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In an effort to understand how the sale of a major non-profit hospital to a for-profit health system impacts the community it serves before the sale takes place, the California attorney general's office turned to a prominent outside consulting firm for help.
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Clip File April 1998
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Dental care, once the ignored stepchild of publicly-funded health insurance programs, has become a fundamental element of many plans submitted by states seeking to take advantage of new federal Title 21 funding for Child Health Insurance Programs.
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In a flurry of activity, the Health Care Financing Administration has approved five state children's insurance programs since late March.
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Rejecting a proposal to create a high-risk pool as a cure for an ailing insurance market, Kentucky lawmakers recently voted to try another strategy to cover individuals who may be costly to insure.
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Welfare reform has had a less disruptive effect on Medicaid coverage than many critics had feared, according to a new report by the General Accounting Office.
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Washington state officials have decided they can't rely only on the honor system to keep track of residents' eligibility for insurance subsidies under the Basic Health Plan (BHP) from year to year.
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This is the Full April Issue for State Health Watch
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Back Page Briefs 4/98
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In an effort to make HMOs more accountable to the public, the Maryland legislature has unanimously approved a compromise bill that allows the state to censure HMO medical directors for inappropriately denying health-care coverage.
