Health Overhaul, Aging Population Push Health and Human Services Budget …

Health overhaul, aging population push Health and Human Services budget …
Those include an assortment of reductions affecting service providers, from hospitals to rehab centers to drug companies. Obama also called for stepped-up use of competitive bidding to procure medical equipment. And his budget voiced support for a …
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Advocate, Loyola on launch team for Medicaid cost-cut project
In an ACE, providers manage the care of a group of Medicaid patients and eventually will have to assume the financial responsibility for all treatment within a fixed amount of money per patient. They potentially could share in savings with the state.
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Treatment centers show support for medicaid expansion
BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)– It is the topic which has caused heated debates and a divide down party lines. Should the state expand Medicaid or Mainecare as it is called in this state. Since the first of the year many have been dropped and some …
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