Hospital Finance Measur...

California voters will be asked to weigh in this November on a hospital financing measure so politically and financially complicated that they might be tempted to avoid it altogether. The initiative, Proposition 52, would make permanent the “Hospital Quality Assurance Fee,” which the...
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Disability Advocates Pr...

Kansas Health Institute: In Kansas’ Richest County, Medicaid Expansion’s Absence Still Felt The [Alliance fora Healthy Kansas] estimates that Medicaid expansion would extend health coverage to about 150,000 low-income Kansans…The alliance estimates that almost 40,000 Johnson County...
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Texas Supreme Court Tem...

Dallas Morning News: Texas Supreme Court Halts Deep Cuts To Therapy Payments For Disabled Kids The reductions [in therapists’ pay] would be as great as nearly 26 percent. Companies, including those who supported families who brought the lawsuit, say care could be disrupted for tens...
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Consultant Says Costs A...

Arkansas Online: Dismang: Switch More To Traditional Medicaid Arkansas officials should consider transferring more high-cost enrollees from the private option to the traditional, fee-for-service Medicaid program, a sponsor of the law that created the program said Monday. At a meeting of...
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Many Toddlers Fail To G...

Many babies born to mothers who are covered by Medicaid are automatically eligible for that coverage during the first year of their lives. In a handful of states, the same is true for babies born to women covered by the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Yet, this smart approach is...
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