article_snippet.sent: Medicaid denied her husband plea, and that's when the squabbling began.
article_snippet.sent: In a statement to CNN, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services pointed the finger at UPMC, saying the medical center had declined to enroll as a Medicaid provider.
article_snippet.sent: Medicaid policies allow for a simplified enrollment process for out-of-state providers in such situations," wrote the spokeswoman, Gwenda Bond.
article_snippet.sent: Should UPMC reverse UPMC decision and choose to enroll as a Kentucky Medicaid provider, the Department for Medicaid Services...will be happy to expedite a Kentucky Medicaid provider, the Department for Medicaid Services... application.
article_snippet.sent: UPMC counters that Medicaid told them that if them want to care for Katie, them would have to sign up hundreds of them doctors to accept Medicaid patients.
article_snippet.sent: While UPMC spokeswoman Wendy Zellner didn't elaborate, a hospital might be loathe to sign up for large-scale coverage of out-of-state Medicaid patients as payments under such programs are typically very low.
article_snippet.sent: Asking for hundreds of doctors to sign up to take Medicaid is "an unusually restrictive approach and contrary to single-case agreements that we have signed with other state Medicaid programs," UPMC spokeswoman Wendy Zellner wrote.
article_snippet.sent: It is up to Medicaid to address this situation.
article_snippet.sent: CMS is reaching out to the state agency to find a solution as soon as  possible.
article_snippet.sent: Medicaid has reached out to our to talk.
article_snippet.sent: So stay tuned," Medicaid wrote.