Tennessee to End Expanded Medicaid Program
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Tennessee's expanded Medicaid system will be replaced with a cheaper, more basic program, leaving 430,000 poor and disabled people without coverage, the governor said.
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A Minnesota psychiatrist who received more than $350,000 in speaking and consulting fees from pharmaceutical companies will quit a panel that advises the state on drugs for low-income Medicaid patients.
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Senate and House negotiators from both parties reached a final deal yesterday on an expansion of a health insurance program for the children of the working poor, just a day after President Bush vowed to veto it.
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Connecticut and Tennessee, the top two programs in women's college basketball, are ending their series, the schools announced yesterday.
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Federal authorities have announced that a Bethesda nursing home already under scrutiny by state officials in connection with the deaths of two patients could lose its Medicaid certification this month because of concerns about the care it provides.
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Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen announced this afternoon at a Nashville news conference that he has begun the process of pulling the plug on TennCare.
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President Bush conducted a chat session in Chattanooga, Tenn., with people who are uninsured about his plan to expand health coverage.
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The state&#39;s largest insurer, with handles claims for about 700,000 of TennCare&#39;s 1.3 million members, would be a likely bidder to administer all of a revised Medicaid program next year, Gov.
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ROGERSVILLEâMore than 14,000 Hawkins County residents enrolled in the TennCare program will begin learning after the first of the year how they will personally be affected if a decision to dissolve the program is implemented.
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The states, including New York, say that new rules for a federal health insurance program for poor children will force some out and leave others who would be eligible without coverage.
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The drumbeat of bad news about TennCare moved to a routine state departmental budget hearing yesterday afternoon, while negotiations closed to the public continued in an effort to save the pricey health-care program.
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Governor Bredesen, the Republican want-to-be Democratic Governor of Tennessee, announced today his intentions to eliminate TennCare, the generous health care program which provides health insurance to 1.3 million Tennesseans.
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Emergency room doctors at Mary Washington Hospital have ended their contract with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the largest private health insurer in the state.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Health care advocate Gordon Bonnyman received angry e-mails as word spread that Governor Bredesen was ending TennCare.
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Fraud in the $300 billion-a-year Medicaid program is widespread and the federal government is not doing enough to combat it, congressional investigators said in a report released on Wednesday.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President George W. Bush on Saturday signed into law a temporary extension of a popular health insurance program for children after months of deadlock with the Democratic-led Congress.
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Tommy G. Thompson resigned today as secretary of health and human services, becoming the eighth member of President Bush&#39;s Cabinet to quit as Mr.