Nevada Health Insurance

Nevada Health Insurance

Health insurance in Nevada. News on health insurance plans and coverage from Nevada. Updates on what the insurers and the government is doing to make health insurance affordable in Nevada. Family, individual, small business and group health insurance cove

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Nevada Medicaid Payments Will Face Further Cuts

Nevada physicians say a plan to reduce Medicaid hospital payments for inpatient services by 14% will lead more hospitals to eliminate services for beneficiaries, the AP/Las Vegas Sun reports. The cuts would be on top of 5% "across the board" inpatient care reductions announced earlier this year by the state Department of Health and Human Services, which resulted in larger cuts for certain services because the 5% is an average.

Recent Medicaid News In California, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada

Summaries of recent news about Medicaid programs in California, Maryland, Mississippi and Nevada appear below.

Nevada SCHIP Enrollment Increases By 9%

Enrollment in Nevada Checkup, the state's version of SCHIP, increased by 9% over the past year to 30,204 children.

Nevada, Mexico May Partner to Cover Mexican Immigrant Health Care Costs in the State

Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) and Mexican officials on Monday discussed creating a kind of health insurance program in Nevada that would allow Mexican immigrants to receive health care in the state that is paid for by the Mexican government