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- Medicaid Spending Projected to Rise Much Faster Than the Economy, HHS Reports
- Cumulative Spending on Medicaid Benefits Projected to Reach $4.9 Trillion Over 10 Years WASHINGTON -- Under current law, spending on Medicaid is expected to substantially outpace the rate of growth in the U.S. economy over the next decade, according to a new annual report released today by the Centers...
- Research articles 2008-10-17
- Legal Opinions - U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals: October 14, 2008
- Administrative Law Medicaid funding regulations BOTTOM LINE: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not exceed its authority in promulgating regulations for state to follow in calculating post-eligibility income of nursing home residents. CASE: Md. Dep't. of Health and Mental Hygiene v. Centers...
- Research articles 2008-10-14
- Trial of interest in St. Louis Circuit Court ends before it begins
- A mistrial was declared Tuesday in a case being watched by lawyers from across the country. The lawsuit itself is similar to many filed around the country in recent years. The state of Missouri, through the attorney general's office, sued several pharmaceutical companies alleging their pricing patterns forced...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Drug costs in a Pa. dispute
- Gov. Rendell says he can save $95 million a year by changing the way Pennsylvania buys drugs for the massive Medicaid program. The administration wants to centralize drug purchasing, now handled by HMOs, within the Department of Public Welfare because the law allows the state to get far larger rebates...
- Research articles 2008-06-21
- Congress Still Ignores Entitlement Monster
- Congress is spending us into a hole. We hear about the cost of earmarks and the Iraq war. But what about "entitlements"? That's the government's ironic term for programs that transfer money from people who earned it to people who didn't. Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's...
- Research articles 2008-06-16
- Hospitals win reprieve on Medicaid regulations
- WASHINGTON AP -- Hospitals won a reprieve Friday from a change in Medicaid regulations that would trim hospital payments by an estimated $5 billion over the next five years. Hospitals filed a federal lawsuit in March to void the regulations. On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson...
- Research articles 2008-05-24
- Huge Farm Bill Heads Toward Passage
- Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill Need proof that Washington lawmakers are out of step with the American people? Consider .the farm bill, a Depression-era relic that heavily subsidizes America's agriculture. Agriculture Committee members have been negotiating with the White House to cultivate a version that the President...
- Research articles 2008-05-12
- Hurricane rebuilding and growth issues concern South Mississippi's legislators
- South Mississippi legislators see the just-ended 2008 legislative session as a mixed bag of issues addressed and those not addressed as the area's hurricane recovery continues. Those concerns continue to be the high cost of insurance, lack of affordable housing and the rebuilding of infrastructure. They, along with all other...
- Research articles 2008-04-28
- Fight over Medicaid rages on
- WASHINGTON -- Community pharmacy advocates are continuing to lobby members of Congress in an effort to get legislation enacted that would permanently stop the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS from slashing the reimbursements pharmacies receive for filling Medicaid prescriptions with generic drugs. "There is a high level...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
- CVS Caremark Corp. to Pay $36.7 Million to U.S., 23 States, & D.C. to Settle Medicaid Prescription Drug Fraud Allegations
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007, or TDD, +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark Corp. has agreed to pay $36.7 million to settle claims that the company from 2000 to 2006 improperly switched patients from the tablet version of...
- Research articles 2008-03-18
- Former Apria Chairman Brings Activist Style to Sprint
- Local Doctors Big in Statewide Trade Group; Molina Looking to Fill Medicare Void in Ohio HEALTHCARE The "break 'em down to build 'em up" - activist investing style of Ralph Whitworth, a former chairman and director of Lake Forest-based Apria Healthcare Group Inc., got some ink in Forbes...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- Medicaid changes to spark battles
- WASHINGTON -- The White House is facing yet another showdown with the Democratic-led Congress, this one over tweaks in a set of obscure rules that are understood by almost no one but could affect millions of low-income children and adults. In the past year, the administration has...
- Research articles 2008-03-09
- AHCA, Alliance Praise Bipartisan Johnson, Collins Letter Urging Rejection of Bush Medicare Cuts
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Katherine Lehman of AHCA, +1-202-898-2816, or Debra DeShong Reed of Alliance, +1-202-528-4214 Letter to Senate Budget Leaders Spotlights Perpetual Underfunding of Medicaid Skilled Nursing Facility Care; New Zogby Poll Shows 63% of Likely Voters Oppose Cutting Oldest Seniors Medicare-Financed Nursing Home Care WASHINGTON, March 3...
- Research articles 2008-03-03
- Economic stimulus package
- Congress reconvened in January amid intense discussion of an economic stimulus package to help soften the impact of the accelerating downturn, characterized by declining home prices, tightened credit, increased joblessness, stock market turmoil, and other signs of economic Weakness. With several human service programs receiving prominent attention as possible pack...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Former Nursing Home Executive/Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy and Tax Evasion Charges
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Kathy Colvin of the U.S. Department of Justice, +1-214- 659-8600, fax, +1-214-767-2898 FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gary R. Trebert, 57, pled guilty this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Bleil to two counts of an indictment that charged him with various offenses...
- Research articles 2008-02-27
- Letters to the editor
- Keep WIBW free It is a shame what WIBW is doing in demanding to be paid for its free signal. It is a public broadcaster and as such, everyone within the signal range should have access. Failing that, I am sure the FCC wouldn't make Cox...
- Research articles 2008-02-18
- How Many [Fill in the Blank] Does It Take to Change ... ?
- Variations of this joke have been around for years. One version is: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: Only one, but the lightbulb has to really want to change. This month's cover article on government procurement fraud tackles an ongoing and frustrating problem for taxpayers....
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- AMERIGROUP Executive Speaks Before Congress on 'Medicaid's Critical Role for Americans with Disabilities'
- To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Investors, Julie Loftus Trudell, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, +1-757-321-3597, or Media, Kent Jenkins, Jr., Senior Vice President, Media Relations, +1-202-218-4925, both of AMERIGROUP Corporation VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP) was invited to speak today before the U.S. House...
- Research articles 2008-01-16
- US blacks get inferior nursing home care to whites: studies
- WASHINGTON AFP — Elderly black Americans in nursing homes get worse care than that enjoyed by their white counterparts, researchers at an elite US university have found. "If you're black, you're much more likely to get your care in a nursing home that's not so good, relative to nursing...
- Research articles 2008-01-15
- MedPAC Again Fails to Evaluate Overall Economic Conditions in Assessing SNF Funding Requirements
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Debra DeShong Reed, +1-202-528-4214, or Amy Weiss, +1- 202-203-0448, both for Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care New NGA Report on Worsening State Budget Picture, Ongoing Medicaid Funding Crisis CitedWASHINGTON,Dec. 7/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Commenting on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commissions MedPAC draft recommendation that skilled nursing facilities SNFs should...
- Research articles 2007-12-07
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