House Votes Along Party Lines for Obama's $819 Billion Plan
Washington, DC returned to partisan politics as the House of Representatives passed an $819 billion economic stimulus package Wednesday on a ... to actually begin to spur job growth around the country.Relief to StatesIncrease Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage so states don't have to cut Medicaid [more...]
Date: 2009-01-29 05:14:00
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FMAPped
While it won't solve the state's budget deficit by itself, ... in Medicaid -- the federal health insurance program for the poor -- along with foster care and adoption ... a $320 million increase in federal Medicaid reimbursement payments will likely be an important [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 05:40:40
What Do You Believe Will Stimulate The Economy?
This is a list of what makes up the Economic Stimulus Plan according to Associated Press ... to health insurance for unemployed; providing coverage through Medicaid $90 billion Help to states with Medicaid $20 billion Modernization of health-information technology systems $4 billion Preventative [more...]
Date: 2009-02-02 18:26:17
Gov. Jay Nixon pans House vote to deny extra SCHIP funding
JEFFERSON CITY — The staredown between Gov. Jay Nixon and House Republicans over health care funding is continuing with no signs of retreat on either ... qualify for Medicaid health coverage. Icet said no. And after a couple of days of passionate debate ... on the theme of overturning the Medicaid cuts made by Republicans in 2005. And those Republicans, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 22:26:16
What Does The Nursing Home Rating Mean?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have recently created an online tool to help people compare Nursing Homes ... to participate in Medicare or Medicaid and which provide a level of care which is considered "skilled". The ratings are based on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. read more [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 21:18:55
FASTER DRUG ADOPTION SAVES LIVES
Innovation in prescription drugs is helping improve Americans' overall health, ... and for safety-net programs such as Medicare. Using data on Medicaid prescriptions for 30 therapeutic groups, which account for virtually all Medicaid medicines dispensed, Lichtenberg found that an important [more...]
Date: 2009-01-30 13:30:56
Home Biz: Miriam’s Busy Fingers
NewsHerald.com: Miriam Shutes has been ill or disabled most of her 50 years ... providers who want help with their Medicaid waiver billing, or businesses that could use a virtual ... to find a business that would meet Shutes’ abilities and interest. They came up with Medicaid waiver [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 16:09:45
Welcome, President Obama - Fight for Reproductive Rights Continues
Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion as a woman’s right, will be 36 years old on Jan. 22 ... , including restrictions on abortion funding for Medicaid-eligible women and Medicare beneficiaries ... in Medicaid. These funding restrictions are the most detrimental of all attacks on safe, legal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 04:33:24
Republicans Seem To Think Texas Doesn’t Need $27 Billion In Stimulus Funds
Welcome to Capitol Annex! If you are a new user, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed ... (or more) would go: Texas would get more than $5 billion for Medicaid, the health insurance program ... videotaped by Empower Texans, which advocates spending cuts. So, $5 million for Medicaid is bad policy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-25 20:03:51
"Good riddance" to WellCare
Tampa-based WellCare of Florida plans to leave the Medicaid reform program in Broward County and the Jacksonville area, ... to stay in the rest of the state's Medicaid program, where provider rates are about 2 percent higher than ... that former Gov. Jeb Bush hoped would change the way state-paid healthcare is managed. The AP reported [more...]
Date: 2009-02-04 23:34:48
The Medicaid Challenge, Part II: Reimbursement & the Federal Government
Last week I looked at some of the major problems afflicting the Medicaid program, including low reimbursement rates for doctors, patients’ lack of access to care, a lower quality of available care, stringent eligibility requirements, and complicated enrollment procedures [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 21:11:53
HITECH Act: Medicaid Reimbursement Plan
Yesterday’s post and table provided the physician reimbursement schedule under Medicare ... at the State level, which will institute the guidelines provided by HHS. Much of the basic qualifications ... below provides physician payment schedule under Medicaid. For more info, look to Division [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 21:24:51
"It's raining money": Democrats seek to 'rewrite social contracts' under cover of the stimulus bill
Payola to the victim special interest groups. Democrats are seeking to fund backdoor Universal Health Care by expanding Medicaid ( ... insurance. $150 billion for 'the children'. We conservatives know what the Democrats want: a social ... checks to qualify for Medicaid, the health program for low-income people. Spouses and children could [more...]
