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NewsFTC: Antitrust bill would lead to higher costs
A proposal in the Texas state legislature that would exempt state-certified healthcare collaboratives--those organizations composed of hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers--from Read more...
Double-digit Medicaid growth pile-drives Texas budget
Not only is Texas facing a shortfall of $11 billion to $15 billion when the next state budget is due in 2011, but unanticipated healthcare costs have already driven the state's current two-year Read more...
HHS Inspector General criticizes Medicaid claims in three states
After an in-depth audit, the HHS Office of the Inspector General has come down hard on Medicaid officials in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Texas, suggesting that each had filed claims for more Read more...
Texas may prohibit forced nurse overtime
Texas may soon become the second state in the U.S. to ban mandatory overtime for nurses, following a similar law enacted in Pennsylvania on July 1. States have varied degrees of overtime Read more...
TX legislators propose standard for valuing hospital charity care
A work group appointed by Texas legislators has proposed a standard for calculating the cost of charity care provided by the state's non-profit hospitals, with the idea of determining the actual Read more...
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