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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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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.
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Warning that new legislation poses a threat to patient privacy, Wisconsin physicians are mounting a last-ditch campaign to kill legislation that would enable the state to collect financial and claims data directly from physicians' offices.
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According to a General Accounting Office report, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should ensure that state quality assurance efforts adequately protect the health and welfare of Medicaid beneficiaries covered under home and community-based service waivers.
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For Penny Black, the director of home and community services with the Washington Department of Social and Health Services, the GAO report, which is raising questions about quality assurance for Medicaid beneficiaries services by home and community service waivers, is worrisome for its potential impact on the programs, especially when political leaders say future waivers should not be approved until the quality issues are addressed.
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Imagine if your family car came in separate parts so that you had to decide which parts were needed, find where you could buy them, and then assemble them yourself. With no overall design for the car and no quality management to make sure the parts fit and determine how well the car is working, what kind of a vehicle do you think youd have and how would you determine how cost-effective it was? That analogy impressed a number of people in Maine as they developed their states response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Olmstead case involving state efforts to provide services to the disabled in a coordinated, least-restrictive environment.
