Amy Lotven
Senior Editor at Inside Health Policy
LA-based health care reporter with Mid-western roots and split ends. Oft befuddled, never bored.
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1 week ago |
insidehealthpolicy.com | Dorothy Mills-Gregg |Amy Lotven
Stakeholders are calling for Congress to pass reforms following Medicare trustees’ announcement Wednesday (June 18) that the fund will now become insolvent three years earlier than previous predictions and that costs are outpacing Medicare physician pay.
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insidehealthpolicy.com | Dorothy Mills-Gregg |Amy Lotven |Sigi Ris
States that have expanded Medicaid would have their allowable use of provider taxes phased down to 3.5% by 2031 under the Senate Finance Committee’s reconciliation bill released Monday (June 16) along with a 10% phase down of state directed payments each year until they meet Medicare rates -- imposing deeper Medicaid cuts than the House-passed bill, drawing protests from hospital groups and a key swing vote senator Monday night.
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2 weeks ago |
insidehealthpolicy.com | Amy Lotven
Sources who had hoped to hear more details from the Senate Finance Committee on its changes to the House-passed Medicaid provision are now expecting language on Monday (June 16), and one source says GOP lawmakers are homing in on tweaks to the cost-sharing mandate and may push implementation of Medicaid work requirements out a year.
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2 weeks ago |
insidehealthpolicy.com | Amy Lotven
Medicaid expansion has been a critical tool in fighting lung cancer, helping millions of Americans, including the elderly, those who are newly diagnosed with cancer and those who take care of family with lung disease to access affordable health coverage, American Lung Association CEO Harold Wimmer says in an a letter to Senate leadership that underscores the grave threat to Medicaid -- and to lung health -- posed by the House-passed reconciliation bill.
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2 weeks ago |
insidehealthpolicy.com | Amy Lotven
Senate Democrats are sharing with the White House and Republican leaders new data they received from the Sheps Center that identifies more than 300 rural hospitals across the country that are already facing steep financial strains and would be particularly at risk of closure or service reductions if the House-passed reconciliation bill is enacted.
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I’m sure others have said this but the bill explicitly bars people who don’t meet the work requirements from getting ACA tax credits..so gettin exchange coverage highly unlikely
Mehmet Oz on people who don't satisfy work requirements for Medicaid: "We're gonna ask you to go on and do something else, like go on the exchanges, or get a job and get commercial insurance, but we're not gonna continue to pay for Medicaid for those audiences." https://t.co/aHPq5bFL5X
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