Washington Apple Health is the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs offered in Washington state. The program was initiated January 1, 2014.[1] It was preceded in 2008 by a children's health plan run by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services called "Apple Health for Kids".[2] In 2016, the plan was ordered by a Federal district court judge to include a coverage treatment with a certain drug for Hepatitis C to all 28,000 patients with the disease, not only those who qualified based on degree of liver damage.[3]

References

  1. ↑ John Webster (July 23, 2013), "STATE TRIES TO SIMPLIFY MEDICAID Apple Health Program Aims to Reduce Sign-Up time, ER Trips", The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA
  2. ↑ DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES LAUNCHES NEW APPLE HEALTH FOR KIDS - NEW INITIATIVE TO BOOST ENROLLMENT IN CHILDREN'S MEDICAL COVERAGE (press release), Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, March 10, 2009, archived from the original on November 21, 2018
  3. ↑ JoNel Aleccia (May 28, 2016), "Judge orders Washington Medicaid to provide lifesaving hepatitis C drugs for all", The Seattle Times


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