Topic: Medicaid
An Indiana health insurance program designed to increase individuals' awareness of health care costs may not be extended past its initial run now that national health reform has become law.. Daniels has asked the Obama administration if Healthy Indiana -- which is ...
The House late in May adopted a jobs bill without an extension of enhanced Medicaid funding, prompting a scramble from Senate Democrats to add back the Medicaid support.. The Senate version of the jobs bill would continue enhanced Medicaid stimulus funding through ...
Medicaid is set for a big expansion under health-care overhaul legislation - the CBO estimates 16 million new enrollees in that program and state children's health programs, while a Kaiser Family Foundation report puts the number at 23 million. A review out ...
New estimate shows federal health care overhaul will cost Indiana $2.9 billion in next decadeA new estimate shows the federal health care overhaul will cost Indiana at least $2.9 billion over the next decade.That estimate released Friday from an outside actuary hired ...
Arizona will not end its Children's Health Insurance Program and has tentatively reversed Medicaid eligibility cuts adopted in March.. Arizona's Medicaid cuts would have reduced eligibility for adults beginning in January 2011. The reversal assumes that Congress will provide an additional six ...
Investors were caught by surprise last week when the big drug firms lowered their financial outlooks through 2011. The second provision is an increase in the discount that pharma companies must provide the government, in the form of a rebate, for the ...
And now it's Bristol-Myers Squibb's turn. The changes being implemented this year - including higher Medicaid rebates, the taxation of retiree drug subsidies and a discount on brand name drugs for Medicare Part D participants marooned in the doughnut hole - have ...
HEALTH OVERHAUL IMPACT: Drugmaker Merck & Co. expects the health care legislation passed last month to cost it about $320 million this year.COST BREAKDOWN: About half of that, $170 million, is from the expected reduction in revenues from paying bigger Medicaid rebates; ...
Merck is weighing in on how it sees health-care overhaul provisions affecting its outlook, and the news isn't so bad. The drugmaker says sales will be trimmed by about $170 million this year and between $300 million and $350 million in 2011 ...
Baxter yesterday became the latest company in the drug and medical-supply field to reduce its outlook because of health-care overhaul elements such as immediate increases in Medicaid discounts.. Baxter reduced its 2010 earnings estimate, mostly due to a slowing market for its ...
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MEDICAID CUTS
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Medicaid Cuts Fallout
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Alabama Dental Fight
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