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Medicaid managed care move gets final approval
TALLAHASSEE — The federal government gave final approval Friday to Florida's long-debated proposal to overhaul the Medicaid system by requiring beneficiaries statewide to enroll in HMOs and other types of managed-care plans. The decision was not...Tags: Kathleen Sebelius, Collective Contract, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Coventry Health Care Inc., Career and Workplace
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Editorial: Roseland Community Hospital needs to vastly improve quality of care to survive
Illinois officials hurried to the rescue of Roseland Community Hospital recently with an emergency infusion of $350,000. That was enough to keep the doors open a while longer at the distressed Far South Side hospital. You may wonder: Why is dead-broke...
Tags: Oak Forest, Government Health Care, Hospitals and Clinics, Medicaid, Roseland
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Freeman offers public option
HealthAs a Democrat in a Republican-controlled legislature being led by a Republican governor, state Rep. Bob Freeman can file any bill he wants. Getting them into law is a whole 'nother thing. But that didn't stop the reliably liberal Freeman, representing the... -
Boxer to push funding for health costs of uninsured immigrants
WASHINGTON—Sen. Barbara Boxer plans to push for Washington to provide $250 million and perhaps more to help local and state governments pay the cost of healthcare to uninsured immigrants who seek legal status under legislation now before the Senate....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Career and Workplace, Politics, Immigration
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Doctors brace for pain as 10% cut to Medi-Cal rates looms
In a office decorated with Chinese art and diagrams of body parts, Dr. George Ma cares for more than 4,000 patients. Nearly three-quarters are covered by Medi-Cal, the state's public insurance program for low-income Californians, and Ma said he receives...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Alzheimer's Disease, Dentistry and Dental Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Seminole mulls ban on hiring smokers
Smokers may be passed over for jobs in Seminole County schools. It's just in the earliest stages of discussion now. But the School Board is tossing around the idea of establishing a policy that says if you smoke, you don't get the job. What drove the...
Tags: Seminole County, Prices, Health and Safety at School, Health Insurance Cost
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Wasserman Schultz decries Medicaid coverage gap
A million Floridians will be left without health care coverage because of Florida’s decision to put its Medicaid patients on managed-care plans run by private insurance companies, South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz warned on...Tags: Weston (Broward, Florida), Rick Scott, Executive Branch, Government Health Care, Politics
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Michigan House may pass Medicaid expansion this week
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan might be closer to making 320,000 more low-income residents eligible for Medicaid next year after House Republicans dropped calls to end the health coverage for adults who have received benefits for four years. A new...
Tags: Poverty, Executive Branch, Rick Snyder, Politics, National Government
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Memorial adds new clinic
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- When patients check in at the front desk of the new Centennial Neighborhood Health Center, they might feel like they are standing on a front porch. Patients sit in a waiting room with actual deck planking beneath their feet and walk down...Tags: Human Interest, Government Health Care, Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Health and Medical Professionals
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Hagerstown pharmacist and owner of Russo's Rx pleads guilty to health care fraud
A Hagerstown pharmacist pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Baltimore to fraudulently selling powerful pain killers and billing Medicare and Medicaid for nearly $200,000 of the cost, the U.S. Department of Justice said. David Russo, 62, pleaded...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, OxyContin (drug), Medicare, Medicaid
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer pushes through Obama's Medicaid expansion
TUCSON — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer won a battle with state lawmakers this week, defying most other conservatives in her party to get a key component of President Obama’s Medicaid expansion through the Legislature. The Arizona Senate voted...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Politics, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
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Florida gets OK to move Medicaid patients into managed care
Florida has received federal approval to move approximately 2.9 million Medicaid recipients into managed-care programs as soon as next Jan. 1, Gov. Rick Scott's office announced today. It's a major victory for Scott and the Florida Legislature --...
Tags: Broward County, Rick Scott, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Government Health Care, Florida Legislature
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