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'10-day response window'

L’Oréal, Halter's Scenic Hill Solar open massive new solar project in NLR.

Cosmetics maker L’Oréal and Scenic Hill Solar, a Little Rock-based solar energy company started by former Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, cut the ribbon this morning on a massive new power generating solar array in North Little Rock.
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Hutchinson administration: no plan in place to help tens of thousands of Medicaid beneficiaries kicked off of coverage in violation of federal regulations

Gov. Asa Hutchinson said this weekend that Arkansas is a "compassionate state." But the Hutchinson administration has no plan in place to help more than 50,000 losing Medicaid coverage — many of them eligible according to the state's own data — despite the fact that we now know they were kicked off in violation of federal regulations.
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The Arkansas Medicaid mess: Feds make clear that state's 10-day renewal deadline violated federal regulations

The feds have made it clear: the Arkansas 10-day response deadline for its Medicaid renewal process wasn't just a policy disaster — it violated federal regulations.

Governor's office fielding problems regarding Medicaid beneficiaries whose coverage has been terminated

The governor's office this weekend has fielded reports from insurance companies and beneficiaries regarding problems in the wake of tens of thousands of Medicaid coverage terminations, sources tell the Times. That includes reports of beneficiaries who have been unable to get needed medicine because their coverage has terminated. Insurance companies are working closely with the governor's office to verify reported problems and to attempt to ascertain whether they represent trends or unique situations.
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The 90-day window: What happens to beneficiaries whose coverage was terminated by the state's troubled Medicaid verification system

Many of the Medicaid beneficiaries whose coverage was terminated for failing to respond within 10 days to an income-verification letter are in fact eligible for the program. Once terminated, they have 90 days to provide DHS with the relevant information and be re-enrolled without having to start over with a new application. Here's what beneficiaries in this situation should do and how the process will work (or at least how it's supposed to work).

(***UPDATES) Federal regulations demand that states give Medicaid beneficiaries "at least 30 days" to respond to renewal notices

Gov. Asa Hutchinson and other state officials have continually stated that the 10-day deadline they imposed on beneficiaries to respond to income-verification letters was kosher because it was the minimum allowed by federal rules. However, the relevant federal regulations appear to demand that states give 30 days for beneficiaries to respond.
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The Arkansas Medicaid scandal: the state is purging the rolls of tens of thousands of eligible beneficiaries

Tens of thousands of Arkansans have been kicked off of Medicaid for failure to respond to an income verification letter. Many of them are eligible for the program according to the very data that triggered the letter in the first place.
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