Listen The Tennessee legislature has designed a budget maneuver to pay for proposed rules around Medicaid. Republican states, including Tennessee, are adding requirements that Medicaid recipients have to work if they can. But enforcement is proving to be costly.
Lawmakers Prepare To Debate Medicaid Work Requirement, And Haslam Sees An Unexpected Upside
Listen Tennessee lawmakers could debate this session whether to add a work requirement to Medicaid, after President Donald Trump’s administration said last month that it’d be willing to accept proposals that force enrollees to have a job, be training for one or engage in some sort of volunteer work.
TennCare Enacts 5-Day Opioid Prescription Limit With Broader Proposals To Come
Listen This week, Tennessee’s Medicaid program began enforcing a limit on first-time opioid prescriptions. TennCare patients can only get enough pills for five days. Legislative leaders say similar restrictions are in the works to regulate painkiller prescribing for all Tennesseans.
Legislative Leaders Support Work Requirement For TennCare
Leaders of the Tennessee General Assembly are jumping at the chance to add a work requirement for TennCare. A new policy from the Trump Administration allows Medicaid programs in each state to pursue new restrictions.
Investigators Blame TennCare’s Dense Paperwork For Bumping Vulnerable Enrollees
Listen TennCare’s 98-page renewal form is making it harder than necessary for low-income Tennesseans to maintain their subsidized government health coverage, according to the Tennessee Comptroller. After conducting an investigation requested by House Speaker Beth Harwell, the state agency has issued a memo suggesting a list of changes.
TennCare Predicts Enrollment To Level Out At 1.4M, Even As Economy Booms
Tennessee’s Medicaid program swelled to 1.5 million people after the Affordable Care Act took effect — matching an all-time high set around the year 2000 and meaning nearly a quarter of the state was on TennCare. Numbers have fallen slightly from that peak as the economy has boomed. But TennCare officials say they’re finding a […]
TennCare Ditches Northrop Grumman, Starts Over On Eligibility Computer System
A year after a contractor failed to deliver a new computer system to TennCare, the agency is starting over. Northrop Grumman won the $35 million project three years ago but has never brought online the new system for determining who is eligible for health benefits.
Doomed From The Start: Tennessee May Just Scrap Computer System For Determining Who Gets Medicaid
TennCare hired Northrop Grumman to build a system that supposed to be done a year and a half ago and remains nowhere near complete.
Patients Sue TennCare For Giving Them The Runaround
Infants waiting on vaccinations, pregnant women forgoing prenatal care and people with deadly infections refusing to go to the hospital — these are the kinds of anecdotes contained in a new lawsuit against Tennessee’s Medicaid program.
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