USA investigates runaway Medicaid costs
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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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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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The nation&#39;s pharmacists are reaping windfall profits at the expense of Medicaid, the government health care program for the poor.
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Millions of Medicaid patients and their pharmacists could be in for a nasty surprise Oct. 1.
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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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New Yorkâs attorney general is looking into whether insurers overcharged patients for out-of-network doctors.
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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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In these times when Michigan residents, like most Americans, are struggling to meet the escalating cost of prescription drugs, state officials are offering needed assistance.
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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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Health insurance may be out of reach for more Americans as medical costs rose faster than worker income in the first half of the year, according to a closely watched survey released on Thursday.
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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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ATLANTA -- Some states are warning that hundreds of thousands of poor children could lose their health insurance if Congress doesn't act soon to come through with more money for the program.
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U.S. researchers tracking government health care spending on illegal immigrants found that most of the money goes to childbirth costs and pregnancy complications, a study conducted in North Carolina showed.
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WASHINGTON -- Millions of Medicaid patients and their pharmacists could be in for a nasty surprise Oct. 1.
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Some poor children in Ohio who qualify for flu shots may have to wait for them because of questions over doctors being reimbursed through a Medicaid program.
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Joseph Glazier has seen the cost of his phone service double this year and his utility bills could do the same. He cannot ride the bus for free anymore. Subsidized prescriptions for his ailing eyes and ears have long since stopped.
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Fraud in the &#36;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 Wednesday.