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'Arkansas Department of Human Services'

Governor unveils eclipse emergency management plans with state officials

A month out, state agencies are preparing for what Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism Secretary Shea Lewis said "has the potential to be the largest tourism event in the state's history." 
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Food banks now answering to the Department of Education

Food banks and pantries around the state recently realized a subtle change in their commodities program – it’s now administered through the Department of Education instead of the Department of Human Services. 
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Medicaid advocates deliver letters to offices of Cotton, Boozman and Sanders

The crew at Arkansas Community Organizations is resilient. Their latest move against the Medicaid disenrollments included hand delivering letters in the Arkansas Capitol.

Biden administration warns Arkansas, others on kicking people off Medicaid over paperwork

Arkansas's high rate of "procedural" closures "raises concerns that eligible individuals, including children, may be losing coverage," a CMS deputy director wrote to the state on Aug. 9.
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Another 82K Arkansans lost Medicaid in July due to end of pandemic-era eligibility

The July number brings the total number of Arkansas Medicaid closures since April to around 300,000. As in other states, many of the people in Arkansas who lost coverage may (or may not) still be eligible, but the correct paperwork was never done to know for sure.

Disabled Arkansans obtain settlement and program improvements in lawsuit against DHS officials

The state paid $460,000 to resolve a federal lawsuit filed by three disabled plaintiffs who receive at-home Medicaid services under the ARChoices waiver program.
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States trim 4 million from Medicaid and Arkansas is among those leading the way, WaPo reports

Every state is "unwinding" pandemic-era Medicaid eligibility rules at the moment, but some are handling it more carefully than others. Arkansas is not among the cautious.

Sex, therapy, isolation: Concerns pile up in Arkansas’s juvenile lockups

Kids in Arkansas’s youth lockups over the last year were sexually assaulted, denied access to requisite therapy services and improperly isolated for extended periods, an Arkansas Advocate investigation found.
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Arkansas's 2018 Medicaid work requirement debacle holds lessons for Georgia as it rolls out similar policy

Arkansas told federal Medicaid authorities its new proposal is nothing like the "burdensome" 2018 work requirement. "DHS heavily considered the lessons learned," the agency said.

Politico digs into stories of Arkansans booted from Medicaid by state's hasty 'unwinding' process

More personal stories of human hardship wrought by the state's rapid rollback of pandemic-era Medicaid rules.
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Federal officials are keeping a close eye on Arkansas's hasty Medicaid purge

Arkansas's move-fast-and-break-things approach to unwinding pandemic-era Medicaid rules could hurt families who've come to rely on the program.

Update: Arkansas Medicaid closed 69K more cases in May

The state Department of Human Services continues to "unwind" Medicaid coverage for tens of thousands of people, meaning they no longer have health care coverage.
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