Medicaid – Page 21 – Healthy Skeptic

Jun 04 2010

Modern Healthcare

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State financing for Medicaid declined an estimated 2.7% in fiscal 2010 as federal spending for the safety net insurer increased 17.2%

Jun 02 2010

Politico

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Senate Republicans are vowing to challenge Berwick’s nomination to run Medicare and Medicaid — just in time to resurrect the brutal yearlong health reform battle ahead of the midterm election

Jun 01 2010

StreetInsider.com

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Centene Corporation’s South Carolina subsidiary, Absolute Total Care, has completed the purchase of Columbia-based Carolina Crescent Health Plan (CCHP), the state’s largest non-profit Medicaid managed care organization

May 27 2010

Reuters

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A Kaiser study found that through 2019, federal spending on Medicaid will increase by at least $443.5 billion while states will see an increase of only $21.1 billion

May 27 2010

Washington Post

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The federal government will bear virtually the entire cost of expanding Medicaid under the new health-care law, according to a comprehensive new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation

May 21 2010

HealthLeadersMedia

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Unlike RACs, MICs (Medicaid Integrity Program audits) have proceeded largely under the radar of many organizations. As a result, providers may be surprised and unprepared

May 10 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The new health law gives states frontline responsibility for setting up an untried system of “exchanges” – this program is highly coercive and raises a constitutional problems

Apr 27 2010

New York Times

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Of all the changes wrought by the new health care law, none is more sweeping than the transformation of Medicaid

Apr 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The changes to Medicaid rebates that are paring some drug companies’ sales and earnings may also cut into already-ailing state budgets

Apr 21 2010

UnitedHealth Group’s Suggestions for Medicaid Savings

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The new health law greatly expands Medicaid and government spending. Figuring out how to keep that spending from breaking state budgets will be difficult. A large national health plan company…

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Apr 15 2010

UnitedHealth

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UnitedHealth: States and the federal government can save an estimated $366 billion over the next decade by modernizing Medicaid, according to a new report by UnitedHealth Group’s Center for Health Reform & Modernization

Apr 15 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The managed-care industry is gearing up to go after one of the biggest new markets to be created by the new federal health-care law: the roughly 16 million new people eligible Medicaid

Apr 14 2010

Washington Post

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D.C. officials say the city will save millions of dollars from the recently approved federal health-care bill as it starts transferring childless adults from a city-backed insurance program to Medicaid

Apr 12 2010

Washington Times

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Consensus is Congress will provide higher Medicaid reimbursements to states for six months past the December expiration but broader round of spending is unlikely.

Apr 07 2010

Kaiser Health News

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While doctors are worrying a lot about whether Congress will block the 21 percent scheduled cut in Medicare payments, a fix to Medicaid payments is raising another question – under the new law, the Medicaid raise may only last two years

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