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'Arkansas Department of Human Services'

Fraud charged in federally funded child feeding program

The U.S. attorney's office has announced another indictment of a former state worker for defrauding money in operation of a feeding program for children.
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Private option per-person costs flat in new year, now well below federal budget caps

The latest private option news: costs are well below budget for 2015.
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Former Medicaid director and private option architect Andy Allison takes job with McKinsey

Andy Allison, the former Arkansas Medicaid director who served as the principal policy architect and manager of the private option, has taken a job as a Senior Expert with McKinsey & Company, the prominent multinational consulting firm. Allison began last week, a little over six months after he left his post at the Arkansas Department of Human Services.

Better health care, lower cost

Arkansas's Payment Improvement Initiative shows it can be done.
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Around 150,000 Arkansans have gained coverage so far under the private option for Medicaid expansion

The latest enrollment numbers on the private option.

Latest enrollment figures from DHS: 127,000 have gained coverage under the private option

The latest enrollment numbers from DHS are out: more than 127,000 have gained coverage under the private option. That's 127,000 Arkansans who will lose their health insurance if a minority of the legislature gets their way and blocks the private option.
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Private option foes spreading misinformation

Opponents of the private option really, really don’t like the policy, which uses Medicaid funds to purchase private health insurance plans for low-income Arkansans.

The "private option" for Medicaid expansion and budget neutrality

Earlier this month, the Department of Human Services sent their request to the feds for a waiver of federal rules in order to proceed with the so-called “private option” for Medicaid expansion.
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It was a good week for Medicaid predictions

Also a good week for checking on corporate welfare, and a bad week for crops and cattle, the gas tax drive, interstate traffic and the state Game and Fish Commission.

Russellville agency gives up Head Start funding

Stephens Media has been closely following the apparent implosion of an agency in Russellville that has overseen Head Start programs in 13 counties.
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