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Medicaid is the United States health program for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and resources. It is a means-tested program that is jointly funded by the states and federal government, and is managed by the states.

First Edition: May 6, 2013

Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz, working in collaboration with The Washington Post, reports: "Florida is on course to spend $6 million to reach out to nearly 4 million uninsured people and help them sign up for coverage in the federal health law's online marketplace this fall.

6 May 2013

ApolloMed net revenues climbed 52.2% to $7.8 million during fiscal 2013

Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc., an integrated physician-driven healthcare delivery company that puts 'Patients First,' today announced its fiscal year-end results for the three and twelve months ended January 31, 2013.

5 May 2013

Study estimates ER costs for hematuria patients at more than $237 million a year

A relatively common urinary tract disorder that can usually be managed in an outpatient setting is adding an estimated $238 million a year to the cost of emergency room visits in the U.S., according to two new studies from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

5 May 2013

Viewpoints: Liberals refuse to acknowledge evidence of Oregon Medicaid study; Politics is roiling science in emergency contraception decisions

A familiar critique of liberal governance is that the results always matter less than its grand social ambitions. The latest evidence of this truth comes in the reaction to disappointing new findings from one of the most important public-policy experiments since the 1970s. A team of varsity health economists, mostly at Harvard and MIT, is studying the relationship between health outcomes and health insurance delivered by Medicaid (5/2).

4 May 2013

Research roundup: Surgical care at critical access hospitals; Digging into the cost of emergency medicine; Getting what you want for end-of-life care

During the past 15 years, the number of critical access hospitals – those with fewer than 25 acute care beds that receive higher reimbursements and other considerations from Medicare to help sustain them – has increased substantially, representing a quarter of all U.S. acute care hospitals in 2011.

4 May 2013

Highlights: New health care oversight laws in Md.; Texas hospitals negotiate over uncompensated care payments; Colo. considers psychiatric hospital for homeless

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed three laws Thursday that will give more protection for patients. The measures provide more state oversight of cosmetic surgery centers, pharmacies that make sterile medications and staffing agencies that find temporary jobs for health care professionals (Sun, 5/2).

4 May 2013

GOP sparring puts Medicaid expansion in limbo in several red states

News outlets report that several Republican governors who came out in favor of the expansion are battling with conservative lawmakers as legislative sessions wind down.

4 May 2013

Sen. Grassley pushes on in Medicare probe, reportedly seeks information about Sen. Hatch's aide

The Wall Street Journal writes that the Iowa Republican, who is looking into how investors got advance word of a Medicare financial policy decision, is also asking about comments by his Utah colleague's staffer.

4 May 2013

U.S. Department of Justice clears Aetna's proposed acquisition of Coventry Health Care

Aetna today announced the U.S. Department of Justice has cleared Aetna's proposed acquisition of Coventry Health Care, Inc. Aetna expects to complete its acquisition of Coventry within the next three business days.

4 May 2013

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals expands ophthalmology portfolio

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has expanded its ophthalmology portfolio by acquiring full exclusive rights to two families of novel antibodies invented at Regeneron and previously included in Regeneron's antibody collaboration with Sanofi.

3 May 2013

First Edition: May 3, 2013

Today's headlines include a variety of stories about the health law's implementation, including reports about the Medicaid expansion's red state prospects.

3 May 2013

Oregon study offers insights into reach of health law's Medicaid expansion

The landmark study, which was appears in The New England Journal of Medicine, analyzed data from the Oregon Health Study, which compared low-income people in that state who had access to Medicaid with a similar population that did not. The findings offer insights into how Medicaid coverage affects overall health and health costs.

3 May 2013

Viewpoints: S.C. House race spotlights Dems' discomfort with health law; Cannon, Cohn offer contrasting views of Medicaid study

The media tittering over Mrs. Colbert Busch's decision to publicly slap the former Republican governor over his extramarital affair obscured the more notable political comment of the night.

3 May 2013

Roundup: Calif. regulator says insurer's proposed rate hikes are 'unreasonable'; Iowa lawmakers push to deny abortion funding in Medicaid

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said the nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., is imposing unreasonable rate hikes on about 5,000 small businesses. Jones said Wednesday that UnitedHealth couldn't justify the average annual increase of nearly 8 percent, which reflects both higher premiums and a reduction in benefits (Terhune, 5/1).

3 May 2013

Medicaid expansion: Where do states stand?

Stateline reports that seven states could still go either way on pursuing this element of the health law. Kaiser Health News examines Arkansas' approach, viewed by many as a "deal-making compromise" for some states.

3 May 2013

GOP lawmakers offer Medicaid 'per capita cap' plan

The proposal was offered by Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., who chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee.

3 May 2013

First Edition: May 2, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about a new study detailing how expanded Medicaid access impacts beneficiaries' utilization of health care services and their overall physical health.

2 May 2013

Viewpoints: Outrage at mistaken report on Hill health coverage; Two views of Florida's option on Medicaid

Because members of Congress are accustomed to high-quality medical care provided to them through federal employee benefit programs, one might expect that they would push for top quality care to be delivered through the exchanges too.

2 May 2013

New screening guidelines: An important shift in HIV testing

Beth Meyerson, health policy expert at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, said the new screening guidelines by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force represent an important shift in HIV testing and will result in more HIV screenings because they will now be reimbursable. But the availability of the tests remains a big unknown.

2 May 2013

NY health care advocates: Medicaid managed care shuns the most disabled users

Managed-care companies in New York have come under fire for signing up vigorous older adults referred to them by social day care centers, customers whose health needs are relatively small. But on Tuesday, legal advocates for the disabled told the state's Medicaid director that the most seriously impaired people were getting the opposite treatment (Bernstein, 4/30).

2 May 2013

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First Edition: May 6, 2013

ApolloMed net revenues climbed 52.2% to $7.8 million during fiscal 2013

Study estimates ER costs for hematuria patients at more than $237 million a year

Viewpoints: Liberals refuse to acknowledge evidence of Oregon Medicaid study; Politics is roiling science in emergency contraception decisions

Research roundup: Surgical care at critical access hospitals; Digging into the cost of emergency medicine; Getting what you want for end-of-life care

Highlights: New health care oversight laws in Md.; Texas hospitals negotiate over uncompensated care payments; Colo. considers psychiatric hospital for homeless

GOP sparring puts Medicaid expansion in limbo in several red states

Sen. Grassley pushes on in Medicare probe, reportedly seeks information about Sen. Hatch's aide

U.S. Department of Justice clears Aetna's proposed acquisition of Coventry Health Care

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals expands ophthalmology portfolio

First Edition: May 3, 2013

Oregon study offers insights into reach of health law's Medicaid expansion

Viewpoints: S.C. House race spotlights Dems' discomfort with health law; Cannon, Cohn offer contrasting views of Medicaid study

Roundup: Calif. regulator says insurer's proposed rate hikes are 'unreasonable'; Iowa lawmakers push to deny abortion funding in Medicaid

Medicaid expansion: Where do states stand?

GOP lawmakers offer Medicaid 'per capita cap' plan

First Edition: May 2, 2013

Viewpoints: Outrage at mistaken report on Hill health coverage; Two views of Florida's option on Medicaid

New screening guidelines: An important shift in HIV testing

NY health care advocates: Medicaid managed care shuns the most disabled users

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