Date: 2009-01-28 12:00:00
Chipping Away At Medical Bankruptcy With SCHIP
As a bankruptcy lawyer in Indiana for the past quarter century, ... to provide health care coverage for children in families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but who cannot afford to buy private health insurance. Funding for SCHIP, as with Medicaid, is a federal [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 12:57:30
Video: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Defends Stimulus Bill’s Inclusion of Millions of Dollars Designated to Fund Contraception While Obama Administration Claims it Wasn’t His Idea
From CNSNews.com: The Obama White House on Monday backed away from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support for increased federal funding of ... for contraception through Medicaid, allowing those not poor enough to be currently eligible for Medicaid to nonetheless qualify for the contraception aid. A program created during the Clinton [more...]
Date: 2009-01-27 07:07:46
Sebelius as the New, Improved Daschle
There's a pretty good take here on the Botticelli-like reappearance of Kansas's Gov ... . The insurance commissioner of Kansas gig and being what the NY Times said was "a governor running a state Medicaid program" seem like thin credentials to me. Don't all states have a Medicaid program? Being [more...]
Date: 2009-02-19 19:18:44
NM Eligible for $95 Million+ in Medicaid Relief; Funds Available Starting Wednesday
President Barack Obama announced in a meeting with the nation’s Governors today that states will be able to access the first two quarters ... starting this Wednesday, February 25. FMAP funding helps pay for health care for the families hit hard ... rely on Medicaid for health care coverage and this funding could help 20 million more Americans [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 04:43:18
Feds join Medicaid fraud suit against CHS - Bizjournals.com
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Date: 2009-03-06 23:21:05
Economy Drains - Prison Population
Pew Study Shows Criminal Corrections Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid - NYTimes.com"Criminal correction spending is outpacing budget growth in education, transportation and public assistance, based on state and federal data. Only Medicaid spending grew faster than state [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 16:11:00
Maggie Brooks Announces $3.3 Million Medicaid Fraud Bust
From the County’s press release: Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks and Medicaid Inspector General James G ... to vital healthcare services for all County residents who truly need and legitimately qualify ... , including software designed by the Salient Corporation [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 15:01:00
Jindal: Medicaid program on skids
Jindal: Medicaid program on skids by Jan Moller, The Times-Picayune Friday November 14, 2008, 9:41 PM BATON ROUGE -- Arguing that "doing nothing is not an option, " Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday proposed restructuring Louisiana's health-care program for the poor into a private insurance model that relies on managed-care principles [more...]
Date: 2008-11-15 04:17:19
Obama releases $15 billion in Medicaid funding to states
President Obama, meeting with the nation's governors in Washington, D.C ... funding to help them cope with the rising health care costs brought on by the economic crisis ... of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The federal agency [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 16:45:04
The Lessons of Medicaid vs. Medicare
Health care reimbursement is so complicated that not many really understand it. Many people do not understand the differences between Medicare ( ... Journal, Scott Gottlieb of AEI excoriates Medicaid’s wacky reimbursement strategy, which seemingly [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 22:44:23
The Fine Print: What's in the Stimulus Bill for Health Care
The AMA has produced a nice list of the health care provisions in the federal stimulus bill ... . Medicaid $87 billion in additional federal matching funds is provided (from Oct. 1, 2008-Dec. 31 ... parts of state Medicaid programs that are based on enhanced FMAP (e.g., DSH, TANF, SCHIP, child/family [more...]
