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Hospitals In Different Regions React To Medicaid Cuts
For Indiana hospitals, Medicaid rates have long lagged behind other types of payers – with no increase since 1993 – but after a year of deep recessions and state budget cuts, those hospitals are now looking at a five percent cut, The (Fort Wayne) Journal Gazette reports. Reactions to the cuts among hospitals varied…
Local Groups React To Proposed Changes In Medicare And Medicaid
Local news coverage details concerns about Medicare and Medicaid spending reductions that could affect senior and nursing care. The Providence Business News reports that the Obama administration has pledged to root out Medicare waste and called for a $1.05 billion reduction in Medicare spending on nursing homes in the White House’s draft budget for the 2010 fiscal year.
Editorials React To Trustees’ Report On Medicare Insolvency
Several newspapers on Thursday published editorials responding to a Medicare trustees report issued Tuesday that said the trust fund Medicare uses to pay for beneficiaries’ hospital care will be insolvent by 2017, two years earlier than predicted by trustees last year. Summaries of the editorials appear below.
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