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Rosemary Stevens, “ ‘A Poor Sort of Memory’: Voluntary Hospitals and Government before the Depression,” The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, Health and Society 60 (1982): 558.
Medicare incorporated a prospective payment system in 1983, with federal programs paying a preset amount for a specific diagnosis in the form of Diagnostic Related Groups, or DRGs.
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Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine; Charles E. Rosenberg, The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).
By 1990, NHE accounted for 12.1 percent of GDP — the largest increase thus far in the history of healthcare.
Nancy G. Siraisi, Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
After a period of debate toward the end of 1993, Congress left for winter recess with no conclusions or decisions, leading to the bill’s quiet death.
Vern L. and Bonnie Bullough “Medieval Nursing,” Nursing History Review 1 (1993): 89-104.
Beginning in September 1995, seven MCOs (HealthCare USA, Care Partners, Mercy Health Plans, Community Care Plus, Prudential Health Care, Humana, and GenCare) served enrollees in the Eastern region counties of St Louis, St Charles, Jefferson, and Franklin and St Louis City.
Some of the larger not-for-profit corporations have bailed out public facilities through lease arrangements, such as the one between the Daughters of Charity’s Seton Medical Center and the public Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, that occurred in 1995.
In 1996, Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which established privacy standards for individuals.
An additional waiver modification was requested and approved to expand the MC+ Managed Care Program to the Western and Northwestern regions of the state in January 1997.
Two of the original MCOs (GenCare and Humana) withdrew in 1997.
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 drastically slashed Medicare home benefits, and as a result, the number of patient visits were reduced and 3000 home care agencies shut down.
GenCare and Blue Choice chose not to rebid their contracts that expired February 28, 1998.
Effective March 1, 1998, the participating MCOs were Care Partners, HealthCare USA, and Missouri Care.
Effective September 1, 1998 Missouri’s health insurance program for uninsured children known as "MC+ for Kids" began and was added as an additional mandatory target group.
Blue Advantage+ Plus and Community Health Plan chose not to contract with the State and all enrollees reverted back to Fee-For-Service on December 1, 1998.
In February 1999, the service area was expanded to include Henry and St Clair counties with the MCOs remaining the same.
Effective February 1, 2000, HealthCare USA purchased Prudential’s Medicaid business.
By the year 2000, NHE accounted for 13.3 percent of GDP — just a 1.2 percent increase over the past decade.
Contracts were rebid effective March 1, 2001.
In 2001, Civic Progress, an organization comprised of the leading corporate executives in St Louis, formed a task force to address the immediate funding crisis for the safety net.
Care Partners chose not to rebid their contract that expired December 31, 2002.
In 2002, alongside the State of Missouri, the RHC was able to implement the “St Louis Model” to bridge the gap left by multiple hospital closures.
A 2004 study found that one in five (22.9 million) United States households were involved in caring for a person older than eighteen.
Effective July 1, 2006, Mercy MC+ and Community CarePlus formed a new health plan called Mercy CarePlus.
February 1, 2007, HealthCare USA purchased FirstGuard Health Plan.
Effective September 1, 2007, Missouri’s Medicaid program was renamed MO HealthNet.
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, “Care of the Chronically Ill at Home: An Unresolved Dilemma in Health Policy for the Unites States,” Milbank Quarterly, 85(4) (December 2007): 611-39.
January 1, 2008, the following four counties were added to the MO HealthNet Western Managed Care region: Bates, Cedar, Polk and Vernon.
*Effective July 1, 2008, Blue-Advantage Plus of Kansas City excluded pharmacy.
Effective October 1, 2008, Mercy CarePlus was renamed Molina Healthcare of Missouri.
The Eastern MO HealthNet Managed Care health plans providing services effective October 1, 2009 are as follows:
Nearly 10 years later, effective July 2010, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the Gateway to Better Health Demonstration to support the St Louis health care safety net.
In 2010, the Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH) announced its intent to close the Emergency Department and a phased closure of 50 inpatient psychiatric beds at the St Louis Metropolitan Psychiatric Center, the only public mental health hospital in the Eastern region.
Effective February 1, 2012, Children’s Mercy Family Health Partners in the Western Region of Missouri is no longer a participating Managed Care Health Plan because of a merger with HealthCare USA Health Plan.
The Western MO HealthNet Managed Care health plans providing services effective February 01, 2012 are as follows:
The first open enrollment season for the Marketplace started in October 2013, and it was rocky, to say the least.
A 2014 Survey of Gateway to Better Health Patients conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI) yielded the following results.
In 2014, the RHC launched a public awareness campaign to address the severe, long-term health risks of toxic stress and trauma in the St Louis region.
Nevertheless, 8 million people signed up for insurance through the ACA Marketplace during the first open enrollment season, with enrollment peaking in 2016 at 12.2 million (with 10 million of those receiving subsidies to help pay for insurance).
Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017, many have questioned what would happen with our healthcare system — specifically, what would happen to the ACA, since Donald Trump ran on a platform of “repealing and replacing” the bill.
Lastly, in August of 2017, the Trump administration significantly cut federal spending on advertising promoting awareness of the ACA exchanges, as well cut spending on ACA "navigators" who served to guide people through the enrollment process.
The campaign quickly became a community-wide effort to change the question from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What’s happened to you?”. In 2017, the initiative merged into its own nonprofit organization, Alive and Well Communities, providing service across Missouri and Kansas.
In January of 2018, the Trump administration allowed states to add work requirements to Medicaid, requiring beneficiaries to prove that they either work or go to school.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the ACA has covered an average of 11.3 million annually since its inception, though 8.5% of the United States population (roughly 27.5 million Americans) remain uninsured, as reported by the KKF in 2018.
Eliminating the penalty immediately caused insurance premiums to rise, even though the elimination of the penalty didn't go into effect until January of 2019.
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Hungry to notch a win on healthcare prior to the 2020 election, the Trump administration continues to push ahead on initiatives designed to reign-in healthcare costs.
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