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Managed Care December 2001	CMS Medicaid Managed Care Proposal Under Close Scrutiny Bioterrorism. Medicaid managed care plans. No link between them? Guess again. It all has to do with how proposed Medicaid regulations would affect patients' rights and funding for Medicaid programs ranging from nursing home care to emergency rooms...
Managed Care December 2001	Economic Boom Over, State Health Budgets Besieged The National Association of State Budget Officers estimated that aggregate state shortfalls for fiscal 2002 could exceed $15 billion...
Salon.com October 21, 1999 Dena Bunis	Uninsured children A new report says there are still too many kids without health coverage.
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Howard Gleckman	The New Face Of Medicaid Seniors and the disabled are pushing the program to the breaking point.
Managed Care April 2005 John Carroll	Can Managed Care Programs Rein in Medicaid's Runaway Budgets? Cadillac or Yugo care for the poor? Fee-for-service or managed care? The states have a lot on their minds as the Medicaid monster grows and grows.
Managed Care April 2002	More Than Just 'Chipping' Away at Problem of Uninsured Children CHIP (the Children's Health Insurance Program) continues to grow by leaps and bounds. About 4.6 million children in the U.S. received coverage through CHIP in fiscal year 2001. That's an increase of 38 percent from fiscal year 2000...
Managed Care August 2002	24 States Hope Pharmacy Plus Helps Medicaid Twenty-four states may gamble that providing a prescription drug program to low-income elderly who do not qualify for Medicaid could save them money in the long run.
Managed Care August 2000 Carey Lee Straetz	Managing Medicaid Rolls Often State-by-State Affair Despite the strong economy, Medicaid enrollment may be slowly rising after a three-year decline. The challenges for serving this population are huge.
Managed Care October 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	How We Got It Anyway: The Clinton Health Plan Never Died As a whole, the plan unceremoniously crashed and burned. But it still frames state and national debate about health policy, thus affecting the evolution of managed care...
Managed Care March 2002 Michael Levin-Epstein	Illinois's Medicare Drug Program Called 1st Stab at National Reform The Illinois demonstration program gives the state permission to use federal and state Medicaid dollars to provide prescription drug coverage for 365,000 low-income, elderly Medicare beneficiaries...
Managed Care July 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Managed Medicaid Business Might Be Worth the Difficulties Financial, regulatory, and access problems continue. Still, this remains a growth industry and some have found a way to profit.
Managed Care March 2001	Maine Gets HCFA Waiver for Drug Discount Program The Health Care Financing Administration has given Maine officials clearance to offer a discount prescription program to 200,000 people without a pharmacy benefit...
The Motley Fool February 6, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Dealing With a Disability: Part 2 An unexpected illness or injury that leaves you disabled can be devastating both personally and financially. You hope it'll never happen, but if it does, be prepared.
Managed Care February 2007	Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage Rates Falling A new report says that that 61 percent of non-elderly Americans had employer-sponsored insurance in 2004, compared to 66 percent in 2000.
Managed Care July 2002	Despite Deficits, States Avoid Cutting Medicaid, CHIP Rolls Although states are straining to close budget deficits, they have refrained from introducing stringent eligibility requirements for the CHIP and Medicaid programs.
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 Howard Gleckman	Radical Surgery For Medicaid? South Carolina Governor Sanford has a plan to slash costs - but a political battle looms.
Managed Care August 2002 Madeleine A. Estabrook	Regulators Take More Interest In Role of PBMs in Health Care In a highly regulated industry such as health care, it is just a matter of time before every component of the industry comes under scrutiny and review. Pharmacy benefit managers are taking center stage now.
Managed Care January 2001 Bob Carlson	Ohio Struggles To Rescue Managed Medicaid Program Health plans and providers in Ohio's beleaguered Medicaid managed care program, OhioCare, welcomed its per-member, per-month payment increases of more than 25 percent over the last two years...
Managed Care April 2000 Bob Carlson	Many State Medicaid Agencies Use Financial Incentives To Boost Quality The days when state Medicaid agencies were bureaucratic establishments that paid claims and were unable to demand little better than institutional-style care are gone....
Managed Care January 2001 John Carroll	Florida Leads the Way in Attempting Disease Management for Medicaid Officials across the country are watching to see whether the Sunshine State's innovation can save money...
Managed Care December 2000 Bob Carlson	3 New England States Prescribe Innovative Ways To Cut Drug Prices It's too soon to tell whether Maine's prescription drug price control law will survive a legal challenge by drug makers. But private efforts and another innovative strategy -- a plan by Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire to purchase prescription drugs jointly -- are moving ahead...
Managed Care February 2007 John Carroll	Punishing Bad Behavior Sticks, as well as carrots, are used in some commercial and government programs to encourage beneficiaries not to undermine their health.
