Tag: pandemic

AFMC’s Hanley evaluates end to pandemic emergency, new Medicaid expansion program

Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care CEO Ray Hanley, a former Medicaid director for the state, said the lifting of the pandemic emergency order was “pretty inevitable,” but he warns that…

Arkansas lawmakers approve governor’s 60-day extension of pandemic emergency order

Gov. Asa Hutchinson asked lawmakers Monday (March 29) to approve his 60-day extension of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency, and they agreed but not without lengthy debate. On a voice vote…