Medicaid Service Cuts Keep Coming—Arizona & Washington Limiting Medicaid Benefits

Share OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire – Strategic Health Care News The states of Arizona and Washington have changed their Medicaid plans to limit benefits in 2011 by eliminating or reducing optional Medicaid programs, all with the approval of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In all, since 2008 when the recession deepened in the United States, 31 states have reduced publicly funded health care services, and 30 have reduced services to older adults or individuals with disabilities. Twenty-three states have cut both public health and programs for the low-income elderly and disabled; these states are . . .