Medicaid Programs – Ohio, Louisiana

Should some Ohio Medicaid recipients have to pay premiums?, By Catherine Candisky, January 18, 2016, Columbus Dispatch: “Tens of thousands of low-income Ohioans could lose Medicaid coverage under a state plan to charge premiums and impose penalties on those who miss the payments, advocates for the poor warn…”
Louisiana’s Medicaid expansion enrollment could grow to 450,000, By Kevin Litten, January 22, 2016, New Orleans Times-Picayune: “The Department of Health and Hospitals is now forecasting that Louisiana’s Medicaid rolls could swell to nearly 450,000 people after initially projecting that as many as 300,000 uninsured could be covered under the federally funded program. The department had originally based its projections based on U.S. Census data that counted about 306,000 people as uninsured. But there is also a population of about 130,000 people who are part of the Take Charge Plus program who are eligible to receive screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STI) and family planning services for men and women even if they aren’t eligible for Medicaid coverage…”