{"id":1500,"date":"2026-04-08T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/repost-reclaiming-medicaid-from-mcos-in-maryland\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:23:00","slug":"repost-reclaiming-medicaid-from-mcos-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/repost-reclaiming-medicaid-from-mcos-in-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"REPOST: Reclaiming Medicaid from MCOs in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0<\/span>HOPE ZAMORA<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>ROHAN JAISWAL<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>AMANDA ANDRIESSEN<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>| April 3, 2026<\/p>\n

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ERIC WANG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER<\/p>\n

Zamora, Jaiswal and Andriessen advocate for the removal of MCOs in Medicaid.<\/p>\n

As medical students, we often witness the devastating effects of a broken health care system on our patients. Recently, one of us was caring for a young patient on Medicaid in the hospital who had been suffering from debilitating pain for over a year. For months, she struggled to identify in-network providers, bouncing from waitlist to waitlist for various specialists, growing increasingly frustrated by her inability to get appropriate care. When she was often referred to a new doctor or ordered a new diagnostic test, her Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) would inform her that the doctor was out-of-network or that the test was not covered, delaying her diagnosis and prolonging her suffering. She was ultimately diagnosed with cancer and required surgery for treatment. While she was thankfully able to receive this life-saving care, the impediments from her Medicaid MCO prolonged her pain, incurred significant health care costs and could have allowed her cancer to spread, necessitating extensive treatment and risking possible death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n
Source link www.progressivemaryland.org<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0HOPE ZAMORA\u00a0,\u00a0ROHAN JAISWAL\u00a0and\u00a0AMANDA ANDRIESSEN\u00a0| April 3, 2026 ERIC WANG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Zamora, Jaiswal and Andriessen advocate for the removal of MCOs in Medicaid. As medical students, we often witness the devastating effects of a broken health care system on our patients. Recently, one of us was caring for a young patient on Medicaid in the hospital who had been…","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}