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Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income in the United States, providing free health insurance to 85 million low-income and disabled people as of 2022; [3] in 2019, the program paid for half of all U.S. births. [4]
The Alabama Department of Public Health is the primary state health agency of the government of the U.S. state of Alabama. It provides a number of public health services to Alabama residents. [1] Chronically underfunded for decades, even by a health professional as governor (Bentley), it ranks near the bottom among states.
The study also mentions cost-shifting from government programs to private payers. Low reimbursement rates for Medicare and Medicaid have increased cost-shifting pressures on hospitals and doctors, who charge higher rates for the same services to private payers, which eventually affects health insurance rates.
The study predicts such a program would dramatically shift health insurance enrollment and touts big numbers: * Household spending on health care could drop by 37.9%, cutting costs nearly in half ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86. Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer's disease in Rocklin, California, according to his attorney, Minna Fernan.
Currently grant-funded by two foundations through May 2025, clinic leaders are advocating for state support as well as Medicaid policy changes that would allow for reimbursement of adult mental ...
More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in the state's Medicaid expansion program since it went live about seven months ago, officials announced Friday. Gov. Roy Cooper, joined by ...
Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri and South Carolina, indicated on the Federal Reserve map (see graph at right) as having many counties with high premature mortality rates, did not expand Medicaid. A study published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2009 found that lack of health insurance is ...