Medicaid News

Here's how the state's members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Friday, May 17.

Jim Stott, co-owner of Stonewall Kitchen, left, speaks about once needing a bone marrow transfusion and wonders, if he didn't have health insurance at the time, what would have been the outcome.

By Eric Boehm | PA Independent HARRISBURG - Democratic leaders in the General Assembly say Gov.

Bayonne Medical Center charges the most expensive prices in the nation, according to information from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

May 8, 2013 - Now that the federal government is building health insurance Marketplaces in 34 states, the question is: Will customers come? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , the government division overseeing the roll out of the new Marketplaces, is getting ready.

The average cost of a a CT scan in Howard County is more than twice the average cost of the procedure in Baltimore County, according to data from New Choice Health , a private company that encourages people to become smarter healthcare consumers.

Health and Human Services officials urged the committee to expand the program, which would add about 58,000 people to the rolls of the state-federal health insurance program.

Republicans must be getting nervous about their refusal to expand Medicaid in Montana.

On Wednesday, May 29 at 6:30pm at the Belfast Free Library , located at 106 High Street, the community is invited to a presentation with Kevin Lewis, CEO of Maine Community Health Options , a nonprofit organization that will provide affordable health insurance to Maine people and small businesses beginning in January 2014.

Florida's House and Senate worked as a team on some significant issues, including ethics reform, teacher pay raises and early voting, during the 2013 legislative session.

The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate on Thursday passed an $8.8 billion state budget that embraces a signature part of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul , with a handful of Republican members teaming up with Democrats to push through Gov.

White Plains, NY May 17, 2013 - The state of New York has several major public health insurance programs, including Medicaid, commonly known as "Regular Medicaid." While Regular Medicaid in New York offers extensive health care services including: dental care; diagnostic testing; home care; hospitalization; mental health support; out-patient care ... (more)

Recently, an article by Kate Baicker and colleagues came out in the New England Journal of Medicine .

It was not encouraging when, during a forum in Reidsville on how to deliver Medicaid to North Carolinians, state Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr.

In his Elder Law column, Daniel G. Fish, a principal in Daniel G. Fish LLC, writes that whether managed long-term care benefits seniors or benefits the plans that administer the care is an unresolved issue, but what is clear is that this program is already in effect and must be monitored closely.

The Illinois House is gearing up to consider a key part of President Barack Obama's health care law, an expansion of Medicaid that would provide coverage to low-income adults who don't have children at home.

Advocates for the needy continued their push for expanded government-backed health care Monday, distributing bracelets to state lawmakers that posed the question, "What Would Your Mother Do?" The latest in the continuing campaign for increasing Medicaid eligibility came a day after the annual holiday honoring moms and in conjunction with a study ... (more)

The Maine Hospital Association supports both concepts, but Republicans are angry about tying the two together and hospitals fear a LePage veto.

WMDT 47 News - New data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid System are causing quite a stir.

Calling the governor's proposal unacceptable and politically dead at the Legislature, House Speaker Andy Tobin unveiled his own new plan Tuesday to expand Medicaid, one that would give Arizona voters the final say.