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AHCCCS will renew bid to seek premiums, copays for Medicaid enrollees
Lawmakers have been trying to impose premiums and copays on Arizona’s Medicaid enrollees starting next January, but that decision is ultimately up to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. And if past experiences were a guide, it’s going to be a tough sell.
Medicaid director should champion patients
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper has rejected arguments by Tom Betlach, director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System – Arizona’s Medicaid program – that he can effectively protect our state’s expanded Medicaid program by serving as sole defender in a lawsuit filed by the Goldwater Institute.
We’ve got your best interests at heart
The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest wants to intervene as a defendant in the lawsuit against Medicaid expansion, arguing that AHCCCS Director Tom Betlach does not necessarily represent the interests of its clients, four childless adults that are receiving Medicaid coverage as a result of the 2013 law.
Medicaid waiver provides opening for premiums, higher copays
The Obama administration’s willingness to cut deals with Republican states as a way of getting them to cover more people under the Affordable Care Act has given Arizona’s conservative leaders the perfect opening to push for premiums and bigger copays on Medicaid members.
Budget clears first hurdle, now faces GOP opposition
Arizona legislators advanced a budget deal struck by Senate and House leaders and Gov. Doug Ducey, but the bills won’t move any further unless GOP leadership can change the minds of more than a dozen rank-and-file members opposed to the spending plan.
Oral arguments scheduled in Medicaid expansion case
GOP lawmakers have won the right to challenge former Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion program, and now a Maricopa County judge has scheduled their day in court.
Ducey proposes cuts, one-time sweeps to balance budget
Gov. Doug Ducey proposed a combination of one-time solutions and hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts, including big hits to universities and Medicaid providers, while Arizona waits for the economy recover enough for its budget to be structurally balanced by fiscal year 2017.
Arizona Supreme Court to announce Medicaid ruling
The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday will announce whether it will allow a lawsuit against Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion plan to move forward.
Arizona Supreme Court to hear Medicaid arguments today
The Arizona Supreme Court is set to take up Gov. Jan Brewer's appeal of a decision allowing a lawsuit challenging her Medicaid expansion plan to proceed.
Quick looks: AZ legislative campaign finance
Campaign finance reports from this year's most contentious legislative races broken down.
Lawmakers, business groups urge reversal of Medicaid ruling
Supporters of Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion plan urged the Arizona Supreme Court to reverse an appellate court’s ruling that a group of Republican lawmakers has standing to challenge the constitutionality of the program.
Naysayers continue to block implementation of Medicaid restoration
Last year Gov. Jan. Brewer, backed by enlightened legislators on both sides of the aisle, the medical, hospital and business communities, and thousands of activist volunteers across the state, gained a hard-won victory in passage of the Medicaid restoration bill, enabling our state to extend Medicaid coverage to an estimated
