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Trending News Today: Thousands Mistakenly Enrolled During California Medicaid Expansion

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Cigna announced that it has reduced opioid use among its customers by 25%, according to The Hill. Two years ago, the health insurer began capping prescriptions for short-acting opioids for acute pain to 15 days, and will soon limit this further to 7 days, according to the article. In May 2016, Cigna initiated efforts to reduce opioid use by identifying measures it could implement, including notifying physicians when it appeared a patient might be misusing or overusing opioids and convening more than 2000 medical groups to reduce opioid prescribing, The Hill noted.

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An estimated 450,000 individuals who may not have been eligible for Medicaid coverage were mistakenly enrolled during Medicaid expansion in California, according to Kaiser Health News. In a report released by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the HHS inspector general estimated that California spent $738.2 million on 366,078 expansion beneficiaries who were ineligible. Auditors said that it spent an additional $416.5 million for 79,055 expansion enrollees who were “potentially” ineligible, according to the article.

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