by The City Wire staff - May 1, 2013 8:35 pm
On the heels of last week’s legislative session where state lawmakers approved the “private option” health insurance plan, Arkansas Medicaid leaders are already working to move the proposal forward. The…
by The City Wire staff - March 28, 2013 11:54 am
The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce/Associated Industries of Arkansas are throwing their weight behind the “private option” plan to move Medicaid expansion dollars into a legislative plan that would subsidize…
by The City Wire staff - March 24, 2013 1:17 pm
Medicaid expansion “is dead,” Rep. Charlie Collins (R-Fayetteville) told a hometown audience on Friday (March 22), but the framework for a phoenix plan is alive, under construction, and receiving a…
by The City Wire staff - March 5, 2013 11:58 am
A recent report from the United States Census Bureau ranks the state of Arkansas as one of the top states for disability prevalence among the total population. The report, which…
by The City Wire staff - February 27, 2013 11:31 pm
Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Joe Thompson says the new Medicaid option for the state may need a more accurate name, and he says that avoiding a federally-run insurance exchange could…
by The City Wire staff - February 27, 2013 7:41 am
Gov. Mike Beebe (D) told state lawmakers that federal health officials have green-lighted Arkansas’ request for flexibility with its Medicaid program and health insurance exchanges – a move that could…
by The City Wire staff - February 22, 2013 4:42 pm
House Speaker Davy Carter, R-Cabot, says fellow legislators are seeking answers on federal Medicaid flexibility from Gov. Mike Beebe’s Friday afternoon meeting with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen…
by The City Wire staff - February 21, 2013 2:17 pm
Arkansas has been awarded a $42 million State State Innovation Model grant by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to assist with its Payment Improvement Initiative efforts. The…
by The City Wire staff - February 21, 2013 12:52 pm
The latest Talk Business-Hendrix College survey of Arkansas voters tested a battery of questions related to abortion, Medicaid, guns, a steel mill superproject and Arkansas political figures. During the next…
by The City Wire staff - January 30, 2013 7:25 pm
Members of the executive committee of the Joint Audit Committee met briefly Wednesday afternoon so that co-chairs Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forest, and Rep. Kim Hammer, R-Benton, could inform lawmakers…
by The City Wire staff - January 26, 2013 3:42 pm
Gun rights and government healthcare were the highlights of a legislative forum held Saturday morning (Jan. 26) in Bentonville, with Sen. Cecile Bledsoe, R-Rogers, discussing her concerns with a proposed…
by The City Wire staff - January 21, 2013 6:48 pm
Medicaid expansion in Arkansas was recently debated via guest commentaries by Joe Thompson, Arkansas’ Surgeon General and Director of the Arkansas Center of Health Improvement, and Dan Greenberg, a lawyer,…
by The City Wire staff - November 19, 2012 3:33 pm
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) said Monday that the Oklahoma Department of Health will not participate in a state-based health exchange or to expand Medicaid – key parts of the…
by The City Wire staff - October 31, 2012 6:12 pm
In about two weeks, Gov. Mike Beebe (D) will present his balanced budget to the Arkansas General Assembly, but balancing a potential $400 million Medicaid shortfall will be a tough…
by The City Wire staff - September 12, 2012 4:52 pm
Gov. Mike Beebe's (D) decision to support an expansion of the state's Medicaid program is re-igniting a health care debate likely to play out in this year's legislative elections and…
by The City Wire staff - August 13, 2012 11:40 am
Gov. Mike Beebe isn’t happy with Whirlpool, believes some of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s federal budget plans could be “problematic and troublesome,” and is willing to put his tax-cutting credentials…
by The City Wire staff - July 27, 2012 11:21 am
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced Friday (July 27) that Arkansas and other states have reached an agreement with the McKesson Corporation to settle allegations that McKesson reported inflated pricing data…
by The City Wire staff - July 25, 2012 5:33 pm
Republican legislative leaders in the House and Senate asked the Beebe administration to slow the process for a potential Medicaid expansion and to consider a laundry list of reforms. In…
by The City Wire staff - July 23, 2012 10:03 am
Arkansans continue to oppose the federal health care law’s implementation despite a Supreme Court ruling and shifting national public opinion. Also according to the latest Talk Business-Hendrix College Poll, the…
by The City Wire staff - July 2, 2012 2:32 pm
Arkansas’ Medicaid program will receive $7.65 million in an agreement with drug maker GlaxoSmithKline, according to a statement released Monday (July 2) by Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. Several states and…
