Tennessee to Cut Health Program
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Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Wednesday that Tennessee planned to dissolve its financially troubled program expanding Medicaid, a decision that would cut as many as 430,000 people from state health care rolls.
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The multi-billion-dollar health care programthat helps fund everything from medical colleges to insurance for poor children may run a shortfall by the end of the state fiscal year.
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BALTIMORE -- The state health department has suggested $480 million in potential program cuts that would deprive thousands of children of free health insurance coverage and could force women to pay for their own laboratory tests after rapes.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Governor Bredesen and the leading advocate for TennCare enrollees may have their differences, but they agree controlling the health care program&#39;s skyrocketing drug costs is key to saving 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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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Gov. Phil Bredesen announced yesterday that the state plans to dissolve TennCare. Up to 430,000 people will be cut from the financially troubled supplemental Medicaid program barring a reprieve.
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New plans to cut health service waiting lists in Scotland are due to be set out at Holyrood.
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Drug wholesaler Cardinal Health Inc. (CAH) on Monday set a restructuring plan that involves cutting 4,200 jobs, or 7 percent of its work force, and closing 25 facilities around the world.
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The spending cuts include a reduction in benefits for about 340,000 people enrolled in a health insurance program for the working poor.
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Supporters of Tennessee&#39;s plan to cut spending on its expanded Medicaid program believe it could be a model for other states fighting rising health-care costs.
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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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MONDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- President Bush's proposed $2.9 trillion federal budget, unveiled Monday, calls for health care spending cuts, including a major five-year reduction in Medicare expenditures to slow the program's annual growth rate from 6.5 percent to 5.6 percent.
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First Horizon National Corp , the largest bank in Tennessee, said on Wednesday that it plans to eliminate at least 1,500 jobs by the middle of next year as it slashes its mortgage sales force and closes branches.
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The state reversed itself Tuesday on a cut in Medicaid reimbursement for in-patient psychiatric care after hospital representatives showed it would reduce the number of Indiana&#39;s mental health beds.
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DUBLIN, Ohio - Cardinal Health Inc., a medical products and services company, plans to cut 4,200 jobs, or about 7 percent of its work force, and close 25 offices as part of a three-year restructuring plan, the company said Monday.
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Tennessee's health care plan for the state's most vulnerable residents, once hailed as an example for the nation, is on the ropes.
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CHICAGO, Nov. 30  Â Cardinal Health said Thursday that it planned to divest itself of its ailing drug manufacturing business, sending its shares up more than 5 percent.