Scrubbed from the system
Why Medicaid enrollment has dropped by almost 60,000 people in 18 months.
Why Medicaid enrollment has dropped by almost 60,000 people in 18 months.
On June 29, Arkansas DHS announced it was suspending PFH from the state’s Medicaid program, halting reimbursement payments to the nonprofit’s 47 health care service sites across the state. But DHS continues to use a provider-led Medicaid managed care company that is part-owned by Preferred Family Healthcare.
Another former executive with scandal-plagued mental health provider arrested.
The federal criminal information released as part of former lobbyist Rusty Cranford's June 7 guilty plea on bribery charges describes a Person 9 who worked for the nonprofit healthcare provider Preferred Family Healthcare and was associated with Cranford.
On June 1, with the blessing of the Trump administration, Arkansas became the first state in the 50-year history of the Medicaid program to impose a work requirement on certain beneficiaries.
Fordyce is one of 58 Arkansas school districts and charter schools that allow all students to eat breakfast and lunch for free, thanks to a federal student nutrition program.
DHS action on home-care program was 'calculated disobedience' of court order, judge says.
Almost one-third of Arkansas Works beneficiaries who today hold a job may still fail to consistently meet the state’s new work requirements after the mandate goes into effect, according to a study released Thursday by the Urban Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank based in Washington D.C.
Law allows state entities to use future savings to pay for efficiency upgrades.
On Wednesday, both chambers of the Arkansas legislature approved identical versions of a bill to regulate pharmacy benefit managers, the powerful health care companies at the center of a dispute over cuts in reimbursements paid to pharmacists. Governor Hutchinson…
On Tuesday morning, a legislative committee overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow the Arkansas Insurance Department to regulate pharmacy benefit managers and require PBMs to obtain licenses to do business in the state. House Bill 1010 now heads…
On Thursday, U.S. Representative Rick Crawford (AR-1) sent letters to federal regulators stating his “grave concern” over the proposed acquisition of Aetna, Inc., one of the nation’s largest insurance companies, by CVS Health, a Rhode Island-based health care conglomerate that has been at the center of a political showdown in Arkansas.
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