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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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Health Care Services Company Centene Is Undergoing An Aggressive Push To Become One Of The Companies To Manage Tenncare Plans, Tennessee’s Medicaid Program. But Since 2021, The Company Has Settled Allegations That It Overbilled Or Fraudulent Charged Medicaid Programs In 17 Of The 30 States It Has Operated.
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House Speaker Cameron Sexton Opposes Extension Of TennCare’s Primary Contracts As Part Of A Continued Effort To Award A Separate Health-Care Company, That Spent At Least $1 Million Trying To Influence Tennessee Politics Over The Last 15 Years, A Contract After TennCare Lost A Bid.
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Three Tennessee Counties Subsidize A Significant Portion Of The State’s Tax Collection, Sending In More Than Double The Dollars They Receive, An Analysis Of Legislative Spending And State Budget Data From 2023 Shows.
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