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Suhl businesses suspended from Medicaid

Maxus Inc. and Trinity Behavioral Health Services are being suspended as Medicaid providers by the Department of Human Services, DHS has announced. The companies are owned by Ted Suhl; the suspension comes after a former DHS employee pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy to bribe Suhl in response for inside agency information on facility reports. Suhl was not named in the information filed by the U.S. attorney's office with the federal court, but DHS has confirmed that Suhl was the "Person C" referred to in court filings.
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De-funding the Medicaid expansion “private option” in the fiscal session won’t be easy

Starting in October, low-income Arkansans will begin signing up for health insurance plans under the so-called “private option,” the state’s unique version of Medicaid expansion.
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DHS's controversial theory: private option $100s of millions cheaper than Medicaid expansion

Two big headlines from the DHS release of actuarial findings on expansion options yesterday. They project that 1) The "private option" saves $670 million to the state bottom line over ten years.

DHS releases actuarial numbers behind "private option" study

The Arkansas Department of Human Services last week released a summary of findings that expanding healthcare coverage via the "private option" would cost the feds less than 15 percent more than traditional Medicaid expansion, and could even come at no additional cost at all.
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Details of "private option" deal emerge in DHS letter to feds

Charlie Frago reported this morning (paywall) that DHS has sent a letter to the feds outlining some of the details of the proposed "private option" approach to expanding healthcare coverage in lieu of traditional Medicaid expansion.

Group objects to rules on religion in state-funded daycare

Americans United for the Separation for Church and State has formally responded to rules proposed by the Arkansas Department of Human Services on religious practices in pre-schools operated with tax money from the Arkansas Better Chance program.
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Should legislators vote on their own budgets?

I think that I heard Rep. Justin Harris pop up with an objection to routine approval to a budget bill.
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