Showing posts with label medicaid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicaid. Show all posts
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Florida Legislature Passes Medicaid Reform | Sunshine State News

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Florida's Medicaid program will likely undergo fundamental and historic changes in the coming years, as the state Legislature passed a ...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Patients Are Not Consumers - NYTimes.com

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Earlier this week, The Times reported on Congressional backlash against the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a key part of efforts to r...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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Friday, April 1, 2011

Cuts Leave Patients With Medicaid Cards, but No Specialist to See - NYTimes.com

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Eight-year-old Draven Smith was expelled from school last year for disruptive behavior, and he is being expelled again this year. But his m...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Don't cut Medicaid, fund it better - CNN.com

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Editor's note: Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the direc...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Hospitals Could Save Millions By Eliminating Five Hospital-Acquired Conditions

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An average 200-bed hospital could save approximately $2 million annually if it eliminates common but high-cost hospital-acquired conditions...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Governors: Medicaid More A Budget Buster Than Ever : NPR

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The federal government and the states have shared the cost of Medicaid, the health insurance program for some 60 million low-income America...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Medicaid chief: Single payer may be better than ‘devil-may-be’ market

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A senior Patrick administration health care official said Friday that a single payer system may work more effectively and efficiently than...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Obama administration asks states to cut costs without dropping Medicaid coverage

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By Marilyn Werber Serafini Kaiser Health News Tuesday, February 22, 2011; 12:58 PM The Obama administration is deploying squa...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

CMS Initiative Will Link Incentives With Reduced Infections, Readmissions - California Healthline

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CMS is planning a "major multi-year financial commitment" involving Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers that aims to curb hos...
Friday, January 7, 2011

More young people are winding up in nursing homes - Yahoo! News

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Adam Martin doesn't fit in here. No one else in this nursing home wears Air Jordans. No one else has stacks of music videos by 2Pac and...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Guides help recovering patients find long-term care | The Salt Lake Tribune

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An uncomfortable truth for anyone facing disability for a year or more: If you go into a nursing home, you might never get out. Under pa...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients

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Effective at the beginning of October, Arizona stopped financing certain transplant operations under the state’s version of Medicaid . ...