(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah State Auditor Tina Cannon says federal money designed to help Medicaid patients in nursing homes was not used properly. She says only 49-percent of the federal funding went to helping patients. The majority went to companies running those facilities. The auditor accuses them of […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — After weeks of outages, all Utah Medicaid patients should be able to fill their prescriptions. Yesterday, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services reported that Change Healthcare’s system — which had been experiencing the outages — had been restored. Officials say they’ll continue to […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Medicaid has advised pharmacies to provide free medication to 17-thousand Medicaid members amid a cyber outage. The outage has caused issues with prescription information, and the medication will be given to high-risk patients who need it to survive. Officials say the outage is expected […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah health officials are reaching out to thousands of Medicaid recipients due to a massive mailing error. The Department of Health and Human Services says the personal medical information of nearly six-thousand people may have been mailed to the wrong recipients. The issue was first […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After voters expanded Medicaid in conservative states like Missouri and Oklahoma, health care advocates are renewing a push for expansion in Mississippi and other Southern states where Republican leaders have long been opposed. They say the changing tide has followed rising income inequality, joblessness and pressure […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — They support police reform, LGBTQ rights and Medicaid expansion. But in deeply conservative Utah, thousands of liberal-leaning voters are registering as Republicans because they say it’s the only way to have a political voice in a key election next week. The state’s June 30 primary […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Voters could soon be asked to change the Utah Constitution to allow a major shift in education funding after a deal announced Wednesday with the state’s largest teacher’s union. The compromise would include increasing the amount of money schools get per student and the creation […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-The Trump administration will allow Medicaid expansion with a work requirement in Utah. The decision came Monday despite courts taking a dim view of the requirement in other states. Republican lawmakers in Utah contend that work requirements make people healthier and more financially stable. Critics say the […]
REXBURG, Idaho (AP) — The Brigham Young University-Idaho campus says it will once again accept Medicaid as health insurance that meets its coverage requirement after the school was criticized for adopting a different policy. Campus officials apologized Monday “for the turmoil caused by our earlier decision.” “We have decided that […]
PHOENIX (AP) — An elected official in metro Phoenix has pleaded not guilty to fraud and theft charges stemming from an alleged human smuggling scheme involving pregnant women from the Marshall Islands who were brought to the U.S. to give birth for adoptions. Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, who in […]
