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medicaid
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Despite reform efforts, California’s Medicaid dental program draws renewed criticism
A California watchdog commission’s recently released report offers a scathing assessment of Denti-Cal – the state’s historically troubled Medicaid dental…
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Panel will assess continued growing pains of Health Policy in the states #AHCJ16
For several years now, I’ve moderated an AHCJ conference panel on Health Policy in the states and will do it…
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Colorado clinics serving Medicaid patients are adding dental services
What if you could get your dental and medical care in the very same place? A growing number of Colorado…
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A look at those still falling through the cracks in ACA coverage
The Affordable Care Act has clearly covered millions of people, many of them previously uninsured. But millions are still left…
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How one longtime beat reporter is keeping the Medicaid story fresh
Huffington Post health care reporter Jeffrey Young has written about Medicaid expansion. And written more about Medicaid expansion. And written…
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How the ACA may be helping to close the ‘race gap’
Chris Flavelle of Bloomberg View points out an unheralded achievement of the Affordable Care Act: It’s narrowing the race gap…
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Time to take a look at local efforts to tackle health, poverty
Perhaps 2016 will be the year of the gap – tackling the issue of the working poor who fall between…
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States vary widely at providing better dental care to Medicaid adults
States across the country have shown progress in getting more Medicaid-eligible children into dental chairs in recent years. Meanwhile, poor…
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Will jobs beat ideology to spur Medicaid expansion in the South?
We’ve written extensively about Medicaid expansion and the impact on hospitals that have many low-income uninsured patients that would be…
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Finding fresh ways to report on Medicaid, changes in health care system
The Washington, D.C., chapter of AHCJ held an event about Medicaid in late October with Matt Salo, who leads the…