Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 30. January 2013 19:06
In a January 24, 2013 news release, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) reported that a new poll shows that more Americans support, rather than oppose, Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). According to the poll, 52 percent of Americans believe that their states should expand Medicaid; 42 percent do not believe their states should expand [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 24. July 2012 23:02
On June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Court’s decision primarily addressed the constitutionality of two key ACA provisions; the so-called “individual mandate” and the requirement that states dramatically expand their Medicaid programs. The Court ruled [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 5. April 2012 00:04
On March 26, 2012, a Florida U.S. District Court judge ordered the State Medicaid agency to “provide, fund, and authorize Applied Behavioral Analysis treatment … to all Medicaid-eligible persons under the age of 21 in Florida who have been diagnosed with autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder as prescribed by a physician or other licensed practitioner.” [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 6. January 2012 00:56
In a December 23, 2011 Informational Bulletin, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance to states on implementing the provider screening and enrollment requirements of CMS Final Rule 6028 (codified at 42 CFR 455 subpart E). The CMS rule provides that each state Medicaid agency must require all ordering or referring [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 8. February 2011 19:39
A fourth federal district court has ruled on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). On January 31, 2011 a Federal District Court Judge in Pensacola, Florida ruled that ACA violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution in that the Act requires every American to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty (called the “individual mandate”). Although the Judge upheld the constitutionality of the Medicaid expansion included in the Act, he ruled that the individual mandate is so intricately bound with the purpose of ACA that the invalidation of the individual mandate invalidates ACA in its entirety. [More]
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