Date: 2009-02-20 19:03:19
Senior Care Groups want Nursing Home Funding protected in Obama’s First Budget
President Barack Obama is expected to reveal his 2010 budget proposal on Thursday ... to protect Medicaid funding for skilled nursing facilities. Learn about how this issue could impact quality ... spokeswoman Lori Porter. “The bottom line: Maintaining Medicaid funding for skilled nursing care must [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 13:00:56
Adding up obama’s plan to save $300 billion in medicare, medicaid
We all know by know that the $630 billion health-care #8220;reserve fund#8221; described in President Obama#8217;s budget relies on a combination of tax increases and savings in Medicare and Medicaid spending ... , and which seem ill advised or overly optimistic. Payment Shift Projected savings, 2010-2019 Drive [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 01:40:01
Bobby Jindal: The Maverick Of The Health Care Reform
New details about Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R-LA) proposed overhaul of Louisiana’s Medicaid system suggest that the ‘new leader’ of the conservative ... . Under Jindal’s proposal, patients currently receiving Medicaid benefits will have three choices [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 22:13:52
Our neighbor to the east
Vermonters' favorite state to criticize is New Hampshire (with New Jersey a close second) ... by private health insurance and onlly 6% by Medicaid. In Vermont 72% of the under 65 population are covered by private health insurance and 24% --nearly one quarter--are covered by Medicaid, at a large [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 14:02:25
Housing Works Calls Raske 'Chicken' (Updated)
Housing Works is going where Gov. David Paterson wouldn't , calling GNYHA President Ken Raske "chicken" ... about Medicaid reform because you're afraid New Yorkers will find out the truth. Chicken: Bwak, bwak ... News and the New York Post all say is true. Governor Paterson's Medicaid reforms make sense [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 15:34:07
Guttmacher Report Cites Effectiveness, Cost-Savings in Family Planning Programs
Public Release Date: 24-February-2009 Publicly funded family planning programs save the U.S ... -state Medicaid program. In addition, 27 states have expanded eligibility for family planning for low-income women who would not otherwise qualify for Medicaid. Rachel Benson Gold, a co-author [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 01:07:54
Undocumented Immigrants draining social services? A Lie or a Fact?
Let the sunshine in!!!! How many times did you hear undocumented Immigrants draining the social services like Medicare, Medicaid, Medical, etc? ... the Medicaid programs and all these senior programs. As a proportion, they'll be paying [more...]
Date: 2009-02-20 05:15:00
Deficits matter
“What is required now is for this country to pull together, confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for our future once more ... else to willfully ignore the $10 trillion plus in debt we’re already mired in, with more obligations to come. The big bugaboos are entitlements. Remember those? Social Security? Medicare? Medicaid [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 15:02:16
Obama takes on GOP governors who are more interested in politics than the common good ... Room this morning, and, among other things, announced that $15 billion to cover states' Medicaid costs ... be able to keep their coverage. But towards the end of his remarks, the president stopped looking [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 19:20:04
You're Fired
Just about any type of social interaction will create a relationship of one kind or another ... of their physician with regards to health and even as a mentor of sort to help guide them through life decisions ... payments who's fees are based on agreed upon contracts. Whether it's Medicare, Medicaid or the Blues [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 12:00:00
President Obama Announces More Than $252 Million In Medicaid Relief From ARRA For Virginia
Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) funding available for states on Feb. 25 in special Treasury accounts.On Monday, Feb ... the past twenty-four hours, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the state [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 22:08:48
Re: LOL
We already have mechanisms for those people. They're called Medicaid and Medicare. What's funny about that? I don't believe there are 47 million Americans (or whatever number you guys are using these days) who would have health insurance if only they could afford it. Are you attempting to make the case [more...]
Date: 2009-02-13 16:59:25
Budget Fun!
