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The Texas Tribune: Medicaid Fraud Push Gets Results but Angers Doctors
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 months ago
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Erich Schlegel for The Texas Tribune Douglas Wilson, left, with his deputy, Jack Stick, has approached Medicaid cases from an accounting background. The division, charged with investigating fraud among health care providers paid to treat impoverished
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Utah guv's adviser shares principles, no details, on health reform
Taylorsville :: UT :: USA | 10 months ago
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Any adopted programs, benefits or regulations should be state-led, Norm Thurston told the Legislative Health Reform Task Force...Cost is a factor because no matter how good an idea, lawmakers have to ask, can we afford it? "And we have to ask, What
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Alcohol tax funds boost long-term care services in Maryland
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | 10 months ago
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Keeping seniors and those with disabilities in their communities and closer to their families leads to a higher quality of life," said Lt...Brown, in a statement. "These funds will help us expand access to home and community-based care so more
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Idaho hires former Utah governor's firm to study Medicaid expansion
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 10 months ago
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Gov. Butch Otter hasn't made up his mind yet on whether Idaho should add tens of thousands of low-income residents to Medicaid...Leavitt Partners was hired in May under a $99,000 contract to draft a report on Idaho's possible Medicaid expansion,
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The Medicaid expansion and political choice
Jackson :: MS :: USA | 10 months ago
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If Medicaid isn't your business, you may be tempted to ignore the implications of the current kerfuffle over whether or not states should accept free money to expand Medicaid...As all-powerful and influential as Medicare has become, the Medicaid
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WellPoint's gamble on Medicaid all about the future
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
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It's also an indication that private insurers expect cash-strapped states increasingly to give them the job of managing medical plans for low-income people. That could further complicate efforts to overhaul the costly Medicaid entitlement program as
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State sharply lowers cost estimate of Medicaid expansion
Georgetown :: TX :: USA | 11 months ago
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On the heels of Gov. Rick Perry 's declaration that Texas will not expand Medicaid because it is too costly, his health and human services commissioner said Thursday that fully implementing health care reform would cost the state about $11 billion
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PERRY: We need real reform, not more Medicaid
Perry :: GA :: USA | 11 months ago
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Expecting to extend quality health care access to millions of Americans by pressing them into the existing Medicaid system is a little like expecting to win the Indy 500 in a 1965 Chevy Corvair...A fundamental flaw in the Obama administration's
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I'm Leaning Toward "Haslam Implements the Medicare Expansion"
Nashville :: ME :: USA | 11 months ago
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These stories have kind of changed me from not having even a clue what the governor would do to thinking that this is going to happen. As the Commercial Appeal explains , implementing this is not going to be cheap...Under the Affordable Care Act, the
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Expanding Medicaid makes all kinds of sense
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 11 months ago
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Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act last month, it also gave states the right to opt out of the expansion of Medicaid, the program that could provide healthcare for up to 2 million more low-income Texans, starting in 2014. Republican
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