Tens of millions of people every year decide they can’t afford or simply won’t buy health insurance. Some are out of work or underemployed. Many are young and early in their working careers, self-employed or without access to large group plans through work. The Obama administration wants to cover 30 million more people by providing …
Hillsborough County has joined an ongoing dispute over health care costs for its poorest residents. The Hillsborough County Commission on Wednesday unanimously backed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a plan to collect local Medicaid payments before billing. It approved spending $5,000 for legal costs in the Florida Association of Counties lawsuit to be filed …
The state budget and an implementing bill signed this week by Gov. Rick Scott would delay the phasing in of Medicaid managed care plans for dentistry, but Scott made clear he would support the plans in the future. The language would require the agency to continue allowing dentists to bill for Medicaid patients under the …
Medicaid remains the black sheep of the health care reform litigation. Before the six-and-a-half hours of oral argument at the end of March, commentators focused primarily on whether Congress may require a minimum level of health insurance coverage. Even the number of amicus briefs filed about 23 on the Medicaid issue versus about 78 on …
The test uses a chemical called florbetapir, known by the brand name Amyvid, which is a radioactive agent that tags clumps of a sticky substance called an amyloid. Amyloid proteins are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. The chemical, which costs $1,600 per dose, then is detected using a brain imaging technique called positron emission tomography, known …
The Obama administration’s budget proposal to cut defense spending, in part, by increasing the cost of health care for retired service members has riled veterans groups and members of Congress. via TRICARE fee increases: Hikes in cost of veterans health care draw fire – POLITICO.com.
The Age of Double Standards. Although this article addresses the historical issue of debtors, debtors prisons, and Bankruptcy, I find it interesting as the Health Care System evolves. The Number One reason for personal bankruptcy is health care bills As Health Care restructures its delivery system, watch large health care systems work their way through bankruptcy. …
“It is absolutely not sustainable. If we do nothing, this line will bankrupt our state,” Scott said at a news conference via Florida Challenges Medicaid Spending ‘By Force’ : NPR.