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Medicare Ends Contract With Fox Insurance Company Drug Plan
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today terminated its contract with Fox Insurance Company. After an onsite review of the plan and its services, CMS determined that the plan’s significant deficiencies – not meeting Medicare’s requirements to provide enrollees with prescription drugs according to recognized standards of care – jeopardized the health and safety of Fox enrollees…
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. …
AMA Unhappy With Senate Plan For Medicare ‘Doc Fix’
The American Medical Association is criticizing “a Senate plan for avoiding a proposed 21 percent cut in government payments to physicians who treat the elderly, calling the proposal a ‘Band-Aid’ measure,” Bloomberg/BusinessWeek reports…
State Round Up: Florida Considers Eliminating Popular Medicaid Plan; State Program For Low-Income Adults Changing In Minn.
Health News Florida: “This could be the year the state of Florida eliminates its popular MediPass program, which gives more than half a million Medicaid recipients, mostly aged and disabled Floridians, an alternative to HMOs. Hints of its demise showed up in the governor’s budget and letters from a powerful lawmaker…
UGL Unicco Flu Preparedness And Business Continuity Plan Combats The Spread Of The H1N1 Virus
UGL Unicco, a subsidiary of United Group Limited (UGL), today announced its UGL Unicco Flu Preparedness and Business Continuity Plan. It is a comprehensive set of procedures and cleaning services that are designed to help ensure the health and safety of customers’ personnel, the public and UGL Unicco employees during flu events, up to and including pandemic events.
House Republicans Offer Health Overhaul Plan
House Republicans unveiled their health reform proposal Tuesday night. Their alternative health care bill “would reward states for reducing the number of uninsured, limit damages in medical malpractice lawsuits and allow small businesses to band together and buy insurance exempt from most state regulation,” The New York Times reports.
RNs: Strike Plan Forces Overdue Release Of Masks, Hospitals Have No More Excuses To Improve H1N1 Standards
This week’s announcement of a major nurses strike over inadequate hospital protections for the H1N1 pandemic has prompted California officials to finally release millions of safety masks it had been holding, and removes one more excuse for hospitals in meeting the highest public safety protections, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) said today. Earlier today Gov.
Senate Dems Still Debating Public Plan In Health Bills
Senate Democratic leaders are tracking the support of a government-run public option in health care reform legislation. BusinessWeek: “Not long ago, as attention centered on the Senate Finance Committee’s moderate health-care reform bill, pundits dismissed the idea of a publicly run insurance program to compete with private insurers as all but dead.
GOP, Some Dems Object To Plan For Adjusting Physicians’ Medicare Pay
Senate Democrats next week will take up a $240 billion, stand-alone bill that would stop scheduled cuts in Medicare’s payments to physicians, The Hill reports. Although the action would be separate from sweeping health reform legislation, “[f]ixing the physician payments could boost Democrats’ health reform efforts by providing physicians with a win on their foremost priority. …
Nurses Plan Strike Over Swine Flu Conditions At Hospitals
More than 16,000 registered nurses are locked in a contract dispute with officials at 37 Catholic hospitals statewide and plan to strike Oct. 30 out of concern that the hospitals’ lax safety standards put them at risk of catching H1N1 flu. The California Nurses Assn., which is in bargaining talks with San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West hospitals, announced the strike this morning. Local hospitals expected to be affected include California Hospital Medical Center, St.
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