by Jessica Casebolt | Sep 11, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
A lawsuit filed against Florida health officials Tuesday marks the first legal challenge to how states are dropping some enrollees from program rolls after the end of a pandemic-era policy that protected coverage. Three Floridians, including two children, claim the...
by Jessica Casebolt | Sep 11, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Federal officials have raised concerns about long wait times at state Medicaid call centers as millions of Medicaid recipients face the potential loss of health coverage for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly one-third of the states have received...
by Jessica Casebolt | Sep 11, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
New restrictions on access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday, but the Supreme Court will have the final say. The ruling by three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of...
by Jessica Casebolt | Sep 11, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Ohio voters rejected an initiative that was largely seen as an effort to undercut a November vote on adding abortion rights to Ohio’s constitution. The measure, known as Issue 1, would have raised the threshold for amending the state’s constitution from a...
by Jessica Casebolt | Aug 2, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
More than 5.6 million women live in counties with little to no access to maternity care services, according to a report from the March of Dimes. The nonprofit organization’s 2022 report shows that 1,119 counties qualify as maternity care deserts, marking a 2...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Nearly 4 million Medicaid recipients have lost coverage since the end of the public health emergency, but most of those were disenrolled due to procedural issues, not ineligibility. Such issues include misdirected paperwork, mistakes by state agencies, and other...
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