... analysis.
The researchers found that hospitals with low percentages (5 percent) of Medicaid patients improved their performance significantly more than those with high percentages (40 percent) of ...
... of acute myocardial infarction event and distance from residence to hospital."
In addition, patients with Medicaid were more likely to have a long or medium vs. a short delay than were patients with ...
... the government's Healthy People 2010 plan, according to background information in the article. "State Medicaid agencies are in a unique position to monitor and improve the quality of care received by ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicaid's growing strain on federal and state budgets is unlikely to abate over the coming decade as the cost of providing health care to the poor is expected to increase 7.9 ...
... , researchers collected data from 49 states and the District of Columbia to determine whether their Medicaid programs had a prior authorization policy for six biologic DMARDs between 1999 and 2005 ( ...
The Bush administration’s action on Medicaid was the first of an expected avalanche of postelection regulations.
... financial services industry. Once the family savings were gone, the mother of two from Stratford, Conn., saw no way to get health insurance coverage for her family other than to apply for Medicaid....
... in Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey, and Washington in 1999. It used claims for Medicaid benefits of those with behavioral health diagnoses, and compared those who had and did not ...
Medicaid enrollments are surging by unprecedented rates due to the recession and increase in unemployment.
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The findings are important because they document the effect of state Medicaid reimbursement policies on the medical services that are actually delivered, said the study's lead ...
... health insurance face a burden their counterparts in other states don't — they must show up in person at a Medicaid office every year to renew health coverage for themselves and their children.
It is time for states to suspend, rather than terminate, the Medicaid benefits of inmates while they are incarcerated, say correctional health care experts from The Miriam Hospital in a commentary ...
The Justice Department said the drug maker charged state Medicaid programs a higher price for a stomach acid drug than it charged hospitals.
... ) -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday he wants at least $200 billion cut from Medicare and Medicaid spending over the next decade to help pay for overhauling the nation's health care system and ...
(AP) -- President Barack Obama said Saturday he wants to help pay for his health care overhaul by slowing Medicare and Medicaid spending, but hospitals, medical technicians and others are resisting.
