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States refusing Medicaid expansion leave 5.2M poor people without coverage, lose out on $555M

By Harris Meyer | October 16, 2013

Two new studies highlight the heavy impact that state decisions not to expand Medicaid under the federal healthcare reform law will have on low-income Americans and community health centers that serve them.
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Forrest Health expects $2.5M loss from US cuts

By Associated Press | September 15, 2013

The Forrest Health hospital system, Hattiesburg, Miss., is expecting its first red ink since 2007.
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Miss. Hospital Association hiring new president

By Associated Press | August 24, 2013

The president of North Mississippi Medical Center-Tupelo is leaving the job he has held since mid-July.
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Adult obesity very high in 13 states; many in the South

By Mike Stobbe / Associated Press | August 16, 2013

Adult obesity still isn't budging, the latest government survey shows. The national telephone survey found 13 states with very high rates of obesity last year. Overall, the proportion of U.S. adults deemed obese has been about the same for years now.
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Delta states get $5.4M in grants to target chronic disease

By Steven Ross Johnson | August 12, 2013 | Basic Web

A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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Humana to sell policies in unserved Miss. counties

By Jeff Amy / Associated Press | July 19, 2013

All Mississippians will have at least one insurance option on the new federal online marketplace when it starts enrolling customers in October.
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Reform Update: Providers likely to feel pressure as Medicaid gets new enrollees

By Rich Daly | June 25, 2013 | Basic Web

New Medicaid enrollees may be healthier than the program's current beneficiaries, but that is unlikely to relieve much of the pressure on providers as millions of newly covered patients seek care next year.
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Insurers may skip health plans in much of Miss.

By Jeff Amy / Associated Press | June 21, 2013

People in 36 of Mississippi's 82 counties may not be able to buy health insurance through the new federal online marketplace when it starts enrolling customers in October.
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Miss. gives $1M in aid to health overhaul call center

By Jeff Amy / Associated Press | May 31, 2013

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant rarely misses a chance to bash the federal healthcare overhaul as an unaffordable intrusion. But Thursday, he announced the state is giving $1 million to a federal contractor that will hire 1,000 Mississippians to help implement it.
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Reform Update: Proponents of Medicaid expansion weigh next moves

By Rich Daly | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web

As many state legislative sessions have finished or are nearing completion, advocates of expanding Medicaid eligibility are looking at their next steps.
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