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28 min ago | Bangor Daily News

LePage delivers instant veto after Senate passes bill on hospital debt, Medicaid

Gov. Paul LePage handed down an instant veto Thursday, minutes after the Senate gave final passage to a bill that links repayment of Maine's hospital debt to an expansion of the state's Medicaid program.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, US Governors, Paul LePage, Maine, US News

2 hrs ago | The Robesonian

Senate OKs budget after bickering

The North Carolina Senate gave initial approval Wednesday to a state budget proposal after a fierce partisan debate in which Democrats accused the plan's Republican authors of choosing tax reductions over restoring cuts to education, health and rural development.

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Related Topix: US News, Healthcare Law, Law, Health, Pat McCrory, US Governors

3 hrs ago | Phoenix New Times

Is Governor Jan Brewer's Fight to Expand Medicaid Change Your Opinion About Her?

Governor Jan Brewer at a recent rally to push for the expansion of the Medicaid program as allowable under Obamacare.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Jan Brewer, Health

6 hrs ago | Politico

Clock ticking on Medicaid funds

States still mired in the fight over the Obamacare Medicaid expansion are starting to give up on their first year of full funding - and it's unclear whether they would be able to tap into the money before 2015.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, US Governors, Tom Corbett, Mary Fallin, Gary Herbert

8 hrs ago | Detroit News

Different visions doom merger of Henry Ford, Beaumont

Two of the region's largest health care systems, Henry Ford and Beaumont, have scrapped plans for a merger that would have created a 10-hospital system serving as much as 40 percent of the area's patients.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Health

Wed May 22, 2013

Inside Bay Area

Feds take over California high-risk insurance program

About 17,000 Californians with serious medical problems will be moved from a state-run stopgap health insurance program to a federal plan starting in July, ensuring they will have no break in medical coverage until the national health care reforms kick in next year, state officials announced this week.

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Related Topix: California, Health Insurance, Health, California Government, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare

Livonia Observer

Incentives push doctors to electronic medical records

More than half of doctors' offices and 80% of hospitals that provide Medicare or Medicaid will have electronic health records by the end of the year, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, 9

Ledger-Enquirer.com

Russell County Sheriff: Beware Medicare, Medicaid scams targeting elderly

Russell County citizens should be cautious of callers claiming to represent Medicare or Medicaid, due to a foreign scam which has increasingly targeted elderly residents during the past two months, according to the Russell County Sheriff's Office.

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Related Topix: Medicare, Health, Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen), Social Security, Personal Finance

UnionLeader.com

Charles Arlinghaus: On Medicaid expansion, the right answer is, 'not yet'

Like most states in the country, New Hampshire is having a difficult time answering the question about whether to expand Medicaid coverage.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, New Hampshire, Opinion

Dallas Morning News

Who to blame for Texas rejecting Medicaid? Gov. Perry's - just one man...he's not God.'

Gov. Rick Perry gets most of the credit or blame, depending on your point of view, for Texas' refusal to expand Medicaid.

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Related Topix: Health, Texas Government, Texas, Rick Perry, US Governors

Lexington Herald-Leader

Doctor shortage to worsen under Medicaid expansion

That's the conclusion of Deloitte Consulting, a technology firm that's helping to set up the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange.

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Related Topix: Health, Steve Beshear, US Governors

WLOS

Audit: NC Medicaid claims system untested, flawed

An audit of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services says it has failed to fully test a new $484 million computer system scheduled to begin processing Medicaid claims on July 1. The report issued by the office of State Auditor Beth Wood raises serious questions about the process used to affirm the complex NCTracks software will be ... (more)

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Related Topix: Health, North Carolina Government, North Carolina

KRCR

Data: Huge disparity in Medicare payment rates

Get a hip replaced at Olympia Medical Center in Los Angeles, and Medicare will pay the small, doctor-owned hospital $15,585, or about 13% of what Olympia charged in the bills it submitted.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health

Law Firm Newswire

Sequestration Affects Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursements

This March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that the Medicare FFS Program is slated for a reduction in payments due to the sequestration order which was recently signed into law.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, Medicine, Cancer, Oncology

Burnt Orange Report

Legislature Blocks Medicaid Expansion, Guns on Campus Stalls

As the 83rd Legislative session draws to a close, our elected officials are burning the midnight oil.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health, US News, Liberal Political News

Tue May 21, 2013

Washington Examiner

Feds OK Va plan for Medicaid-Medicare eligibility

Federal officials approved a four-year Virginia cost-saving experiment intended to simplify and consolidate health care coverage for about 78,000 Virginians who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare, a major change Gov.

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Related Topix: Health, Medicare, Virginia, Virginia Government, Bob McDonnell, US Governors, Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen), Social Security, Personal Finance

Knoxville News Sentinel

Vanderbilt poll: Tennesseans oppose online tax

A majority of Tennesseans oppose the state enforcing online sales taxes, though respondents were split on whether the current system is fair to local businesses, according to a Vanderbilt University poll released Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Tennessee, Healthcare Law, Law, Vanderbilt University, Health, Bill Haslam, US Governors, US News

Knoxville News Sentinel

Poll: Tennesseans favor Hasalm, Medicaid expansion, against Internet tax, 'Obamacare'

A growing majority of Tennesseans support expansion of Medicaid within the state though most at the same time have an unfavorable impression of the federal law that authorizes expansion, according to a Vanderbilt University poll released Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Tennessee, Health, Vanderbilt University, Bill Haslam, US Governors, US Politics, US News, Lamar Alexander, US Senate, Republican

Alabama Live

Alabama residents favor Medicaid expansion but not Obama reforms as a whole, poll shows

Alabama residents support the part of the Affordable Care Act which would fund a state's expansion of Medicaid recipients, according to a new poll which shows sharp divides along racial lines.

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Related Topix: Alabama, Alabama Government, Health

WBNS

Senate budget committee stalls Medicaid expansion

State senators rejected a proposal on Monday for Louisiana to offer government-subsidized health insurance to the working poor through the federal health overhaul law known as the Affordable Care Act.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Bobby Jindal, Republican, US House of Representatives, Healthcare Law, Law, Health, Louisiana, Louisiana Government, Health Insurance, US Governors