Posts Tagged ‘cuts’
South Carolina, Oklahoma And Arkansas Grapple With Medicaid Cuts To Help Balance Budget
States consider major cuts to Medicaid services and reimbursement rates to help fill gaps in the budget. The Associated Press: “Lawmakers are considering cutting all services for nearly 26,000 people with disabilities as South Carolina tries to plug a $560 million budget hole…
Federal Court Rejects California Medicaid Cuts
The San Francisco Chronicle: “A federal appeals court barred California on Wednesday from lowering Medi-Cal payments to doctors and hospitals by 5 percent and from cutting in-home care workers’ wages by nearly 20 percent, saying the state’s budget crisis doesn’t justify violating federal laws that protect the poor and disabled. In four rulings, the Ninth U.S…
Research Roundup: Financing Boomers’ Care; California’s Budget Cuts; Racial Disparities In Surgical Outcomes
Health Affairs: Chronic Conditions Account For Rise In Medicare Spending From 1987 To 2006 – “Medicare beneficiaries’ medical needs, and where beneficiaries undergo treatment, have changed dramatically over the past two decades…
Florida Faces Fight Over Medicaid Reform Expansion; In Kansas, Cuts Hurt A Mental Health Clinic
Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration may broaden that state’s Medicaid-reform pilot program to include 19 more counties to save more than $58 million by requiring Medicaid beneficiaries enroll in managed-care plans, Health News Florida reports. “Such an expansion could affect 375,000 people and save $58.7 million during the upcoming fiscal year…
Huge Medicaid Cuts To Occur If Congress Fails To Extend Enhanced Federal Funding
An extension of increased federal matching funds to states for their Medicaid programs is needed quickly to avert huge cutbacks in Medicaid coverage and services across the country, according to a report issued today by the consumer health group Families USA…
Calif. Budget Cuts Would End Aid To New Legal Immigrants; Minn. Dems Criticize Pawlenty For Relying On Federal Funds
Los Angeles Times: “Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest proposals to close California’s budget shortfall would end public assistance for most new legal immigrants, eliminating emergency cash, food and medical aid for those who don’t yet qualify for federal welfare. The proposal would represent an about-face for the state…
Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mich., Arizona Plan Medicaid Cuts; N.C.’s Prison Health Costs
The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune: Louisiana “Gov. Bobby Jindal will present his 2010-11 budget request Friday, which is expected to call for cuts to health care, education and other areas of state government as his administration outlines plans for plugging a $1 billion shortfall. …
Possible State Cuts To Texas Seniors’ Nursing Facility Medicaid Funding Imprudent In Light Of Worsening Facility Cost Squeeze
In testimony at a Health and Human Service Commission (HHSC) hearing on possible budget reduction options, the President of the Texas Health Care Association (THCA) warned that any cuts now to Texas Medicaid payment rates for nursing home care will confront the nursing home profession with dire financial consequences…
Calif. Budget Cuts Will Hit Adult Day Care Centers, Prison Health Care; Texas And Kansas Weigh Medicaid Cuts
The Los Angeles Times, on adult day care centers in California: “Under the most recent cost-saving budget proposals, 327 adult day healthcare centers throughout California would be eliminated. Cuts could save the state $135 million in fiscal 2011, state projections show…
Medicaid Cuts, Past And Proposed, A Concern To Businesses And Patient Advocates
Kansas Health Institute: “The Kansas Hospital Association will throw its lobbying clout behind a proposed increase in the state tobacco tax to restore a cut in the Medicaid rates paid to providers” (McLean, 2/3). Chattanooga Times Free Press: Tennessee “hospitals could lose a half billion dollars under the cumulative effect of Gov…
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