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Walgreens settles Medicaid billing allegations

October 1, 2008 — 12:44pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Pharmacy chain store giant Walgreens has agreed to pay the U.S. and four additional states, $9.9 million to resolve allegations that it falsely billed the Medicaid program. According to the... Read more...

States aren't reporting Medicaid provider sanctions

August 13, 2008 — 2:12pm ET | By Anne Zieger
A new report from the HHS inspector general's office suggests that states are routinely failing to report when they sanction health providers participating in the Medicaid program. When providers are... Read more...

California HealthCare Foundation donates $10M for low-interest clinic loans

August 7, 2008 — 12:14pm ET | By Anne Zieger
The California HealthCare Foundation has contributed $10 million to a low-interest loan pool that helps clinics for the poor and uninsured provide care during the state's budget impasse. This follows... Read more...

Audit finds that IL Medicaid paid providers late

June 13, 2008 — 6:59am ET
An audit of Illinois'' Medicaid program has found that a $1.5 billion financial shortfall led to delays in paying physicians, hospitals and nursing homes over recent years. However, in recent times... Read more...

NY Medicaid will stop paying for 'never events'

June 6, 2008 — 6:59am ET
New York's Medicaid program has decided to stop reimbursing for avoidable hospital complications and medical errors it considers to be "never events." Starting in October, it won't pay for care... Read more...

Federal judge smacks down CMS reg limiting Medicaid use

May 27, 2008 — 6:59am ET
A federal judge based in Washington state has taken the side of hospitals in a dispute over the use of Medicaid reimbursement to subsidize safety-net services. In a move that the judge ruled was... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: IL critics say there's been too many hospital mergers; TN Medicaid patient wins right to experimental treatment cos

May 27, 2008 — 6:59am ET
> Illinois critics are challenging the volume of hospital mergers taking place there, arguing that there's been just too much consolidation. Read more...

Health plans drop out of CT Medicaid over disclosure rules

May 13, 2008 — 6:59am ET
Connecticut's Medicaid program is struggling to regain its equilibrium after a standoff over new provider contracting disclosure rules prompted a handful of health plans to jump ship. In 2007, Gov.... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: NJ flunks Medicaid security audit; Study says infants aren't getting vaccines on time; and much more...

May 5, 2008 — 6:59am ET
> New Jersey's Medicaid program has flunked a state security audit, which found that the program isn't doing enough to monitor who looks at sensitive data. Read more...

Louisiana MDs win legal battle over patient record disclosure

April 18, 2008 — 6:59am ET
A group of Louisiana physicians have won their battle to keep their patients' records out of the hands of a pharmaceutical company--though they may face future challenges on the issue. The dispute... Read more...
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