Medicaid / MassHealth - Funding

07.23.2018  | Proposed State Budget Passes Legislature, Sent to Governor
The Massachusetts Legislature approved a $41.88 billion FY2019 state budget last Wednesday and sent it to Governor Baker.
05.21.2018  | Senate Budget Debate Begins; MHA Suggests Two Amendments
Debate on the Massachusetts Senate’s budget proposal begins tomorrow and MHA has two priority amendment.
04.16.2018  | House Budget Provides Support for DSH and Safety Net
The Massachusetts House Ways & Means Committee released its proposed FY19 state budget last Wednesday, and a preliminary review of it shows that the budget writers were responsive to some key hospital priorities.
03.26.2018  | State Funding for Primary Care Providers Needing ACO Help
EOHHS announced a new opportunity for primary care providers seeking to participate in the new MassHealth ACO program.
01.29.2018  | MassHealth Reform Revisited in Governor’s State Budget Proposal
Last Wednesday, Governor Charlie Baker released a $40.9 billion FY19 state budget proposal.
10.16.2017  | A Focus on Employer Insurance Reporting and MassHealth Funding
A deficiency budget that the Massachusetts House passed this week to close the books on FY17 included a provision requiring every employer in Massachusetts with six or more workers to out an employer medical assistance contribution (EMAC) compliance
10.13.2017  | Statement from MHA President & CEO Lynn Nicholas on Trump administration’s insurance announcements
Statement from Lynn Nicholas, MHA President & CEO, on the Trump administration’s federal insurance changes
10.13.2017  | MHA President & CEO Lynn Nicholas statement on AG Maura Healey joining CSR lawsuit
Statement from Lynn Nicholas, MHA President & CEO, on AG Maura Healey joining CSR lawsuit against the Trump administration.
10.02.2017  | As Repeal Was Debated, Other Critical Issues Loomed
MHA is concerned about federal Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) funding provided to states to support those hospitals that cover a large percentage of Medicaid recipients.
09.25.2017  | Markey to Hold Event Monday
U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) had scheduled an event on Monday to bring attention to how the Graham-Cassidy plan will be detrimental to Massachusetts.
09.25.2017  | ACA Repeal Effort – Opposed by Many – May Be Stalled
The latest effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – through the so called Graham-Cassidy bill – would be, according to analyses from across the political spectrum, devastating to Massachusetts.
09.18.2017  | House Votes on MHA Budget Priority to Restore MassHealth Funding
The Massachusetts House on Wednesday voted to restore the $220 million to MassHealth that Governor Charlie Baker had vetoed out of the $39.4 billion state budget he had signed in July.
09.11.2017  | Federal Medicaid DSH Advocacy Continues
This week, the Massachusetts House Congressional delegation sent a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price urging that the Trump Administration not move forward on proposed cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) f
09.04.2017  | FY2018 Acute Care Hospital RFA is Out
The state has released the 2018 Request for Applications (RFA) – the main contract between the MassHealth program and acute care hospitals serving Medicaid patients.
08.07.2017  | MassHealth-to-Commercial Shift on Hold – for Now
Governor Charlie Baker on Wednesday signed off on half of his plan to address growing costs in the state’s healthcare system.
07.31.2017  | Senate’s ACA Repeal Effort Begins, Stalls, Eventually Fails
Early on Friday morning the U.S. Senate voted down the latest effort – termed “skinny repeal” – to dramatically alter the Affordable Care Act.
07.31.2017  | MHA Urges Collective Effort on MassHealth
Governor Baker’s MassHealth reform package, which he coupled with an increase in the per-worker assessment employers pay, suffered a setback last week.
07.24.2017  | Gov. Baker Sets Deadline for MassHealth Reforms
Last week Governor Baker signed a $39.4 billion state budget, vetoing about $222 million in MassHealth line while sending back to the legislature proposed healthcare amendments to the budget that Baker wants action on within 60 days
07.17.2017  | Latest GOP Bill: Still Slashes Medicaid, Now Increases Insurer Risk
The latest version of the Republican healthcare reform bill that the U.S. Senate leadership released on Thursday would still drastically cut federal Medicaid funding to Massachusetts.
07.03.2017  | Mass. Stands to Lose Billions and Increase Uninsured Under BCRA
The U.S. Senate Republican leadership was reported to be putting its rewrite of its healthcare reform bill back on the fast track.

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