Medicaid spends 1 pct on illegal immigrants: study
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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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Only 1,200 people have signed on to Gov. Rod Blagojevich&#39;s program to help residents in Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri import prescription drugs from Europe and Canada, but
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Nearly one of every seven Michigan residents is eligible for Medicaid, the state&#39;s primary health care safety net for the poor and uninsured.
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The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period, congressional investigators say.
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A blistering audit claims the state&#39;s Medicaid system is in such disarray that 1.4 million pills are missing, thousands of people who are dead or lack Social Security numbers are getting millions of dollars in benefits and abuse of mental patients may be
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BY LAW, hospitals provide free emergency care for illegal immigrants. But the costs are bruising, and pending federal regulations could scare away patients.
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Medicare will be mailing out 1.8 million drug discount cards to low-income Americans who are eligible but have not yet applied. The cards will allow low-income earners to qualify for an additional $1,200 in
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Medicaid is &quot;excessively overpaying pharmacists&quot; for prescription drugs, according to a government study presented Tuesday at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee&#39;s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, CongressDaily reports (Heil
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The US government has launched a four-year, $1 billion program to pay some of the emergency room costs of treating illegal immigrants, but it has backed off plans to require hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status.
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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LOS ANGELES - Proponents of stricter immigration controls are trying to use the courts to make public health officials collect medical fees from the sponsors of legal immigrants who can&#39;t pay their bills.
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The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period
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The number of illegal immigrants   dying while trying to cross the Mexican border to enter the   United States has almost doubled since the late-1990s,   according to the report by the investigative arm of Congress.
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The State Department announced a $1 million emergency fund Thursday to help cover such expenses as legal fees and medical bills for human rights activists.
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A federal judge has ruled that groups   attacking a new law requiring Medicaid recipients to show proof   of citizenship do not have legal standing to make such a   challenge, a lawyer in the case said on Tuesday.
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One of the most common forms of identity theft involves illegal immigrants using fraudulent Social Security numbers.
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The federal government has told New York State that chemotherapy, which had been covered for illegal immigrants under a Medicaid provision, does not qualify for coverage.