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New Jersey's top court says the state may legally deny Medicaid benefits to adult non-citizens who are in the United States legally but have been here less than five years. The state Supreme Court in a split decision released Monday affirmed a lower court ruling allowing the denial. The justices did not issue a new opinion in the case. (4/2)

A federal judge ordered Ohio officials on Thursday to reinstate Medicaid benefits for people in a lawsuit but denied a request to expand such relief to tens of thousands of others being terminated from the program. The decision comes in a case involving how the state's Medicaid agency "re-determines" the eligibility of recipients in the federal-state program. (Sanner, 4/2)

A federal court judge ordered Medicaid coverage continued or reinstated to several low-income Ohioans in a lawsuit against the state. U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley’s temporary restraining order issued on Thursday applies only to those who filed suit. He declined a request to reinstate health benefits to thousands of other Medicaid beneficiaries who have been tossed from the rolls during the state’s annual redetermination process. (Candisky, 4/2)

The state’s Medicaid program is cutting payment rates for doctors who provide pregnancy care, perform deliveries and women’s preventive services, leading medical groups and advocates to worry that it could become harder for low-income pregnant women to find doctors to treat them. (Levin Becker, 4/2)