Topic: Medicaid
CHARLESTON, S.C., Jan 5 - South Carolina Governor-elect Nikki Haley and state budget writers are scrambling for solutions as South Carolina faces a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall in its $5 billion budget.The state has three agencies -- Health and Human Services, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government fell deeper into the red in fiscal 2010 with net liabilities swelling more than $2 trillion as commitments on government debt and federal benefits rose, a U.S. Treasury report showed on Tuesday.The Financial Report of the ...
Fallout from Medicaid cuts: Teeth are pulled, transplants are denied, a pharmacy closesIn Illinois, a pharmacist closes his business because of late Medicaid payments. In Arizona, a young father's liver transplant is canceled because Medicaid suddenly won't pay for it. In California, ...
Will Washington have the courage to truly tackle the deficit?Will Washington have the courage to truly tackle the deficit?Bold action to tackle the deficit in the next couple of years doesn’t appear likely, despite pledges by veteran lawmakers in both parties, the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories and two other drugmakers will pay $421 million to settle allegations that they falsely inflated product prices to gain larger government reimbursement payments, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.Abbott's share of the settlement is $126.5 ...
NY drug bust shows how dealers get Medicaid patients to fill, deliver Rx painkillersPolice in western New York have charged 33 people so far in an investigation that shows a new kind of supplier in the illicit drug trade.They say medical patients, ...
Today, we live in a society divided not by religious dogma, nor political affiliation, but by something far more fundamental to daily life. The great divide between the "Haves" and the "Have Nots" is fast becoming a chasm.. The Haves live in ...
Directors of Kentucky's only Medicaid managed care plan spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on limousines, expensive meals, lobbying and bonuses from 2007 to 2009, according to a report released Nov. 9 by Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts Crit Luallen.. He directed ...
Floridians without income and resources to pay for the costs of health care can apply for Medicaid public assistance. There are a number of categories of people whom the federal Medicaid program assists, including the elderly, families with dependent children and people ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans decried the cost of Medicare and Medicaid and accused the Obama administration of blocking their oversight of the federally supported insurance programs for the elderly and the poor, at a hearing on Wednesday.It was Centers for Medicare ...
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MEDICAID CUTS
Chart shows breakdown of percentage of Medicaid costs associated with each enrollment ...AP News - -
Medicaid Cuts Fallout
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2010, file photo, 13-year-old Carlos Olivas paces ...AP News - -
Alabama Dental Fight
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