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SPOTLIGHT: Insurance rates jump for poor in Pennsylvania
About 2,400 poor adults on the waiting list to join AdultBasic, Pennsylvania's state insurance program for those who don't qualify for Medicaid, were hit March 1 with a near doubling of their monthly... Read more...
Hospital fees excite interest in several states
The possibility of instituting hospital fees or taxes to support state Medicaid programs recently has made the news in both Georgia and Tennessee. Now three more states--New Jersey, California and... Read more...
States want federal government to pay for 'dual eligibles'
In an attempt to reduce healthcare costs for states, New York Gov. David Paterson is gathering support for a plan that would shift the responsibility of costs for the elderly poor strictly to the... Read more...
Unpaid hospital bills stacked up in 2008
By Emily Paulsen and Dan Bowman Uncompensated care totaled $36.4 billion on 2008, an increase of 7.1 percent from 2007, according to a new report from the American Hospital Association. However, the... Read more...
OIG may tighten Medicare, Medicaid auditing programs
Providers are just beginning to get adjusted to the idea that they're facing far more auditing scrutiny, most notably from the RACs. Now, it's possible things will get a bit tougher yet, with the HHS... Read more...
Study: Most physicians still accepting Medicare patients
While Medicare still isn't a most favored payer, medical practices aren't turning away Medicare beneficiaries in droves. That's one of the main conclusions drawn by new research from the Center for... Read more...
Hospital lobby asked to look for healthcare savings
Can hospitals really deliver healthcare savings? The Senate Finance Committee is asking them to deliver, specifically by finding ways to shave costs off of Medicare and Medicaid over the next decade.... Read more...
Medicaid fees for MDs grow more slowly than Medicaid; Ohio hospital cuts staffing costs by $10M;
> Medicaid physician fees went up 15.1 percent between 2003 and 2008, narrowing, but not closing, the gap between Medicare and Medicaid rates. Article > Surgeon/MBA Dr. Kenneth Cohn suggests a... Read more...
Case study: MI hospitals to get $6.5M from stimulus, with conditions
Hospitals in Michigan who treat the state's 1.2 million uninsured people can expect to get a $6.5 million boost from the new federal economic stimulus plan in 2009, though a few conditions will be... Read more...
U of Chicago postpones ED diversion program
As we'd reported previously, the University of Chicago Medical Center recently set plans to begin diverting patients away from its emergency department who weren't acutely sick. The hospital intended... Read more...
