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Nevada is primed to become the 18th state to use Medicaid funds to increase access to abortion for lower-income women. The change is a result of a court ruling that became official this week after ...
The Senate Concurrent Resolution 1044 ( SCR 1044) or Arizona In-Sate Tuition for Non-Citizen Resident Measure is a legislatively referred state statute on the ballot for the November 8, 2022 election in Arizona. SCR 1044 would repeal provisions of Proposition 300 passed in 2006.
Resource-based relative value scale. Resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) is a schema used to determine how much money medical providers should be paid. It is partially used by Medicare in the United States and by nearly all health maintenance organizations (HMOs). RBRVS assigns procedures performed by a physician or other medical ...
For states that do expand Medicaid, the law provides that the federal government will pay for 100% of the expansion for the first three years, then gradually reduce its subsidy to 90% by 2020. [90] [91] As of August 2016, 31 states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid. [76] (See: State rejections of Medicaid expansion).
Medicaid was instituted for the very poor in 1965. Since enrollees must pass a means test, Medicaid is a social welfare or social protection program rather than a social insurance program. Despite its establishment, the percentage of US residents who lack any form of health insurance has increased since 1994. [ 62 ]
A continuing care retirement community (CCRC), [1][2] sometimes known as a life plan community, is a type of retirement community in the U.S. where a continuum of aging care needs—from independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care—can all be met within the community. [3] These various levels of shelter and care may be housed ...
The estimated SGR to go into effect on March 1, 2010, was -8.8%, and the conversion factor for the physician fee schedule was -21.3%. [ 4] On March 3, 2010, Congress delayed the enforcement of the conversion factor until April 1, 2010, with the passage of the Temporary Extension Act of 2010. [ 7][ 8] On April 15, 2010, Congress enacted the ...
Reno (/ ˈriːnoʊ / REE-noh) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border. It is the county seat and most populous city of Washoe County. Sitting in the High Eastern Sierra foothills, in the Truckee River valley, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, it is about 23 miles (37 km ...