Lion's share of Medicaid expansion paid by federal government
The effect of new Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will depend largely on federal and state actions to roll out the provisions and encourage enrollment.
NATIONAL REPORTS-The effect of new Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will depend largely on federal and state actions to roll out the provisions and encourage enrollment.
The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform issued separate analyses of predicted Medicaid spending, based on projected enrollment scenarios. Enhanced outreach to encourage enrollment among the newly eligible and the currently eligible who have failed to enroll in Medicaid will drive participation rates.
In this episode of the "Meet the Board" podcast series, Briana Contreras, Managed Healthcare Executive editor, speaks with Ateev Mehrotra, a member of the MHE editorial advisory board and a professor of healthcare policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School. Mehtrotra is also a hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In the discussion, Contreras gets to know Mehrotra more on a personal level and picks his brain on some of his research interests including telehealth, alternative payment models and price transparency.
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