Audit: State wastes Medicaid funds
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THE GAZETTE. DENVER - Coloradoâs Medicaid program is wasting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars because the programâs prescription drug system is managed poorly, according to an audit released Monday.
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Governor Ed Rendell says the state has averted disaster by winning federal approval of more than $1,000,000,000 in additional Medicaid funding over the next four years.
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Unless Congress acts and President Bush relents in the next week, states will have to return more than $1 billion in money intended to pay for health insurance for children from low-income families.
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FOR YEARS the state has provided free testing to detect breast or cervical cancer in low-income women. But until this year there were no funds to treat women who lacked insurance but were ineligible for Medicaid.
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Less than 1 percent of Medicaid spending went to health care for illegal immigrants, according to a study that the researchers said defied a common belief that they are a bigger drain on taxpayer money.
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US taxpayers are overpaying for medicines for poor Medicaid patients and the system is ripe for an overhaul next year, lawmakers in both parties said on Tuesday.
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The US government may not be spending enough on oversight of state activities that uncover and deter fraud in the Medicaid health program, according to a congressional watchdog agency report released Thursday.
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State budget pressures threaten to undo gains in health insurance coverage for children and the poor, according to two surveys released Monday.
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The Bush administration is restricting the ability of states to expand Medicaid in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes.
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New Health and Human Services  Secretary Mike Leavitt on Tuesday called for changes in the  Medicaid program for the poor, including an end to overpayment  for some prescription drugs.
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Tennessee plans to dissolve TennCare, a program that expands Medicaid coverage, a decision that would cut as many as 430,000 people from state health care rolls.
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Federal officials are sending auditors to state capitals across the country to investigate techniques used by states to shift hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid costs to the federal government.
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The nation's governors urged President Bush on Wednesday to spare states the costs of Medicaid in an effort to reduce the federal deficit.
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The Bush administration issued a new rule Friday that eliminates Medicaid reimbursement for certain transportation and administrative tasks undertaken by schools on behalf of students with disabilities.
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The University of Washington said yesterday it overbilled the government $3.6 million during the period that was the subject of the federal investigation into its Medicare and Medicaid billing practices, an amount in sharp contrast to government estimates
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JACKSON, Miss. - Before she suffered a stroke and died, Ruth Grant was worried about losing her Medicaid benefits, her husband says.
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About a third of the payments from tobacco companies to the states goes to health care and tobacco control, government auditors said Tuesday.