U.S. HHS Secretary asks Arkansas to re-enroll Medicaid-eligible children who lost coverage
- 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 […]
Read MoreKatie Britt, Marsha Blackburn, and Senate colleagues introduce bill to combat child recycling | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
- Google-News-Wire
- November 21, 2023
- Donald Trump
- Katie Britt
- Marsha Blackburn
- Xavier Becerra
Photo Credit: Katie Britt U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) recently joined Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) and 16 of their Senate Republican colleagues in introducing the Preventing the Recycling of Immigrants is Necessary for Trafficking Suspension (PRINTS) Act. This legislation is aimed at combatting human trafficking and child recycling by giving U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) the authority to fingerprint non-citizens […]
Read MoreBiden administration urges Arkansas, others to slow down on dropping people from Medicaid
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- June 12, 2023
- Allie Gardner
- Andrew DeMillo
- arkansas
- Biden
- centers for medicare & medicaid services
- Child Poverty
- Federal assistance in the United States
- florida
- Health_Medical_Pharma
- Healthcare reform in the United States
- idaho
- Medi-Cal
- medicaid
- Medicaid Coverage Gap
- Medicaid Managed Care
- medicare
- Oklahoma
- Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- social issues
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
- United States
- Xavier Becerra
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday urged states to slow down their purge of Medicaid rolls, citing concerns that large numbers of lower-income people are losing health care coverage due to administrative reasons. The nation’s Medicaid rolls swelled during the coronavirus pandemic as states were prohibited from ending people’s coverage. But […]
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