Managed Care May 2005	Covering the Uninsured Seen as Legislative Priority Opinion leaders say Congress should also act to improve quality and safety, and ensure Medicare solvency.
Financial Advisor May 2007 Gail Liberman	More Wrinkles Than Ever Your financial advisory clients need you to help them understand the new Medicaid rules.
Managed Care October 2003 John Carroll	Shining Light Or Shipwreck? Maine's health care reformers are on course to deliver a controversial universal care plan. But is the coast clear?
Knowledge@Wharton	Major Health Care Reform Under President Bush Remains Elusive Three of the chief health-care challenges facing the United States are: finding a way to provide coverage for the millions of uninsured, reforming Medicare, and setting up a prescription-drug plan for the elderly. The White House is likely to make headway on only the third of these in the next two years.
Managed Care September 2000 Bob Carlson	Medicaid, Prescription Drug Assistance Common Threads in Tobacco Settlement Imagine winning the lottery. But before you get too carried away, also imagine you have 10 kids and lots of poor relatives. Now you have some sense of what it's been like for states to decide how to use $8 billion in tobacco settlement money...
Salon.com August 23, 2000 Jake Tapper	Patient politics Will healthcare be the albatross around George W. Bush's neck? Al Gore thinks so.
Managed Care September 1999 Frank Diamond Senior Editor	Florida Medicaid Moves Toward Direct Contracting Florida will soon test a program that could provide competition for HMOs serving the Medicaid population. Other states are watching.
Reason October 2003 John Hood	Why the States Are Broke Bloated governments, budget gaps, and Parkinson's laws
Financial Planning November 1, 2010 Jim Grote	Special Cases Minoti Rajput, CFP, president and principal advisor of Secure Planning Strategies in Southfield, Mich., maintains a general financial planning practice and a specialized practice for families of children with disabilities.
Managed Care May 2004 John Carroll	Bush vs. Kerry: Upcoming Election Offers Real Debate on Health Care Despite the focus on the international situation, Americans are still keenly interested in just how they'll get the medical care they need.
Managed Care August 2004	Medicaid Fees Rise, But Still Below Medicare A recent study reports that 30 states raised their Medicaid fees at or above the rate of inflation, including 10 that raised physician fees by more than 35%.
Managed Care December 2002	M+C meltdown hinders access to medications The fact that health plans are abandoning Medicare+Choice at a slower rate than in previous years doesn't mask the fact that the exodus of plans only exacerbates the problem of lack of pharmaceutical coverage for the elderly.
Managed Care November 2001 Michael D. Dalzell	The Uninsured: How Health Plans Can Do Well By Doing Good While health plans battle for market share, 38 million Americans are uninsured. At least some could be signed up, but pursuing them is not without risk...
BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 John Carey	Drug Prices: A New Covenant? The states' growing negotiating clout with Big Pharma raises crucial questions
Managed Care May 2001	6-State Coalition Creating Joint Drug-Buying Pool A second multistate drug-purchasing effort is forming, this time in the Southeast. Led by West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, the group-buying effort includes Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Washington State is also participating in the talks...
Managed Care September 2000	Three New England States Form Drug-Buying Cooperative Now that the governors of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont have agreed to form a prescription drug-buying cooperative, the hard work of fleshing out the plan begins...
Registered Rep. September 18, 2013 Kevin McKinley	Having Money and Getting Medicaid Clients who want to have both their money and Medicaid may want to purchase a specific type of long-term care insurance known as a "partnership" policy, currently available to residents in 31 states.
Financial Planning September 1, 2005 M. Michael Babikian	A Delicate Balance For disabled clients, a special needs trust can maximize private sources of funding without jeopardizing public ones.
Managed Care October 2001	CMS Defends Plan To Let States Tailor Medicaid Benefits Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Thomas Scully has defended the Bush administration's plan to allow states to opt out of mandatory Medicaid-coverage requirements...
Managed Care November 2007 Cyril F. Chang	Evolution of TennCare Yields Valuable Lessons TennCare is one of the most controversial Medicaid experiments in the recent history of state-level health care reform. Its near collapse led to a more realistic approach to providing coverage to the uninsured in Tennessee.
CIO April 15, 2006 Allan Holmes	Maine's Medicaid Mistakes Maine's attempt to build a new Medicaid claims processing system is a classic example of how not to run a massive project.
Managed Care May 2002 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Thomas Scilly In a candid, wide-ranging interview, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator counsels patience in solving the myriad problems of health care. A fix could take 20 years
Salon.com July 7, 2000 Joshua Micah Marshall	Such a kidder! George W. "We'll love the babies" Bush says he's a champion of children in Texas. Roughly 200,000 of them might disagree.