Tri-committee legislation statement
Statement attributable to Jack Lewin, M.D., CEO of the American College of Cardiology on today’s introduction of “America’s Affordable Health…
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Medicaid
Definition of Medicaid A jointly funded program of the United States federal and state governments that provides hospital expense and…
SCHIP: Access Does Not Equal Quality
A Republican President vetoed a bill initiated by a bipartisan Senate compromise and propelled by Republican effort to provide…
Medicaid patients receive lower-quality care
CHICAGO—Medicaid managed care enrollees appear to receive lower-quality care than patients enrolled in commercial managed care programs, according to a…
Childbirth, pregnancy complications are majority of emergency medicaid costs for undocumented aliens
A large majority of the Emergency Medicaid expenditures in North Carolina are for childbirth and complications of pregnancy for patients…
State Medicaid Spending Declines
From the NetDoc.com medical news feed Medicaid spending growth was slower than state revenue growth, according to a survey released…