By Modern Healthcare | October 14, 2013
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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. FULL STORY »
By Steven Ross Johnson | October 05, 2013
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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... FULL STORY »
By Steven Ross Johnson | October 01, 2013
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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. FULL STORY »
By Steven Ross Johnson | September 28, 2013
| Print Magazine
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... FULL STORY »
By Steven Ross Johnson
| September 27, 2013
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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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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... FULL STORY »
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 12, 2013
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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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | June 29, 2013
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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,... FULL STORY »
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