Perhaps because there's so much else going on, the fact that this is budget week still doesn't seem like it's really broken through in the headlines ... . The White House has been saying they want to find significant savings from Medicare and Medicaid to free up money for a major down payment on health care reform this year . My own sense is that [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 16:25:19
The Growing Conservative Divide
While conventional wisdom is that the GOP is quite pleased with itself for having stood united against the stimulus package and, remarkably, ... of everything from high finance to the ordinary workplace. The Democrats are expanding Medicaid to crowd out private insurance. The federal government wants a huge new role in redirecting private investment [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 12:52:14
Country Roads
This article was supposed to be about West Virginia's effort to refurbish it's image as an Appalachian backwater, but goes horribly awry: ... have lost six or more teeth. And because the state's Medicaid and Medicare programs do not generally reimburse for dentures or routine care for adults, and rates of dental insurance are low, West [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 16:49:00
2-28: Sword Swallowers Awareness Day
LINUX DEPARTMENT: New XFCE release is out (4.6.0) ... clinics start refusing to see Medicare or Medicaid patients? Child mauled by a pit bull ... ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) MEDICAL: Singing big band tunes to wake a patient [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 06:47:52
Compromise
“So we’ll let you continue to rape and pillage - just not as often . And you won’t be paid as much for it ... Medicaid. The plan could save the drug companies billions a year compared with price controls. “ ... , a former head of the Health Insurance Association of America, which funded the “Harry and Louise” ad [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 11:52:25
What Drives Organizational Success?
Business is, at its heart, a rational beast. It operates according to rules, policies, logic and habit ... lobbyist for the hospital industry, to run Medicare and Medicaid, by saying "Tom is a problem-solver ... . By instituting procedures and guidelines, teams are provided with clear, unambiguous directions as to how [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 05:03:58
Obama Lies… You Could Die
- Scott Miller Well, the Obamarxist was out in full demagogue mode today as he lied and spun his way through his press conference on Socialized ... it touches. Look at Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the National Health plans in Canada, France ... Heathcare today. Don’t believe me? Read what Pravda is saying… this from ABC News: Medical [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 01:46:18
New Rule Haults Nursing Home Cases
Before leaving office, the Bush administration shut off a source of information about abuse and neglect in long-term care facilities that people ... and Medicare and Medicaid contractors as federal employees. Previous to this designation, these workers were ... nursing-home residents and their families by allowing bad practices to be kept in secret by nurs [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 18:33:08
Preventing Neighborhood Blight With Stimulus Dollars
President-elect Barack Obama and his team of economic advisers have been busy at work devising a blueprint for the stimulus package they hope to ... be up to $100 billion to subsidize the states’ growing Medicaid caseloads of the poor. ... Besides ... the most vulnerable,” as well as tax cuts. Financing Medicare and expanding unemployment insuran [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 19:48:50
A little attempt to understand the liberal mindset
OK just call this an experiment....this week I will ask a question that is one of the great points of contention between libs and conserves..... ... Today's question...... Medicare/ Medicaid spending is out of control, and rife with abuse ... , and are not capable of meeting their medical needs and actually need the help. How as a liberal do you justify [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 03:16:01
About
For decades now, audacious campaign rhetoric that championed the cause of the common American has been nothing but that—narcissistic campaign ... and insurance companies that make providing healthcare to 47 million Americans a pipe dream continue to get billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid for inefficiency. In his weekly radio address, Gen [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 18:57:51
Well, I'm off
I have to make the long trek to the county office building in Lake George--for some reason, many counties in my part of the world, ... . I rang up my old ooptomotrist, but the cost with only medicare and no medicaid...wow. Not exactly ... . medical care. Is this deliberate? No, it's just ignorance, and the counties trying to save money [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 16:27:20
Professor Bradley Herring on single payer
Covering the Uninsured: Options for Reform Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured Alliance for Health Reform March 2, ... Potential Complications with the Different Approaches to Health Reform”: First off, single payer, HR ... has administrative costs between about 2 to 3 percent whereas private insurance varies considerably across [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 21:29:09
The Next, Pro-Choice Cabinet?
Now that election excitement has died down, the attention of the politically obsessed has turned to speculation about who might be tapped to fill ... children" in the state health insurance program. After Thompson departed, Bush appointed anti ... at the Department of Health and Human Services. Keroack resigned a few months later after Medicaid filed [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 13:38:32
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