Medicaid safety net shrinking, fallout expected

By Jaymie Baxley  When people qualify for Medicaid after a medical emergency, the program can currently reach back up to three months to pay for care they received before they applied — a safeguard that often prevents a hospital stay or ambulance ride from turning into lifelong debt. That protection is about to shrink. Beginning […] The post Medicaid’s retroactive safety net is shrinking — patients, hospitals could feel the fallout appeared first on North Carolina Health News.