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Over The Past Few Budget Years, Tennessee Has Received TennCare Reserves That Have Covered The State’s End-Of-Year Budget Shortfalls. This Budget Year, Senate Finance Chair Bo Watson Vowed The Budget Would Be Adjusted For Lower-Than-Expected Tax And Use Fee Collections. The Budget Came In At $52.8 Billion, Lower Than The Past Two Years.
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Tennessee’s Most Recent Tenncare Changes To Add A Diaper Benefit, Expand Caretaker Eligibility For Dependent Children And Enhance Home And Community Services For Those With Disabilities Have Been Approved And Will Be Part Of The Program Through At Least 2030.
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More Than 400,000 TennCare Participants Have Now Been Found To Be Ineligible For The Program As It Has Gone Through Unwinding And An Eligibility Check Post-Pandemic.
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Tennessee’s General Assembly Has Diverted $3 Million That Was Earmarked For A Maternal Health Pilot Program To Instead Be Spent With Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
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TennCare Has Renewed Eligibility For 61% Of Those In The Program During Its Annual Redetermination Process, Which Began In April For The First Time Since A Federal Pandemic Pause Halted The Process.
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Tennessee’s State Of The Child 2023 Report Finds Crime Among Minors Within The State Is In Decline, But Especially In Shelby And Davidson Counties.
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Nearly 239,000 Tennessee Residents Have Lost Eligibility From The First 735,000 Who Had Eligibility Checked For TennCare Services Through September, According To A New TennCare Renewal Report.
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Outgoing Republican Rep. Sam Whitson Is Mulling A Reversal Of State Law Requiring The Governor To Gain Approval From The Tennessee Legislature Before Expanding Medicaid.
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TennCare Is Asking For A $735.3 Million Budget Increase Between State And Federal Funds Next Year As It Moves To A New Medicaid Management Information System, Which Carries A One-Time Cost Of $237 Million, Of Which $212.3 Million Will Come From Federal Funds.
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Tennessee Extended Its Three Contracts For The State’s Multibillion-Dollar Medicaid Program After It Was Delayed A Month By State House Republicans. The Fiscal Review Committee Extended Old Contracts Instead Of Entering Into The New Ones Agreed To In 2021 Because Of Centene’s Lawsuit.
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