Iowa Medicaid officials said the state plans to start taking applications for a third managed care organization later this year. Iowa has had just two managed care organizations for its Medicaid program since United Healthcare left the state in June 2019. Amerigroup and Iowa Total Care, which joined the state on July 1, 2019, the day after United Healthcare officially pulled out, are the state's two current MCOs.
Amazon's medical service has approached several health plans to become a covered benefit. That would allow Amazon to reach more people and more companies.
California will soon provide state-subsidized healthcare for most undocumented immigrants in the state. Undocumented California residents under the age of 26 already had access to the state’s Medi-Cal healthcare plan. Under the new budget, that’s expanded to undocumented people over the age of 50 as well, so the only age group left out is people age 26 to 50.
United Healthcare, the largest insurer in the US, recently announced a new policy it said would help hold down health care costs: It would review claims for emergency department care, opening up the possibility that the company might deny coverage if a patient’s medical needs were not actually an emergency.
A voter-approved expansion of Medicaid took effect Thursday in Oklahoma after a decade of Republican resistance in a state that has become emblematic of the political struggle to extend the federal health insurance program in conservative strongholds.