Arkansas
Arkansas governor authorizes committee, strategic plan aimed at bolstering maternal health • Arkansas Advocate
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday announced a campaign aimed at improving maternal health in Arkansas. At a morning press conference, Sanders signed an executive order creating a committee, which includes some cabinet officials, that will formulate a “comprehensive statewide strategic health plan.” One of the goals of the plan will be to connect more […]
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Arkansas
U.S. HHS Secretary asks Arkansas to re-enroll Medicaid-eligible children who lost coverage
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Google-News-Wire
- December 19, 2023
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Arkansas department of human services
- arkansas medicaid
- ARKids
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- children
- COVID-19
- health care
- health coverage
- kristi putnam
- medicaid
- medicaid eligibility
- medicaid unwinding
- public health emergency
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- tanf
- u.s. department of health and human services
- Xavier Becerra
Arkansas’ removal of thousands of children from Medicaid coverage this year has raised concerns with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to a Monday letter from the department secretary to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. In Arkansas, 78,506 fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in September […]
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