by - July 16, 2015 7:29 pm
Enrollees in the state’s private option visit the emergency room at five times the rate of the rest of the Blue Cross population and are less likely to use their…
by - July 16, 2015 7:24 pm
Arkansas Medicaid officials have sent notices of termination to 25,000 Medicaid beneficiaries, almost all of them recipients of the state’s private option, informing them that they are losing their eligibility because they did not respond to a request for income verification.
by - July 15, 2015 8:22 pm
Arkansas pharmacists are reimbursed $3 less for dispensing generics than they are for brand-name drugs, creating a disincentive to sell them, Mark Riley, executive vice president of the Arkansas Pharmacists…
by - July 15, 2015 8:13 pm
Arkansas’ annual 2.2% growth in Medicaid spending from 2010-13 places it below the U.S. average of about 4% and in the middle of adjacent states – well below Oklahoma’s more…
by - July 14, 2015 7:58 pm
Arkansas, like 44 other states, gets an “F” for its medical pricing transparency from one report, but a statewide effort could raise the score and help consumers better understand what…
by - July 14, 2015 6:18 am
More than 15,000 individuals have lost state government health benefits because their family incomes vary at least 10% from their original applications and they did not respond to government requests to verify their incomes.
by - July 14, 2015 5:13 am
Alia Borroho, 32, has been a business development director at an education tech startup in Little Rock. She wanted to write software code instead. After 12 weeks of classes, she’ll be able to do so.
by - July 13, 2015 10:02 am
Support for the Affordable Care Act has increased slightly since the King v. Burwell decision, though more Americans disapprove than approve, while the percentage of uninsured American adults dropped slightly…
by - July 10, 2015 1:17 pm
The U.S. House of Representatives Friday passed a bill aimed at introducing medical breakthroughs faster to market. The state’s delegation split 2-2 on the bill.
by - July 10, 2015 6:08 am
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Little Rock District and the Arkansas Waterways Commission signed a $3 million cost-sharing agreement Thursday to fund a study meant to ensure the Arkansas…
by - July 9, 2015 6:08 pm
The number of uninsured patients treated by Arkansas hospitals for inpatient care decreased 48.7% from 2013 to 2014, but private option critics still worry about a long-term solution.
by - July 9, 2015 12:31 pm
Seventy-five percent (75%) of American adults favor raising the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products to 21, according to a Centers for Disease Control study published July 6 in the…
by - July 9, 2015 12:23 pm
Heroin deaths nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013, while use of the drug is increasing among most American demographic groups, most notably women, people with private insurance, and those with…
by - July 8, 2015 10:05 am
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services won’t deny doctors’ wrongly coded Medicare claims in a new coding system for a year as long as the claims are in the right family of codes, but Arkansas doctors aren’t out of the woods yet.
by - July 7, 2015 7:24 pm
Sixty-two percent (62%) of respondents agreed with the U.S. Supreme Court’s King v. Burwell decision, even though many Americans were not paying close attention to the case, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation reported last week.
by - July 7, 2015 10:53 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson Tuesday announced the creation of an interfaith summit to encourage faith-based communities to help find homes for foster care children and help departing inmates re-enter society. The…
by - July 6, 2015 8:41 pm
During the next two years, the most important number in Arkansas health care may be 1332. That’s a section of the Affordable Care Act, the one that created Obamacare, that,…
by - July 6, 2015 8:00 pm
Today begins an ongoing feature on Talk Business & Politics’ health channel, “Three Questions,” where health leaders and policy makers are asked to respond to three questions about important health…
by - July 6, 2015 7:21 pm
Baptist Health is partnering with Urgent Team, an independent extended hours medical provider, to open a new Baptist Health Urgent Care facility in North Little Rock, with more on the…
by - July 3, 2015 3:35 am
The number of enrollees in the Medicaid private option reached 218,376 at the end of June, an increase of about 4,000 from May, when it totaled 214,461. The number of…
