Several news outlets report on a possible lawsuit against the Medicaid compromise for Nebraska that Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., brokered with Senate leaders. "South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is threatening to file a constitutional challenge to Congress's healthcare reform effort...
The Kansas City Star reports that Missouri led the country in 2008 in efficiency in using federal dollars to combat Medicaid fraud. "The state recovered almost $29.8 million in 2008, the most recent year for which comparative data are available, while receiving about $1.6 million in federal...
Wisconsin State Journal: "Wisconsin's rural hospitals hope to offset a state Medicaid cut with a tax that would bring more federal money to the hospitals. The proposed tax on the state's 59 'critical access' hospitals, all in rural areas, would prevent the hospitals from closing important...
Newspapers report on the controversy about variations in individual state costs for a Medicaid expansion in health care overhaul legislation. "Gov. Phil Bredesen [D-Tenn.] said today that he is 'very distraught and concerned' about the direction health care reform is moving at the federal level...
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports the efforts of the Florida Pediatric Society, a chapter of the AAP, and the Florida Academy of Pediatric Dentistry to combat discrepancies in the quality of medical and dental care delivered to children enrolled in Florida's Medicaid program...
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports the efforts of the Florida Pediatric Society, a chapter of the AAP, and the Florida Academy of Pediatric Dentistry to combat discrepancies in the quality of medical and dental care delivered to children enrolled in Florida's Medicaid program...
In exchange for accepting a proposed compromise on a public option in the health bill, liberal Democratic Senators are hoping to win expansions of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, The New York Times reports. "One of the changes being pushed by the liberals would lower the age of eligibility...
Women with Medicaid were slightly less likely than women with Medicare coverage to secure a timely appointment for a diagnostic mammogram, though the delay "is unlikely to be a substantial barrier to mammography," according to a study published in the journal Cancer, Reuters reports. In contrast...
I am 24 and just had a baby. I am living with my dad and step mom until my fiance and I can get an apartment. I need to apply for medicaid for myself and the baby but will they deny me because my dad makes good money and I live with him? I don't pay rent or bills but I am not working now and...
My daughter has had medicaid her entire life. I sent in the re-certification paperwork in November and got a letter back that said it was a decision on her application and just said that if I'm happy with the managed care plan to do nothing and it'll stay the same.
Took her to the dr and was...
My father is a senior citizen. He has both medicare and medicaid. He is moving from New York to Maryland. Does he need to apply again for health insurance in Maryland or his already active coverage in New York will be enough to start his medical care in Maryland.
im 20 and i got pregnant at 16 and gained alot of baby weight. over the last 2 years i dropped it all but i have really bad cellulite now. the treatments are expensive so i was wondering weather medicaid covers cellulite treatments.