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Va. Medicaid panel faces contentious task
By Bob Lewis, Associated Press | March 03, 2013
There are blue-ribbon commissions and task forces in Virginia government that have done little more than huddle in conference rooms and pack hundreds of pages of dense bureaucratic jargon into binders set on backroom bookshelves or in forgotten archives boxes. There they gather dust for generations.
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Perry standing pat on Medicaid expansion
By Chris Tomlinson, Associated Press | March 02, 2013
If Texas Gov. Rick Perry is feeling pressure to expand healthcare coverage to more than 1.5 million people under Medicaid, he sure isn't showing it.
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Hospice use increases but aggressive care still common: study
By Melanie Evans | February 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Fewer seniors died in hospitals during the past decade and the use of hospice increased, but more elderly were also hospitalized within a month of dying or moved within days of death, research shows.
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Calif. providers see long fight over Medicaid pay
By Andis Robeznieks | January 17, 2013
Some California healthcare providers first reacted positively to Gov. Jerry Brown's $98 billion budget proposal, which called for the state to contribute an additional $350 million to Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program. But a closer look also showed that Brown is going forward with a plan to...
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Court ruling clears Ohio to pen Medicaid contracts
By Associated Press | January 02, 2013
Ohio is prepared to move forward with certain Medicaid contracts after a court ruled in the state's favor in a dispute over how the contracts were awarded.
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Nolte named CEO of Sutter health plan
By Modern Healthcare | December 13, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Sutter Health, a 24-hospital not-for-profit system based in Sacramento, Calif., named Stephen Nolte CEO of its health plan, which is under development and is expected to begin marketing HMO products next fall.
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Include Medicare, Medicaid cuts in deficit deal: Durbin
By Rich Daly | November 27, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Medicare and Medicaid cuts should be included in a grand bargain that cuts future federal deficits by $4 trillion over the next 10 years, Assistant Majority Leader Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in an address to a liberal advocacy group.
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Alabama Medicaid faces $30 million shortfall
By Associated Press | November 26, 2012
Alabama's top health officer says state Medicaid is facing a major funding shortfall.
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Accountable care group formed for U. of Calif. employees
By Maureen McKinney | November 13, 2012
Four San Francisco hospitals, a physicians group and a managed-care organization have entered into an accountable care agreement targeting healthcare for University of California employees who live or work in the surrounding Bay Area.
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Insurers nervous over prospect of Romney victory
By Associated Press | October 29, 2012
You'd think health insurance CEOs would be chilling the bubbly with Republican Mitt Romney's improved election prospects, but instead they're in a quandary.
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