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Medicaid waivers pave way for reform
Drugmakers have paid $8 billion in fraud fines
The nation's largest drugmakers have paid at least $8 billion in fines for repeatedly defrauding Medicare and Medicaid over the past decade, but they remain in business with the federal government because they are often the sole suppliers of critical products, records show.
Read the Article>Doctors' prescriptions raise suspicions of Medicaid fraud
Minnesota officials are reporting a handful of doctors to the state medical board for potential disciplinary action because of the amount of addictive painkillers and potent psychotropic drugs they have prescribed.
Read the Article>Sen. Sanders unveils report on nation's 'dental crisis'
Liberal firebrand Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released a report Wednesday that concludes America faces a "dental crisis" and urgently needs to boost the number of dentists and dental assistants while expanding Medicaid's dental benefit to cover adults.
Read the Article>NY probe results in Medicaid overbilling recovery
A New York state commission says a joint investigation has resulted in recovering more than $153,000 in Medicaid funds overbilled for services to the disabled.
Read the Article>A Shift From Nursing Homes to Managed Care at Home
Faced with soaring health care costs and shrinking Medicare and Medicaid financing, nursing home operators are closing some facilities and embracing an emerging model of care that allows many elderly patients to remain in their homes and still receive the medical and social services available in institutions.
Read the Article>Obama Blocks California From Charging for Care in Medicaid
The Obama administration blocked an effort by California to charge Medicaid patients for emergency room visits and hospital stays and allow health-care providers to turn away those who couldn’t pay.
Read the Article>Even With Insurance, Unemployed Have Worse Health Outcomes
People without jobs who have health insurance are less likely to get medical care or prescription drugs than people with jobs who have such coverage, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday.
Read the Article>Health care reform lawsuit: States file legal arguments against Medicaid expansion
Twenty-six states on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to overturn the health care reform law’s mandatory state expansion of the Medicaid program, a sleeper issue in the health care reform lawsuit that could determine how much leverage the federal government has with the states on any issue.
Read the Article>Legal Forecast: The Supreme Court Won't Strike Health Reform -- Part II
