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TennCare is covering diapers for babies until age 2. Here’s where to find them.
About 9,000 Tennessee families signed up this month for a program covering 100 diapers per month — with no co-pay or prescription.
Tennessee is putting $80M into rural health workforce programming. Here’s how.
Not everything on Gov. Bill Lee’s wish list made it into the state budget this year, but lawmakers did sign off on his plan to invest in access to health care for rural Tennesseans.
Medicaid offices — including TennCare — target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs
Congressional scrutiny and recent investigations are raising questions about a practice that targets dead people’s homes to recoup health care costs.
TennCare had to start eligibility checks again. About 1 in 3 are losing coverage.
Since Congress called an end to several pandemic-relief policies last year, state Medicaid agencies like TennCare have been doing something that wasn’t allowed for years: dropping members who no longer qualify.
GOP quarterback, zookeeper, Tennessee House majority leader: Who is William Lamberth?
Most people only know politicians for the bills they sponsor. It’s not often people think about their lives outside of politics. For this story, WPLN News sat down with Tennessee House Majority Leader William Lamberth and talked about his life outside the capitol and his life leading up to becoming a state elected official.
New TennCare benefits aim to make breastfeeding easier
TennCare has added more benefits for postpartum members: breastfeeding supports.
The cost of care for disabilities and chronic illnesses
The American healthcare system is not known for its affordability. Giving birth costs an average of $18,885 nationwide before insurance. If you have a medical emergency, you can expect to spend hundreds on your ambulance ride — and that doesn’t even include the cost of the medical care itself. In fact, medical debt is the leading type […]
TennCare’s fraud unit receives funding again, despite WPLN’s report showing lackluster results
Tennessee’s Medicaid program, TennCare, has a unit dedicated to rooting out potential fraud among beneficiaries and caregivers. A WPLN story from February showed that while costing taxpayers $6.4 million each year, they recoup far less than that.
TennCare uses scare tactics and aggressive enforcement to root out fraud. With millions spent, the agency has little to show for it.
The state’s low-income health insurance program, TennCare, funds an outside unit dedicated to rooting out potential fraud. After millions of dollars spent each year, it has less and less to show for the effort aside from slapping Tennesseans with felonies unnecessarily.
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