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Illinois moved closer to drastic Medicaid cuts Monday with proposed legislation that could excise nearly $1.4 billion from the state’s program by shrinking benefits, such as regular adult dental care, and cutting payments to most hospitals and ...
May 22, 2012 at 03:35 | Source: Chicago Sun-Times
In the coming weeks, the State will select Medicaid CCO’s (Coordinated Care Organization) to provide health and mental health services across the State effective August 2012. CCO’s will be capitated by the State (i.e. put on a fixed budget ...
May 25, 2012 at 23:34 | Source: Oregonian
McALLEN — A Brownsville woman and her daughter-in-law will spend time in prison after they admitted to a Medicaid fraud conspiracy. Felicitas Velez Alanis, 51, and Erika Ortega Alanis, 27, will have to repay $616,390 to the Texas Medicaid ...
May 24, 2012 at 22:31 | Source: Brownsville Herald
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are asking more questions about federal funding for Minnesota's Medicaid program. In a May 15 letter, three Republicans on the House's committee on oversight and government reform ask the state's ...
May 22, 2012 at 04:04 | Source: Pioneer Press
SALT LAKE CITY — Public intoxication charges levied against Utah's Medicaid inspector general while he was visiting South Carolina for a work-related conference have been dropped. The Columbia police officer who encountered Lee Wyckoff, who was allegedly ...
May 24, 2012 at 19:32 | Source: Deseret News
He has gotten some bad press and push-back from hospitals, but it’s been a productive first year for Utah’s Medicaid Inspector General (OIG). Lee Wyckoff and his auditing team have recouped $5.6 million in overpaid Medicaid claims and ...
May 24, 2012 at 01:53 | Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Gov. Beverly Perdue has signed into law a method to close a shortfall in North Carolina's Medicaid program this year that also contains a provision to slow efforts to privatize medical services for prisoners. Perdue's office said the governor ...
May 25, 2012 at 10:13 | Source: msnbc.com
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois moved closer to drastic Medicaid cuts Monday with proposed legislation that could excise nearly $1.4 billion from the state's program by shrinking benefits, such as regular adult dental care, and cutting payments to most ...
May 26, 2012 at 03:38 | Source: Yahoo Finance
SPRINGFIELD — Hundreds of thousands of people would see their health care cut back or even eliminated under legislation approved Thursday by Illinois lawmakers in a desperate attempt to shore up the state's crumbling budget. The Medicaid cuts ...
May 25, 2012 at 06:45 | Source: Arlington Heights Daily Herald
Tennessee Republican congressional candidate Scottie Mayfield referred to Medicaid and welfare recipients as "non-taxpayers" in a position paper he released on Wednesday, saying it was time that taxpayers stop subsidizing these programs.
May 18, 2012 at 23:57 | Source: Huffington Post