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Experts: Slight 2022 Arizona health insurance gains …

10/2/2023
The number of Arizonans with health insurance rose in 2022, a post-pandemic bump that experts say has likely turned sharply south in the year since, as COVID-19 benefits have been phased out.

Hobbs says state is victim of fraud within AHCCCS

5/16/2023
PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes said Tuesday the state has been the victim of massive fraud in its health care program and blamed their Republican predecessors for ignoring it.

Arizona state senators approve funding for Medicaid

5/3/2023
PHOENIX — State lawmakers on Wednesday finally approved the funding that the state’s Medicaid program needs to pay its current bills.

State begins to shed thousands from Medicaid, push …

4/6/2023
WASHINGTON – Arizona started purging people from the pandemic-inflated Medicaid rolls this month, a process that could end up pushing more than 600,000 people off the plan, health officials and advocates said.

Litchfield doctor attends White House Inflation …

9/13/2022
President Joe Biden and thousands of his supporters from around the country attended a White House celebration Tuesday afternoon, lauding the passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, signed …

Hospitals divert primary care patients to health …

9/10/2022
A growing number of hospitals are outsourcing often-unprofitable outpatient services for their poorest patients by setting up independent, nonprofit organizations to provide primary care.

Medicaid may attach strings to nursing home payments

6/12/2022
The Biden administration is considering a requirement that the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes spend most of their payments from Medicaid on direct care for residents and limit the amount used for operations, maintenance and capital improvements or diverted to profits.

Arizona lawmakers consider Medicaid expansion

3/14/2022
PHOENIX – Advocates are pushing Arizona lawmakers to expand Medicaid coverage for women after they give birth, to help improve maternal health outcomes and combat rising pregnancy-related …

Arizonans with health insurance on the rise

12/2/2021
When COVID-19 first hit Arizona in early 2020, the job market was turned upside down and thousands of residents were left unemployed. That meant many Arizonans were left without affordable …

Arizona Legislature expands Medicaid spending

3/29/2021
Arizona health experts are celebrating the passage of legislation that will increase the expenditure authority for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.

Verma: Taking action to protect America’s nursing …

7/10/2020
Nursing homes have become ground zero in the coronavirus disease 2019 COVID-19 pandemic, with outbreaks causing high rates of illness and death among vulnerable residents living together in close …

Testing for COVID-19 can be costly in long-term care …

5/30/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit long-term care facilities and the senior population the hardest, especially in Arizona, where over 77% of deaths are in people 65+. In addition, deaths in long-term care …