CMS last week approved Maine’s request to expand Medicaid...

...after more than a year of delays and political infighting. Maine voters originally approved expansion in November 2017, but the move was blocked by then-Gov. Paul LePage (R). The expansion, a campaign promise of current Gov. Janet Mills (D), will cover about 70,000 additional lives, a 27.2% increase in eligibility. Maine currently serves 256,900 Medicaid beneficiaries. Expansion coverage will be retroactive to July 2018.

From AIS’s Directory of Health Plans