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Mercy to transfer Ark. hospital to CHI
By Modern Healthcare | October 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Four months after dropping a deal with a different suitor because of regulatory hurdles, Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy health system plans to transfer its Hot Springs, Ark., hospital and physician clinic to Catholic Health Initiatives.
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Private Medicaid option | Some states eye Ark. alternative expansion model
By Steven Ross Johnson | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The Obama administration's recent approval of Arkansas' alternative plan to expand healthcare coverage for low-income residents under the federal healthcare reform law bodes well for several Republican-led states looking to implement their own alternative...
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Reform Update: CMS' approval of Ark. Medicaid expansion plan bodes well for other states
By Steven Ross Johnson | October 01, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Obama administration's approval last week of Arkansas' plan to expand Medicaid bodes well for several Republican-led states looking to implement their own alternative models for expanding Medicaid.
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Late News: CMS grants Ark. waiver for Medicaid expansion
By Steven Ross Johnson | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Look for more states to warm to some sort of Medicaid expansion now that the Obama administration proved it will bend to get states on board. On Friday, the CMS granted Arkansas a Medicaid waiver allowing the state...
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Feds OK Arkansas' plan for Medicaid expansion
By Steven Ross Johnson | September 27, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Obama administration will allow Arkansas to move forward with a widely watched plan to expand Medicaid to cover an additional 200,000 residents by giving most of them premium assistance for plans in the state health insurance exchange.
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Ark. lawmakers divided on health defunding idea
By Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press | September 01, 2013
After elections where Republicans took all but one of Arkansas' seats in Washington by campaigning against the federal health overhaul, the state's GOP congressmen and senator are now split over whether to tie that law's defunding to budget negotiations this fall.
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Ark. GOP grapples with health law fight
By Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press | August 17, 2013
Lt. Gov. Mark Darr and state House Majority Leader Bruce Westerman won office three years ago riding an anti-Obama wave, with both vowing to kill the president's signature healthcare law. Now that they're both seeking a south Arkansas congressional seat, the two rivals are clashing over who hates...
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Delta states get $5.4M in grants to target chronic disease
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 12, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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W.Va. tops in per capita promotion of health law
By John Raby / Associated Press | July 25, 2013
More is being spent per capita in West Virginia than any other state to promote public awareness of the new healthcare reform law, but advocates are concerned that those who could benefit most still won't get enrolled.
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Regional News/South: HMA set to acquire Bert Fish Medical Center
By Modern Healthcare | June 29, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla.—Health Management Associates is on its way to forging its third deal this year after it was selected to begin negotiations with Bert Fish Medical Center. The public Southeast Volusia Hospital District chose Naples,...
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