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Managed Care October 2001 Bob Carlson	Trying To Get Control of Drug Costs, Florida Earns Kudos -- and a Lawsuit Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) filed suit against Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration, challenging a new Medicaid formulary that requires manufacturers to pay supplemental rebates to have their drugs included...
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Managed Care January 2001 Bob Carlson	Ohio Struggles To Rescue Managed Medicaid Program Health plans and providers in Ohio's beleaguered Medicaid managed care program, OhioCare, welcomed its per-member, per-month payment increases of more than 25 percent over the last two years...
Managed Care August 2000 Carey Lee Straetz	Managing Medicaid Rolls Often State-by-State Affair Despite the strong economy, Medicaid enrollment may be slowly rising after a three-year decline. The challenges for serving this population are huge.
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Managed Care July 2002	Despite Deficits, States Avoid Cutting Medicaid, CHIP Rolls Although states are straining to close budget deficits, they have refrained from introducing stringent eligibility requirements for the CHIP and Medicaid programs.
Managed Care December 2001	CMS Medicaid Managed Care Proposal Under Close Scrutiny Bioterrorism. Medicaid managed care plans. No link between them? Guess again. It all has to do with how proposed Medicaid regulations would affect patients' rights and funding for Medicaid programs ranging from nursing home care to emergency rooms...
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Managed Care August 2004	Medicaid Fees Rise, But Still Below Medicare A recent study reports that 30 states raised their Medicaid fees at or above the rate of inflation, including 10 that raised physician fees by more than 35%.
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BusinessWeek February 21, 2005	Mooching Off Medicaid The state-run medical-care programs originally designed to help poor mothers and their children now increasingly pay for nursing-home care for seniors. While many of those seniors are genuinely poor, others are not. The rules should be tightened.
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Managed Care February 2005 John Carroll	Just What Can We Expect From New Head of HHS? How much will plans have to "be like Mike" -- Leavitt, that is. The influence of the secretary of health and human services reaches beyond the public sector.
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Managed Care February 2006	Managed Care Offered to More Medicaid Enrollees A chart illustrates the percentage of medicaid enrollees in managed care, for the years 1996 to 2004.
Managed Care July 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Managed Medicaid Business Might Be Worth the Difficulties Financial, regulatory, and access problems continue. Still, this remains a growth industry and some have found a way to profit.
HBS Working Knowledge July 14, 2006 Regina E. Herzlinger	The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid The Medicaid program is a health insurance safety net for 52 million Americans, but the price tag threatens the financial stability of the states. South Carolina provides a model in consumer-driven healthcare.
BusinessWeek March 3, 2011 Tim Jones	For Governors, Public Sector Unions Are the Enemy They're being targeted for pay cuts, benefit cuts, salary cuts, and loss of collective bargaining rights
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Managed Care February 2007	Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage Rates Falling A new report says that that 61 percent of non-elderly Americans had employer-sponsored insurance in 2004, compared to 66 percent in 2000.
Registered Rep. September 18, 2013 Kevin McKinley	Having Money and Getting Medicaid Clients who want to have both their money and Medicaid may want to purchase a specific type of long-term care insurance known as a "partnership" policy, currently available to residents in 31 states.
Managed Care April 2004	Medicaid DM To Get Boost From CMS The federal government plans to give Medicaid disease management a lift by matching the money states pay to run such programs.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Janet Arrowood	The Medicare and Medicaid Minefield As the population ages and life expectancy rises, so does the likelihood that more people will be needing long-term care and your financial advisory clients should know the hard facts about paying for it, because the costs can be staggering.
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Managed Care October 2003 John Carroll	Shining Light Or Shipwreck? Maine's health care reformers are on course to deliver a controversial universal care plan. But is the coast clear?
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Managed Care July 2002	CBO Weighs Effect of Growing Deficit on Fed Programs Health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid figure to suffer, thanks to a growing federal budget deficit, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.
Investment Advisor March 2006 Elizabeth Festa	Incentives for Long-Term Care New long-term care partnership programs, which are active in four states, now provide private LTC insurance with special access to Medicaid for those exhausting their insurance benefits.
Managed Care August 2002	24 States Hope Pharmacy Plus Helps Medicaid Twenty-four states may gamble that providing a prescription drug program to low-income elderly who do not qualify for Medicaid could save them money in the long run.
Financial Planning February 1, 2005 DeFrancesco & Flory	The Golden Years? As this country's baby boomers get closer to retirement, long-term care (LTC) will only grow in importance. Medicaid annuities may help clients preserve their assets, even if they're already in a nursing home.
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Managed Care April 2002	More Than Just 'Chipping' Away at Problem of Uninsured Children CHIP (the Children's Health Insurance Program) continues to grow by leaps and bounds. About 4.6 million children in the U.S. received coverage through CHIP in fiscal year 2001. That's an increase of 38 percent from fiscal year 2000...
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