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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

Healthcare Law Blog

Medicaid and Medicare The Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Public Law 105–33, 111 Stat. The Medicaid and Medicare statutes also contain conscience provisions related to the performance of advanced directives, religious nonmedical healthcare providers and their patients.

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Reduced Co-Insurance for Screening Colonoscopies

Medisys Compliance

Section 4104 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) defined the term ‘preventive services’ to include ‘colorectal cancer screening tests’ and, as a result, it waives any coinsurance that would otherwise apply under Section 1833(a)(1) of the Social Security Act for screening colonoscopies. Background for Reduced Co-Insurance.

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CMS Begins Option to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

Healthcare Law Blog

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). In states that have not expanded Medicaid, however, many postpartum women lose coverage.

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CMS BLOG: Medicare for All? Just another name for a government-run, single payer system

CMS.gov

Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . percent from 2011-2016, from $17.6 Ask yourself why proponents of ‘Medicare for All’ are advocating such a radical reform of health care just five years after the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare.

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Vote As If Your Health Depended Upon It; Learning from Governor Kasich on Voting Day 2018

Health Populi

Governor Kasich has led the Buckeye State since 2011, and his second and final term ends in January 2019. The Governor expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in the State of Ohio, discussed in this insightful Washington Post article. “I When the Supreme Court made Medicaid expansion optional, Kasich didn’t hesitate.