Economic Woes Accelerate Medicaid Spending
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Medicaid spending grew about  one-third from 2000 to 2003 as job losses and other economic  woes made more people eligible for the government-run health  insurance program for the poor, a new study said on Wednesday.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer is proposing cuts in Medicaid, saying the costs are too high, but a closer look at the numbers calls his claims into question.
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PHILADELPHIA - The state averted disaster by winning federal approval of more than $1 billion in Medicaid funding over the next four years, but there could be more problems in the future, Gov.
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With complicated and costly "biologics"  increasingly seen as the wave of the pharmaceutical future, health care experts warn that they will drive the nation's fast-growing bill for drugs far higher.
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Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record &#36;11.60 a month next year. The Bush administration says the increase reflects a strengthened Medicare, while Democrats complain that seniors are being unfairly socked.
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The costs of the Medicare and  Medicaid health insurance programs are rising at unsustainable  rates that will force policy makers to adopt major changes to  curb spending, the head of the Congressional Budget Office  warned on Monday.
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Numerous media reports have indicated big increases for Medicare and employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and for the number of Americans lacking health insurance.
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Thousands of Medicaid recipients, in limbo for months as to whether they will lose health coverage, received another reprieve Thursday as lawyers for Medicaid and the governor&#39;s office
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GREENVILLE -- Medical lawsuits are one of the driving forces behind skyrocketing health care costs. That&#39;s according to Secretary Tommy Thompson, of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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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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The federal government today launched a program that provides increased Medicaid payments to doctors that use electronic health records.
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Health plans with high patient-paid deductibles, embraced by many Republicans as a market-based solution to quell soaring medical-care costs, lead to poorer quality care and increasing patient debt, a study released on Thursday said.
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U.S. spending on prescription drugs, hospital care and other health services is expected to double to $4.1 trillion over the next decade, up from $2.1 trillion in 2006, a government report released on Wednesday found.
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Public health costs (Medicaid) are undermining development prospects for many state in the USA. In the state of Pennsylvania, 25% of its $51 billion budget will be dedicated to health care for the less well off.
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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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A worsening shortage of doctors, insurance premium costs growing faster than incomes, a gray and sick population scattered over a rural state - darker days lie
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Low-income patients covered by Medicaid have more complications and higher death rates after colon cancer surgery than patients with private insurance, a U.S. study suggests.