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H/T The Dillard Doctrine Today's Virginian-Pilot reports that one of the provisions under consideration to fund HR 3962-the healthcare bill that will be voted on in the House tomorrow-is a reduction in supplemental Medicaid payments to hospitals that serve a substantial amount of poor and uninsured patients. One of the hospitals that could lose funding under this bill is Children's Hospital of The...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency) has previewed the first phase of Florida’s free, Internet-based personal health record, My Florida Health eBook and My Florida eBaby Book. Florida is the first state to offer free personal health records for Medicaid recipients, which was made possible through an innovative partnership between the...
Phil Williams, interim deputy secretary for Medicaid at AHCA, just got an earful from senators on the health care appropriations committee who learned that the company hired last year to collect an estimated $120-million in Medicaid overpayments has so far...
As a Democratic Congress looks more and more likely to expand Medicaid eligibility – and therefore increase costs for states (more here on the $1 billion estimate) – the Republicans who control the state Legislature are chafing and talking behind...
Dozens of Michigan nursing homes, hospices, dental offices and hospitals have encountered problems with two new state Medicaid computer programs, including payment errors, lengthy reimbursement lags and delays enrolling patients in the Medicaid program.
A national survey shows that although the majority of state Medicaid programs offer coverage for some form of tobacco-dependence treatment, most fall far short of a stated mandate to provide unrestricted access to approved therapies.
News outlets report on a variety of health care issues at the state level including the cost of health care reform in Florida, widespread budget cuts in Nebraska, a hand-washing initiative in Maryland as well as some hospital and VA-related developments.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia have intervened in a False Claims Act suit in the Western District of Virginia against the Medicaid providers Universal Health Services Inc., Keystone Marion LLC and Keystone Education and Youth...
For the poor and frail elderly--among the most vulnerable in the nation--the headlines are terrifying: "Seniors May Lose In-Home Care Aid," "Budget Cuts Threaten Elderly,"...
An elderly Michigan woman died in October as the result of a severe dental infection after adult dental Medicaid benefits were cut in the state. WRH permalink
The White House just issued this statement. The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, a bill that represents a critical milestone in the effort to reform our health care system. H.R. 3962 will provide needed insurance reforms for Americans with insurance, expand coverage for those who do not have insurance, lower costs for families...
I’ve been wondering when someone would point this particular fly of the hundreds covering the ointment that is healthcare reform in the form that it’s making its way through the Congress. Newt Gingrich and Texas Governor Rick Perry point out that the revisions to Medicaid in the bills will be ruinous to the states: Congress [...]
http://realhealthreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/mandating-health-insurance-constitutional/http://realhealthreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/mandating-health-insurance-constitutional/ It is typically American to wish to be independent in thought and action. That typical American attitude serves us all well most of the time. However, that attitude also carries with it a responsibility to accept the consequences...
http://realhealthreform.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/sgr-vote-in-senate-on-monday-being-closely-watched-by-physicians/ For many years Congress has avoided dealing with a nagging problem that has plauged Medicare and physicians – the SGR or sustainable growth rate formula. It is a complex formula by which CMS (Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services) comes up with an adjustment factor for the Medicare fee...
Hospitals using Sentri7 electronic surveillance improve scores up to 34% compared to 0.7% national average Bellevue, WA -- Sentri7, a clinical decision support system, has enabled numerous hospitals and health systems across the country to make great strides in improving patient safety with medication-related issues in multiple hospital departments. With Sentri7, clinicians have a single point of access
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