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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

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Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 million as of 2021. The MIEP, established in 1965, prohibits Medicaid from covering incarcerated individuals, despite any prior eligibility.

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Addressing Ghost Networks in Mental Health Care

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Considering these substantial consequences for patients’ access to mental health care, developing solutions to prevent ghost networks is critical. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 requires Medicaid plans to publish and update accurate and searchable provider directories.

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CVS Finds Differences in Mental and Behavioral Health Among Men Vs. Women in the Pandemic

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As the COVID-19 pandemic shifts to a more endemic phase — becoming part of peoples’ everyday life for months to come — impacts on peoples’ mental health will persist, according to new research from CVS Health in the company’s annual Health Care Insights Study. adults in March 2021.

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Health Provider News – October 14, 2022

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California medical group to pilot Google’s clinical software for outpatient care. Providers raise concerns over California’s value-based Medicaid reforms. Aspen Valley Hospital rolls out system of electronic health records. facility for homeless people seeking medical care. ’s Medicaid saga.

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Health Provider News

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on EHR upgrade New SSM Health children’s developmental center opening today Illinois Capitol bills would give more money to community health centers Illinois physician selected for year-long NASA Mars simulation HSHS St.

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Health Provider News

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‘Not what we were looking for,’ CEO says Data shows mental health, education declines for Hoosier kids Joint venture to build specialty hospital in Fort Wayne Bills would cut hospital services in Indiana not just reduce costs Ascension St. in Indiana aging-in-place work. nursing home Massachusetts hospitals spent $1.5B

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Health Provider News

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health-tech startup MemoryWell pivots, eyes new funding to roll out software for insurers Department of Veterans Affairs health system kicks off multiyear Greater Washington expansion Georgetown to open Southeast D.C.