State Medicare group takes watchdog, education roles
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The Illinois Foundation for Health Care helps the flow of services funded by Medicare, the federal health-care program for seniors, to beneficiaries in Illinois.
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Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn&#39;s reputation as a watchdog for the health and education of children is summed up in a needlepoint decoration in her office: &quot;One
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Providers of medical equipment in two hotbeds of Medicare fraud &#151; Los Angeles and South Florida &#151; will have to reapply to do business with the government and undergo inspections, officials said Monday.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A groundbreaking Minnesota law is shining a rare light into the big money that drug companies spend on members of state advisory panels who help select which drugs are used in Medicaid programs for the poor and disabled.
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A bipartisan panel of governors has recommended that states expand access to pre-kindergarten and push for early childhood education efforts if they want to properly prepare kids for school.
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U.S. Medicare officials sought a  compromise with private insurers on Monday by dividing the  country into more regions, a ruling that could encourage more  firms to broaden their health care plan offerings to the  elderly.
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A Senate commission studying Maryland's medical malpractice crisis gave some ground yesterday on legal changes sought by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) and endorsed the creation of a state fund that would subsidize doctors' insurance costs for the next four years.
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Groups representing most facets of the nation's health care system are lining up in support of a large spending increase for a popular children's insurance program.
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The U.S. government hopes to entice  companies into offering the elderly cost-saving prescription  drug benefits next year while making sure they have access to  most medicines, according to Medicare rules issued on Friday.
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Medicare is paying for new and expensive treatments and tests conditional on agreement by companies or other groups to pay for studies on whether they actually worked.
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US Medicare officials sought a compromise with private insurers on Monday by dividing the country into more regions, a ruling that could encourage more firms to broaden
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A $34 million reform plan released Tuesday in Austin is meant to bolster the state&#39;s elder care program. The Health and Human Services Commission released the overhaul for Adult Protective Services, as part of a review ordered in April by Gov.
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Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Thursday that his office is reviewing a state contract awarded to a health care network to provide managed care services to thousands of poor, single adults.
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A day before the first presidential debate, the government's health policy watchdog raised concerns that early mailings to seniors about the new Medicare prescription discount cards championed by President Bush were confusing or inadequate.
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Many companies are playing a bigger role in managing and monitoring their workersâ health in an effort to cut health care costs.
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Officials are considering plans to hire private groups at taxpayer expense to manage scores of public schools.
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A US group advising Medicare on its new prescription drug benefit released a proposal on Thursday that could determine how likely the latest medicines are to be covered for the elderly.