the 15th year the report has been produced.
Paul Ryan: Medicaid expansion is ‘empty promise’
The Ken Cuccinelli gubernatorial campaign used failed 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan to poke holes in Terry McAuliffe’s push to expand Medicaid coverage in Virginia.
Virginia approved to begin offering coordinated healthcare for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees
Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced that Virginia has been approved to implement a new healthcare initiative, the Medicare-Medicaid Enrollee (dual eligible) Financial Alignment Demonstration, aimed at coordinating care for more than 78,000 Virginians currently enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.
McDonnell: Virginia not expanding Medicaid
Gov. Bob McDonnell sent the following letter this afternoon to United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius detailing and explaining recent legislative actions in the Commonwealth regarding the Medicaid program.
House passes Medicaid expansion
The House of Delegates and State Senate both voted Saturday to pass a state budget bill with language that will form a 10-person commission to review and examine health care reforms before allowing Virginia to proceed with full Medicaid expansion.
McDonnell outlines opposition to Medicaid expansion
Gov. Bob McDonnell sent a letter on Wednesday to State Sen. Walter Stosch and Del. Lacey Putney outlining his firm opposition to any expansion of Medicaid absent sweeping reforms of the program at both the state and federal levels.
Victory, defeat for Medicaid expansion in General Assembly
The House of Delegates voted 74-22 on Thursday to pass an amended state budget that fails to expand Medicaid, while the State Senate in a separate 36-4 vote approved an amendment to the budget that expands Medicaid to more than 400,000 poor Virginians.
Committees vote to block Medicaid expansion
Two General Assembly committees voted on Sunday to pass budget bills that may make it harder to expand Medicaid coverage to more than 300,000 Virginia families.
Bolling backs proposed expansion of Virginia Medicaid program
Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling issued a comprehensive letter to legislative leaders outlining his support for moving forward with the proposed expansion of Virginia’s Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act, subject to the ability of the Commonwealth to negotiate acceptable waivers from the federal government to effectively reform Medicaid.
Rev. Jennifer Butler and Gordon Whitman: The moral case for preserving the safety net
As cracks form among CEOs and Republican Members of Congress over their hardline anti-tax position in the fiscal showdown, religious leaders from across the ideological spectrum have been united in supporting new revenue over additional spending cuts. And they’re speaking for their people. A strong majority of religious Americans favor letting the Bush tax cuts for the richest two percent of Americans expire. Even reliably conservative groups, such as white evangelical Protestants, are evenly divided on the issue.
Virginia Organizing: Why ignore over 400K Virginians?
Gov. Bob McDonnell presented his 2012-2014 biennium budget amendments to the Virginia General Assembly on Monday. One of the amendments the governor has proposed is removing the federal funding for Medicaid expansion that was previously included in the 2012-2014 budget passed by the General Assembly last year.
Report: Romney budget would cut Virginia Medicaid spending $52.2B
A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the House Budget Plan that was passed in 2012 that closely resembles Romney’s endorsed plan found that repealing the Affordable Care Act and converting Medicaid into a dangerous block grant would cut Virginia’s Medicaid spending by $52.2 billion between 2013 and 2022 – a whopping 22 percent of the current Medicaid spending.
Medicaid incentives encourage healthy habits
The Waynesboro Family YMCA is partnering with Virginia Premier Health Plan Inc. encouraging Medicaid recipients to adopt and maintain healthy living habits. A federal grant Program approved in the Affordable Care Act, under the Obama administration, promotes incentives for medicaid recipients who make an effort to control or lose weight, keep blood pressure and cholesterol […]
Anna Liebenow: Making the case that Medicaid works
You never know what obstacles life is going to put in front of you. When I was 25, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Before I turned 30, I was using a wheelchair. When you have a disability, it takes a fair amount of creativity to make life work. Like millions of other Americans with […]
