Medicaid News

The intense debate in Washington over the future of our health care system has been largely focused on two central issues.

How New York state would fare under proposed health care reform remains an open question, but there's no doubt that state government and, to some extent, county governments would share in the cost of expanding health coverage to more Americans.

Chiropractors get a lift in the Senate health care bill, thanks to a senator from the state practitioners consider the birthplace of their profession -- Iowa.

WASHINGTON a ' Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.

Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate released the long awaited health care reform bill Wednesday.

Purchasing prescription drugs in a three-month supply rather than a one-month supply has long been regarded as a way to reduce the cost of drugs for patients and third-party payers.

RALEIGH Dr. Earl Sunderhaus, an Asheville eye doctor, has what might charitably be described as a brusque bedside manner.

TALLAHASSEE - Florida health care providers will now be able to access information on Medicaid patients, including diagnoses and prescription history, electronically.

The health care overhaul debate in Congress now centers on two bills: the measure that the House of Representatives passed earlier this month, and the new Senate Democrats' version unveiled Wednesday.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has included at least $100 million in Medicaid funds for Louisiana in his health care bill at the same time he is trying to persuade that state's wavering Democratic senator to cast a pivotal vote for the overhaul legislation.

As part of the Obama Administration's goal of reducing waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services significantly revised and improved its calculations of Medicare fee-for-service error rates in 2009, reflecting a more complete accounting of Medicare's improper ...

It's an issue that Democrats would rather not deal with as they shape a health care overhaul.

As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate.

Fighting a coercion clause By George Will PHOENIX - In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea.

A comparison of the health care bills before Congress: ___ The Senate Democratic bill : WHO'S COVERED: About 94 percent of legal residents under age 65 compared with 83 percent now.

Sen. Mark Warner told CNSNews.com that the constitutional authority for Congress to require individuals to purchase health insurance is the same that allowed for Medicaid and Medicare, and for states to require driver's licenses.

As President Obama and Congress craft the largest national health insurance program since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, they insist that the final product will add "not one dime" to the federal deficit.

Melvin and Sandra Adams are members of Samaritan Ministries International and have benefited from the program at least six times, he said.

It is a core tenet of the push to improve American medical care and control its cost: Experts should study the effectiveness of treatments and procedures to determine which work best.

There was a lot of buzz yesterday about the report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the impact of health care reform.