State Health and Medicaid Reform

• Kaiser: Medicaid & CHIP State Health Data
• Arizona Court Rescinds Injunction Against State Cuts to DD and Remands Case to Superior Court for Further Proceedings (April 30, 2009)
• CMS Delays Rule on State Flexibility for Medicaid Benefit Packages and Reopens Comment Period (April 3, 2009)
• Families USA: State Health Beat – A Resource for State Health Care News
• Kaiser: FY 2009 State Medicaid Cost Containment Actions Taken To Date (March 2009)
• Kaiser: FY 2007 State Positive Medicaid Policy Taken to Date (March 2009)
• Clarion Ledger: Mississippi Lawmakers Agree Not to Hike Hospital Provider Tax Given FMAP Increase (March 6, 2009)
• Arizona Providers Propose Findings and Preliminary Injunction Against 10% Cuts (March 2009)
• Kaiser: Missouri's 2005 Medicaid Cuts: How Did They Affect Enrollees and Providers? (February 18, 2009)
• Stateline: Medicaid Programs Feel Weight of Recession (February 6, 2009)
• Providence Journal: Rhode Island General Assembly Allows Global Medicaid Waiver to Go into Effect (January 15, 2009)
• IARF's Draft Resolution Prepared for the Illinois House of Representatives Regarding Additional FMAP and Allocation of Funding (January, 2009)
• Providence Journal: Rhode Island Legislature Will Not Move to Block Medicaid Global Waiver (January 15, 2009)
• Kaiser: The Role of Medicaid in State Economies (January 9, 2009)
• Kaiser: Rising Unemployment, Medicaid and the Uninsured (January 9, 2009)
• Kaiser: A Mid-FY 2009 Update on State Medicaid Issues in a Recession (January 9, 2009)
• Stateline: State of the States 2009: A Report on State Policy (January, 2009)
• Chattanooga Times: Tennessee May Drop Thousands from Medicaid Program Including Individuals with Disabilities (January 9, 2009)
• Kaiser: State Fiscal Conditions and Medicaid (January 8, 2009)
• Star-Ledger: New Jersey Legislators Propose Closing Five State Institutions (January 8, 2009)
• Dallas News: Texas Continues Outsourcing of Managed Care Despite Complaints (January 4, 2009)
• Indianapolis Star: Indiana State Health Plan May Hit Enrollment Cap (December 29, 2008)
• Washington Post: States Cut Medicaid Coverage Further (December 26, 2008)
• AP: New York Governor Wants Medicaid Expanded to More People (December 25, 2008)
• Houston Chronicle: Medicaid Coverage Extended for 34,000 Kids (December 23, 2008)
• RI Medicaid Trade-off Would Cut Nursing Home Services (December 20, 2008)
• Times Picayune: Louisiana’s Medicaid Revamp Clears Legislature (December 20, 2008)
• CBPP: Louisiana's Medicaid Waver Proposal- Is it the Right Fit for Louisiana? (December 17, 2008)
• MA Announces More Community Living Options For People With Developmental Disabilities (December 12, 2008)
• Providence Journal: RI Medicaid Accord Seen Near (December 9, 2008)
• CMS Final Rule Allowing States to Create Alternative Benefit Packages for Certain Medicaid Populations, Implementing Provisions of the DRA (December 3, 2008)
• StateLine: States Ask Feds for Help with Medicaid, SCHIP (November 26, 2008)
• Kaiser: Vermont's 'Choices for Care' Medicaid Long-Term Services Waiver: Progress and Challenges (November 17, 2008)
• St. Louis Dispatch: Illinois Settles Suit Over Housing for People With Disabilities (November 13, 2008)
• News-Leader: Health Care Providers in Missouri Blast New Mo-HealthNet Managed Care Program (November 11, 2008)
• The Advocate: Time is Running Out for Approval of Louisiana Medicaid Overhaul Plan (November 10, 2008)
• Pioneer Press: CMS Approves Minnesota Waiver to Continue SCHIP Coverage for Some Parents (November 7, 2008)
• Steamboat Today: Colorado Voters Reject Tax to Fund Supports for People with Disabilities (November 5, 2008)
• Kaiser: State-by-State Health, Health Care and Medicaid Facts (November 2008)
• Kaiser: Medicaid Cost Containment Actions Taken by States FY08 (November 2008)
• Kaiser: State Fiscal Conditions and Medicaid Fact Sheet (November, 2008)

• 31 States Sign Petition Seeking New Reimbursement Policy for Medicare and Medicaid Disability Coverage (October 31, 2008)

• USA Today: Economic Troubles Force States to Cut Medicaid (October 29, 2008)

• WV Medicaid Reforms Hardest on Children (October 27, 2008)

• AP: RI Medicaid Overhaul May Lower Elderly Services (October 27, 2008)

• Florida Medicaid Reform

  • Georgetown Univ.: Florida's Experience with Medicaid Reform: What Has Been Learned in the First Two Years? (October 27, 2008)

  • Kaiser: Florida Medicaid Reform Waiver: Early Findings and Current Status (October 27, 2008)

  • Florida Health News: AHCA Seeks Expansion of 'Medicaid Reform' to 20 counties (October 27, 2008)

  • Florida Health News: Doctors in Medicaid Reform Cite Roadblocks to Care (October 27, 2008)

• Rhode Island Medicaid Global Waiver (August 7, 2008)

  • Providence Journal: Medicaid waiver plan puts neediest at risk (August 7, 2008)

• FamiliesUSA Releases Individual State Data on Anticipated Losses Due to Medicaid Regs: IL, MI, NY, TX, UT, ME, LA, FL, MO, MN, CA, AK, KY, NC, CO, PA, OR, CT (May 6, 2008)

• Kaiser Report: Tight State Budgets Will Cause Medicaid and SCHIP Fiscal Crisis (April 28, 2008)
• NJ Protection and Advocacy Sues State Over Waiting List (April 17, 2008)
• 20 States (up from 17) have made or proposed budget cuts that threaten vital services (April 16, 2008)

• FamiliesUSA Reports on Link Between Lack of Health Insurance and Mortality in Multiple States: AR, IA, MI, MO, NV, NH, OH, OR, PA, VA, WV (March 26, 2008)

• ANCOR Maine Association and other providers protest Medicaid and other human service cuts.   

  Thank you to Bonnie Jean Brooks at OHI for providing ANCOR with updates from your state. Bonnie, and other Mainers joined in protest Wednesday as part of the Maine Can Do Better Coalition, March 12, 2008 to protest cuts in services to people with disabilities and the elderly.  ANCOR President Peter Kowalski at John F. Murphy Homes, Inc. testified before a packed Appropriations Committee on the impact of some of the proposed cuts. (March 21, 2008)

• Commonwealth Fund: States in Action: A Bimonthly Look at Innovations in Health Policy (March 10, 2008)
• MECEP Newsroom: Mainers Need More Than 'Average' Medicaid (March, 10, 2008)
• CDC: Disability and Health State Chartbook – 2006 (November 2007)