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10 min ago | MLive.com

Eric Baerren: Medicaid expansion makes sense to everyone except the GOP 'Party of No'

The poor often rely on expensive emergency care, and the cost is passed on to all consumers.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Medicare

4 hrs ago | KSL-TV

Report: Medicaid expansion comes with 'significant' costs to taxpayers

No matter how it's sliced or diced, Medicaid expansion will cost the state and taxpayers, but it might also provide a savings for at least a few years and serve as a boost to the local economy.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, Utah Government, Utah, US Governors, Gary Herbert

Thu May 23, 2013

Arkansas Times

Details emerge on Arkansas 'private option' for Medicaid expansion

The House and Senate Public Health committees met today to hear updates on the "private option" plan for expanding healthcare coverage.

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Related Topix: Arkansas, Healthcare Law, Arkansas Government, Law, Health, Health Insurance

Bloomberg

Sloane: Help 9 Million Students Now or Pay Medicaid Later

The myth is that the U.S. should be doing a better job of preparing underprivileged high school students, so they can win scholarships to Yale, Harvard and other top schools.

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Related Topix: Health, Education Etc., Princeton, NJ, Dartmouth College, Williams College, Tufts University

Seattle Times

GOP Ariz. rep. who supports Medicaid is threatened

A Republican member of the Arizona House who supports GOP Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid received an obscene and threatening voicemail at her office, a sign that the rancorous debate over embracing a signature component of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in the state is far from over.

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Related Topix: Health, US News, US Governors, Jan Brewer, US Politics, Barack Obama, Phoenix, AZ

Benton Courier

Ark. to submit 'private option' waiver in August

Arkansas Medicaid officials say the state will submit its request to use federal money to purchase private insurance for thousands of low-income residents by August.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, Arkansas, Arkansas Government

Bangor Daily News

LePage delivers instant veto after Senate passes bill on hospital debt, Medicaid

Gov. Paul LePage handed down an instant veto Thursday, minutes after the Senate gave final passage to a bill that links repayment of Maine's hospital debt to an expansion of the state's Medicaid program.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, US Governors, Paul LePage, Maine, US News

The Robesonian

Senate OKs budget after bickering

The North Carolina Senate gave initial approval Wednesday to a state budget proposal after a fierce partisan debate in which Democrats accused the plan's Republican authors of choosing tax reductions over restoring cuts to education, health and rural development.

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Related Topix: US News, Healthcare Law, Law, Health, Pat McCrory, US Governors

Phoenix New Times

Is Governor Jan Brewer's Fight to Expand Medicaid Change Your Opinion About Her?

Governor Jan Brewer at a recent rally to push for the expansion of the Medicaid program as allowable under Obamacare.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Jan Brewer, Health

Politico

Clock ticking on Medicaid funds

States still mired in the fight over the Obamacare Medicaid expansion are starting to give up on their first year of full funding - and it's unclear whether they would be able to tap into the money before 2015.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, US Governors, Tom Corbett, Mary Fallin, Gary Herbert

Detroit News

Different visions doom merger of Henry Ford, Beaumont

Two of the region's largest health care systems, Henry Ford and Beaumont, have scrapped plans for a merger that would have created a 10-hospital system serving as much as 40 percent of the area's patients.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Health

Wed May 22, 2013

Inside Bay Area

Feds take over California high-risk insurance program

About 17,000 Californians with serious medical problems will be moved from a state-run stopgap health insurance program to a federal plan starting in July, ensuring they will have no break in medical coverage until the national health care reforms kick in next year, state officials announced this week.

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Related Topix: California, Health Insurance, Health, California Government, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare

Livonia Observer

Incentives push doctors to electronic medical records

More than half of doctors' offices and 80% of hospitals that provide Medicare or Medicaid will have electronic health records by the end of the year, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, 9

Ledger-Enquirer.com

Russell County Sheriff: Beware Medicare, Medicaid scams targeting elderly

Russell County citizens should be cautious of callers claiming to represent Medicare or Medicaid, due to a foreign scam which has increasingly targeted elderly residents during the past two months, according to the Russell County Sheriff's Office.

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Related Topix: Medicare, Health, Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen), Social Security, Personal Finance

UnionLeader.com

Charles Arlinghaus: On Medicaid expansion, the right answer is, 'not yet'

Like most states in the country, New Hampshire is having a difficult time answering the question about whether to expand Medicaid coverage.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, New Hampshire, Opinion

Dallas Morning News

Who to blame for Texas rejecting Medicaid? Gov. Perry's - just one man...he's not God.'

Gov. Rick Perry gets most of the credit or blame, depending on your point of view, for Texas' refusal to expand Medicaid.

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Related Topix: Health, Texas Government, Texas, Rick Perry, US Governors

Lexington Herald-Leader

Doctor shortage to worsen under Medicaid expansion

That's the conclusion of Deloitte Consulting, a technology firm that's helping to set up the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange.

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Related Topix: Health, Steve Beshear, US Governors

WLOS

Audit: NC Medicaid claims system untested, flawed

An audit of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services says it has failed to fully test a new $484 million computer system scheduled to begin processing Medicaid claims on July 1. The report issued by the office of State Auditor Beth Wood raises serious questions about the process used to affirm the complex NCTracks software will be ... (more)

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Related Topix: Health, North Carolina Government, North Carolina

KRCR

Data: Huge disparity in Medicare payment rates

Get a hip replaced at Olympia Medical Center in Los Angeles, and Medicare will pay the small, doctor-owned hospital $15,585, or about 13% of what Olympia charged in the bills it submitted.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health

Law Firm Newswire

Sequestration Affects Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursements

This March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that the Medicare FFS Program is slated for a reduction in payments due to the sequestration order which was recently signed into law.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, Medicine, Cancer, Oncology