In February, the Mississippi House of Representatives voted for full Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as “Obamacare”). That plan went over like a lead balloon with Republican senators, who developed their own Medicaid expansion plan, one which stopped short of full expansion.
Proponents of Medicaid expansion in Mississippi have asserted two primary goals:
• Providing health insurance for “the working poor” who do not currently have access; and
• Addressing uncompensated care for hospitals.
The Senate’s plan is more narrowly tailored to the stated goals of proponents. (It should be noted that the stated goals…
Sam Spector is a server at Wells Fargo Center, a field attendant at Lincoln Financial Field, and a bartender at Citizens Bank Park. She hasn’t been to the doctor since early in the COVID-19 pandemic, when she was forced out of work.
Once she got back to work, Spector, 43, made too much money for a government-assisted health-care plan, but not enough to buy health insurance for both herself and her 17-year-old daughter. Diabetes and heart problems run in her family, she said, and she worries that she could have health issues she doesn’t know about.
At the South Philadelphia…
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This week in Newark federal court, Maria Cosentino, the owner of Bergen Alliance Counseling Services, admitted her role in a health care fraud scheme involving hundreds of false claims.
Cosentino, 60, of Garfield, owned the center. The business provided counseling services and mental health treatment to children, families, couples and adults.
Prosecutors from the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey’s office had charged Cosentino with participating in a health care fraud scheme. She pleaded guilty to the charges March 19 before US District Judge Katharine Hayden.
“She admitted that for years she submitted false…
General and health insurance companies have decided to opt for ‘cashless’ treatment under health insurance policies across the country from Thursday.
Under the ‘Cashless Everywhere’ system, the policyholder can get treated in any hospital they choose, and a cashless facility will be available even if such a hospital is not in the network of the insurance company. This means the policyholder can get admitted to a hospital without paying any money and insurance companies will pay the bill on the discharge day.…