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Senate confirms Tavenner to run health insurance programs with bigger budget than Pentagon
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A former intensive care nurse with a businesslike approach to a politically divisive public policy area won Senate approval Wednesday to run Medicare and other major health insurance programs. By an overwhelming 91-7 vote, the...Tags: Eric Cantor, Barack Obama, Politics, Insurance, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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Southeastern Indiana psychologist loses state license after admitting Medicaid fraud, theft
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former southeastern Indiana psychologist has surrendered her state license after admitting she fraudulently billed the Medicaid program for patient therapy she never provided. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller (ZEHL'-ur)...Tags: Government Health Care, Theft, Psychologists, Health and Medical Professionals, Health Insurance
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Hospital revenues up, along with charity care
Hospitals in the region generally showed strengthened bottom lines in 2012, even as demand for charity care grew, a new report on the state of Pennsylvania's hospitals shows. Spending on charity and unpaid medical bills ticked up last year, but...
Tags: Government Health Care, Health Insurance, Breast Cancer, Social Issues, Finance
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Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota part of national settlement with drug company
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota will get more than $1 million as its share of a national settlement with a pharmaceutical manufacturer that allegedly distributed substandard drugs. Jackley says South Dakota...Tags: Government Health Care, Health Insurance, Government, National Government, Politics
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Here is the latest Indiana news from The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former southeastern Indiana psychologist has surrendered her state license after admitting she fraudulently billed Medicaid for patient therapy she never provided. Seventy-year-old Medea Woods of Rising Sun also was sentenced...Tags: Government Health Care, Health Insurance, U.S. Supreme Court, Science and Technology, Behavioral Conditions
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State's Medicaid Processing On Trial; Suit Charges Lack Of Staff Has Created Backlog
The Hartford CourantThe state Department of Social Services is either understaffed, overworked and unable to process Medicaid applications on time, or just starting to recover from a few rough years of layoffs, depending on who was speaking Tuesday in the first day of a...Tags: Justice System, Government Health Care, Social Services, Health Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice
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Florida officials announce details to halt public-assistance fraud
Florida officials are cracking down on those who rip off taxpayers by defrauding public-assistance programs — a crime estimated to cost the state as much as $1.35 billion last year. On Tuesday, leaders from the Department of Children and Families...
Tags: Government Health Care, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Media Industry, Health Insurance, Criminals
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John David Dyche: Beshear wrong to expand Medicaid
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear is expanding Medicaid eligibility by executive fiat. His action is wrong in several respects. About one of every five Kentuckians is already on Medicaid, the joint federal — and state health care program for low...Tags: Government Health Care, Executive Branch, Health Insurance, Personal Income, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Florida prepares for massive insurance signup
WASHINGTON – Facing the next big health-care challenge in Florida, Uncle Sam plans to enlist hundreds of consumer "navigators" over the next several months to help enroll up to 3.5 million uninsured state residents by January, when everyone is...Tags: Government Health Care, Labor Legislation, Health and Safety at School, Broward County, Health Insurance
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Medicaid Task Force meeting in Rapid City
RAPID CITY, S.D. - The discussion of expanding Medicaid in the State of South Dakota got underway Monday afternoon in Rapid City. During the last legislative session, Governor Dennis Daugaard did not recommend an expansion; which would mean close to 50,...
Tags: Government Health Care, Executive Branch, Health Insurance, Dennis Daugaard, Government
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Mayo: Hypocritical Fla. House gets cheap health insurance
Sun SentinelFlorida House, hypocrisy is thy name. At least when it comes to the health care debate. Today's outrage story of the day comes courtesy of Tia Mitchell of the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee bureau, who reports that Florida House members...Tags: Government Health Care, Health Insurance Cost, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida)
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Liz Dudek: AHCA's role in health facility oversight
Many Floridians are familiar with the Agency for Health Care Administration as the entity that runs the Florida Medicaid program. That is true, but we also have oversight of more than 45,000 health care facilities and providers, from acute care centers...Tags: Government Health Care, Nursing Homes, Health Insurance, Delray Beach, Medicare
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