How to Use Medicaid in a Sentence

Medicaid

noun
  • Jump to: Millions of people may lose access to Medicaid.
    Katie Camero, SELF, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Patients on Medicare and Medicaid appear less likely to be able to access them than those with private coverage.
    April Rubin, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
  • For those with no co-pay or those on Medicaid, the out-of-pocket cost could be $0.
    Amy Marschall, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Biden over the weekend appeared to rule out changes to Medicaid.
    Darlene Superville, Fortune, 17 May 2023
  • Biden has said the Medicaid work requirements would be a nonstarter.
    Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 27 May 2023
  • But since the unwinding, the clinic saw an 8% drop in Medicaid patients.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 31 May 2024
  • Importantly, Medicaid pays for 42% of all births in the U.S. but covers access to donor milk in just 17 states.
    Sionika Thayagabalu and Dominick Lemas, STAT, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Alaska is not one of those states, and this type of care in the state remains available to families, and covered by Medicaid.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2023
  • More than half of Georgia births are covered by Medicaid.
    Ariel Hart, ajc, 13 July 2023
  • Many of those who lost coverage had incomes that were too high to qualify for Medicaid or had aged out of the program.
    Noah Weiland, New York Times, 3 June 2024
  • The bulk of the spending in her new bill, roughly $2.1 billion, would go toward covering costs in MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program.
    Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • And the answer is: Medicaid, the program that many politicians dream of cutting into oblivion.
    Parker Smith, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The bill calls for work requirements for Medicaid, food stamps, and cash assistance programs—which would barely make a dent in U.S. debt.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 May 2023
  • The new debt ceiling deal has no changes to Medicaid and fully funds medical care for veterans.
    ABC News, 28 May 2023
  • All Medicaid plans and most large employers cover at least a portion of mental health care, too, according to the APA.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Moyle said lawmakers will need to wait to see whether the Medicaid bill causes problems that cannot be resolved by the executive branch in the coming months.
    Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The social worker explained that the family had no health insurance and would have to apply for Medicaid.
    Maggie Jones, New York Times, 17 May 2023
  • Those who were asked to leave were using Family Care (Medicaid) funding.
    Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The new law is banking on a waiver from the federal government to spend federal funds earmarked for Medicare, Medicaid, and the like on a new state-run health plan.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • In our case, Medicaid also required my cousin to obtain a new power of attorney.
    Dawn Alley, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But the nation's only Medicaid program that makes recipients meet a work requirement is off to a very slow start.
    The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The state’s two Catholic bishops sent a letter to lawmakers and Reeves in February calling for the Medicaid expansion.
    Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 22 June 2023
  • The goal is to get the device approved by regulators so that it can be prescribed by doctors through the National Health Service or Medicaid.
    Amit Katwala, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • States that didn’t comply couldn’t get higher federal Medicaid match rates, worth billions for Texas.
    Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
  • The state also had fewer people living below the poverty line and receiving food stamps and Medicaid.
    Megan Banta, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Now, states will again be allowed to go through their Medicaid enrollment rolls and withdraw coverage.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Number one is for spending down to qualify for Medicaid.
    Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2023
  • With it, the 5-month-old, whose first name is Justyce, can get a social security card, health care through Medicaid and benefits she’s entitled to receive.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
  • The predatory American healthcare system is about to encounter new prey in the form of millions of families thrown off Medicaid rolls.
    Cynthia A. Fisher, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The in-person events double as a mini vendor fair where residents can sign up for Medicare, Medicaid or FoodShare.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024

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