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States’ Medicaid Costs Grow Even Before Potential Federal Cuts
25 Apr 2025 13:48 GMT
… action, states such as Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, New York … challenges reflect a counterintuitive reality: Medicaid enrollment is declining nationally, yet … also highlights high-priced pharmaceutical drugs for specific diseases, such as …
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Rep. Ryan discusses Optum survey, potential Medicaid cuts at Poughkeepsie meeting
16 Apr 2025 20:53 GMT
… merged with the Western Connecticut Health Network to form … insurance claims and high drug costs as an Optum … for scheduling and supporting medication refills and clinical questions.… Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid.
Ryan voted against the …
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Skyrocketing cost of weight-loss drugs has state Medicaid programs looking for a solution
07 Apr 2025 04:45 GMT
… cost of popular GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound … people on Medicaid who can use the pricey diabetes drugs for weight … permission.
Haigh reported from Hartford, Connecticut. Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania …
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The skyrocketing cost of weight-loss drugs has state Medicaid programs looking for a solution
06 Apr 2025 12:59 GMT
… GLP-1 medications for obesity treatment for patients on Medicaid, the federal … budget director in Connecticut, where Medicaid coverage of the drugs for weight loss … cover the medications under Medicare’s Part D prescription drug coverage. Biden …
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Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth
02 Apr 2025 10:42 GMT
… was Black and on Medicaid—race and income bias … had been tested for drugs without her knowledge or … by hospital-administered medications like morphine. A newborn drug test “rarely … authorities. In both Colorado and Connecticut, for example, hospitals are …
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Medicaid cuts could hurt older adults who rely on home care, nursing homes
28 Mar 2025 16:49 GMT
… medications.”
The care at Community PACE is paid for by Medicaid … , bathing, dressing, chances are Medicaid was involved.
– Natalie Kean, … are balking, publicly defending Medicaid and warning about the … such as California and Connecticut get less help, while …
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RFK’s drug-ad ban is a bipartisan win
26 Mar 2025 01:24 GMT
… companies to relentlessly market their drugs to unsuspecting consumers. Non … campaigns are for newer medications that haven’t yet … a Democratic senator from Connecticut who may run for president … for the wealthy and gutting Medicaid, the health-care programme …
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PODCAST: Lawmakers, Lamont at odds over Medicaid-covered GLP-1s
24 Mar 2025 18:52 GMT
… cost Connecticut more than $80 million last year. Should Medicaid keep … on with weight loss drugs covered by Medicaid. Could you just tell … wants to cover a particular drug or not. Doesn’t … at the same time, Connecticut’s Medicaid program is facing a deficit …
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Connecticut cancer survivors advocate in Hartford for more biomarker testing
20 Mar 2025 17:59 GMT
… ensured such access for Medicaid enrollees, but private insurance … of medical innovation, so Connecticut communities are faced with …
Bryte Johnson, ACS CAN Connecticut director of government relations, … that 60% of oncology drugs launched in the past …
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Home Health Workers Say Proposed Medicaid Rate Hikes Fall Short
18 Mar 2025 00:33 GMT
… legislature in 2023, compared Connecticut’s Medicaid reimbursement rates for various … not compare medication administration rates, it found that Connecticut Medicaid pays home … more than half of Connecticut’s Medicaid reimbursements.
President Donald Trump …