Health Care Reform Legislation to Reshape Medicaid, Including More Managed Care

OPEN MINDS Weekly Wire Strategic Health Care News Medicaid expansion is a key tool in the new health care reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to reduce the ranks of uninsured low-income individuals and families without access to affordable employer-sponsored health insurance. Starting January 1, 2014, state Medicaid programs will be required to cover all individuals under the age of 65 with incomes at or less than 133% of the federal poverty level—$10,830 for an individual or $20,050 for a family of four in 2009. Until 2014, states are required to maintain . . .