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Medicaid Defined
A joint federal-state welfare program that pays for medical care for those with very low incomes. It will cover nursing home costs and some very limited home health care but only after most assets and income have been exhausted. Being on Medicaid may reduce or limit the choice of nursing homes. Called Medi-Cal in California.
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Medicare 'doughnut hole' leads some elderly to forgo medicine
Published August 21, 2008, 12:15 pm, The Pantagraph
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions stop taking their medicine when faced with picking up the entire cost of their prescriptions, researchers say.
Olver's rival says health-care law not working
Published August 21, 2008, 11:40 am, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
LEOMINSTER - War veteran and congressional candidate Nathan Bech met with Leominster residents outside UMass Memorial HealthAlliance - Leominster Campus yesterday to talk about his plans to lower health care costs and to increase its availability for everyone.
Massachusetts faces huge costs from health law: Moody's
Published August 21, 2008, 11:17 am, Reuters via Yahoo! News
The costs of Massachusetts' pioneering health-care are rising at an unsustainable rate, ratings agency Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday, two years after the state became the first in the nation with near-universal health insurance.
Medicare gap leads some elderly to discontinue medicine
Published August 21, 2008, 11:17 am, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WASHINGTON — Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions stop taking their medicine when faced with picking up the entire cost of their prescriptions, researchers say. About 3.4 million older and disabled people hit a gap, known as the doughnut hole, in their Medicare drug coverage in 2007. When that happened, they had to pay the entire costs of their ...
News and Features for Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Published August 21, 2008, 10:57 am, The Observer
Sandoval County Board of Finance meets at 5:30 p.m. followed by the commissioner’s regular board meeting at 6 p.m. today in the County Commission Chambers, Bernalillo.
Health Care on the Mississippi, Part III
Published August 21, 2008, 10:46 am, Columbia Journalism Review
This is the third in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people who live in Helena, Arkansas, and how the press could cover that angle.
Pharmacy owner accused of buying scripts from AIDS patients
Published August 21, 2008, 10:45 am, The Jersey Journal
A Jersey City pharmacy owner has pleaded guilty to preying on the seriously ill by buying prescriptions from HIV/AIDS patients, not giving them their medicine, and then billing Medicaid as if he had dispensed the drugs, officials said.
News in brief
Published August 21, 2008, 10:19 am, Holmen Courier
Here are a selection of brief news items from this week's paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn't make it in the paper.
County Democrats hold Donkey Days celebration
Published August 21, 2008, 9:49 am, The Tomah Journal
Monroe County Democratic Party chairman Steven Williams remembers a time when party activism in the county had all but fizzled out. But in 2006, Williams and several other Democratic Party supporters reorganized the Monroe County Democrats, and at the organization’s third-annual Donkey Days of August celebration on Thursday at Evans-Bosshard Park, there was plenty of optimism.
Gov. hears Calloway concerns
Published August 21, 2008, 8:48 am, Murray Ledger & Times
What is the state doing to provide affordable health care to residents, better access to educational opportunities, more good-paying jobs and help for those providing care to the elderly and disabled at home?
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Wed Aug 20
- HCSR Family Physicians Hail Patient Care Benefits; Court Order Overturns Medi-Cal Payment Cuts | TradingMarkets .com 08.20.08: Family physicians today are commending Monday's order by a federal district judge that overturned the State of California 9;s 10% cut in fees to physicians who see the 6.5 million patients covered by the Medi-Cal program. "The judge agreed with our evidence that patients would suffer if the payment cuts were allowed to stand," said Jeffrey Luther, MD, president of the 7,000-member California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP). The physicians learned of the ruling late yesterday.
- Federal Judge Orders Temporary Halt to Medi-Cal Payment Cuts | California Healthline 08.20.08: A U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles temporarily blocked a 10% cut to Medi-Cal reimbursements for doctors, dentists, pharmacies and other health care providers, the Sacramento Bee reports. Medi-Cal is California 9;s Medicaid program (Yamamura/Sand ers, Sacramento Bee, 8/20).
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- Court rejects California's Medi-Cal cuts: A federal judge has ordered a temporary halt in the state's 10 percent reduction in Medi-Cal reimbursement rates, improving access to care for 6.5 million low-income patients but throwing a new wrench in already difficult budget negotiations.
Tue Aug 19
Mon Aug 18
- Medicare buoyed by demo success after audits collect $700 million | American Medical News 08.18.08: A limited three-year trial of a new type of Medicare auditor hired to track down overpayments to hospitals, physicians and others restored nearly $700 million to the program's coffers even after paying the contractors 39; expenses, according to a July report. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which released the report, is preparing to phase in a permanent, nationwide version of the initiative ordered by Congress.
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- "Budget Impasse Halts Medi-Cal Payments": Medicaid, Ventura County Star (CA), August 17, 2008
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