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Presumptive Eligibility for Medicaid

A provision that allows providers to treat (and be reimbursed for) patients who they presume to be eligible for Medicaid, even if that patient is not yet enrolled (or is later deemed ineligible).

Obamacare

Commonly used political shorthand for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the 2010 health care reform law signed by President Obama; also referred to…