Lawmakers to Seek New Pay Plan for Medicaid Drugs
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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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Maryland leaders raised hopes yesterday for a special session of the General Assembly next month that would focus on curbing insurance rate increases for doctors, but acknowledged that key details
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Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton of  New York and Henry Waxman of California will introduce  legislation on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug  Administration the legal authority to approve cheaper, generic  versions of biotech drugs known as biologics, the lawmakers  said.
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U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen is preparing legislation that would allow states to make prescription drugs more affordable for low- and moderate-income Americans, a challenge to Bush administration policies that have thwarted such efforts in Maryland and elsewhere.
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Fearful that President Bush plans to shift more Medicaid costs to the states, the nation&#39;s governors are mounting a bipartisan lobbying effort to stave off new federal limits on the program.
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The commissioner of the stateâs Department of Health and Human Services visited nonprofits across Portsmouth on Tuesday to share his future plans on Medicaid and hear suggestions from the workers in the field.
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WASHINGTON -- Efforts to allow Americans access to cheaper prescription drugs from abroad should blossom once Democrats assume control in Congress, but the issue won't be a top priority, lawmakers and healthcare experts said.
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The Bush administration will propose sweeping reductions in payments to pharmacies as a way to save money for Medicaid.
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The move to pay for medical malpractice insurance relief with a tax that Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) has previously vetoed is setting the stage for a tenuous special legislative session next week.
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Taxpayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if soaring Medicaid reimbursements for prescription medicines more closely matched
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President Bush is readying a new budget that would carve savings from Medicaid and other benefit programs, congressional aides and lobbyists say, but it is unclear if he will be able to push the plan through the Republican-run Congress.
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A House of Representatives  subcommittee is expected to take up legislation next week meant  to bolster the Food and Drug Administration&#39;s ability to  monitor prescription drug side effects, the panel&#39;s chairman  said in a letter released on Thursday.
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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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Rising cost projections for the new Medicare drug benefit alarmed U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday and set off renewed calls to restrain spiraling drug prices and allow pharmaceutical imports from Canada.
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CONCORD, NH -- Federal health officials posed several questions to the state Thursday about proposed Medicaid changes. Health authorities want to know how the state would set limits on care, how it would decide
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Lawmakers on Thursday pieced together legislation extending popular tax breaks and saving doctors from a cut in Medicare payments as Republicans prepared to cede control of Congress to the Democrats.
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Pharmaceutical and advertising industry lobbyists who thwarted attempts in the Senate to rein in drug advertising now turn their attention to the House of Representatives, which is scheduled to take up legislation to overhaul the Food and Drug Administration today.