At the onset of the COVID pandemic in March of 2020, Congress made an important policy decision: continued access to health coverage was crucial, especially because, at the time, it was uncertain how the economy would...more
9/19/2023
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Here at the Medicaid and the Law Blog, we’ve spent the past couple of days going through the American Rescue Plan Act, legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives last Friday that is the latest attempt by...more
Right before the new year, we told you about some of the Medicaid-related provisions of the COVID relief package that was recently signed into law by President Trump. One provision of that law that we thought merited a...more
Today we want to address a topic that many state Medicaid agencies will no doubt be thinking about in the coming months, as the COVID-caused pandemic continues to threaten state finances and Congress has somewhat tied states’...more
Here at the Medicaid and the Law Blog, we spent part of our holiday break reading through the most recent COVID-19 relief package that was finally signed into law by President Trump amid a not-insignificant amount of drama. ...more
In a historic presidential election that began during the COVID-19 pandemic and ended with record voter turnout and mail-in ballots, former Vice President Joseph Biden of Delaware was declared the 46th president of the United...more
Last month, we described the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcing the allocation to Medicaid providers under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. In the past...more
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began to seriously affect the United States in March, Congress has passed four major pieces of legislation to address the public health crisis. CMS has also jumped into action and has issued a...more
We haven’t posted on the blog in a while due to the rapid increase in our workload due to the coronavirus pandemic. We’re preparing a longer post that will go through everything that’s happened in Medicaid legislatively and...more
On April 24, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (HCEA), which appropriated an additional $75 billion to the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund...more
On March 27, 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), the third and by far the largest stimulus package passed by Congress to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. As discussed...more
Now that the devastating scope of the COVID-19 pandemic has become clear, the United States government is responding rapidly to address both its health care and economic impacts. Two emergency supplemental appropriations...more
3/23/2020
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The global pandemic caused by the novel corona virus has certainly shaken up our normal way of life and will do so for the foreseeable future. Times like this reinforce the importance of public health insurance programs like...more
3/19/2020
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