Category: CMS
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Virginia lawmakers pass budget with language to block Medicaid expansion
The two-year spending plan, which will prevent a state government shutdown, includes an amendment designed to prevent Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe from pursuing efforts to expand the low-income health insurance program without legislative approval. …read more
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First Edition: June 16, 2014
Today’s headlines include more analysis of the events that led to a resolution of Virginia’s budget impasse and Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s hope to expand Medicaid. …read more
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Virginia lawmakers to consider fast-track budget plan without Medicaid expansion
The $96 billion spending plan unveiled by state house leaders yesterday could break the logjam and prevent a looming state government shutdown after a partisan battle over Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s plan to expand the low-income health insurance program was resolved earlier this week with the resignation of a Democratic senator. …read more
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First Edition: June 13, 2014
Today’s headlines include various updates on what Virginia lawmakers did in an attempt to resolve the state’s budget impasse and Medicaid expansion debate. …read more
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Viewpoints: GOP and governing; Va. Medicaid expansion chances falling fast; private care for vets
The forces of political nihilism not only remain alive and well within the Republican Party, but they are on the rise. …read more
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Questions arising over how Medicare evaluates hospital patients
A new study examines how Medicare categorizes hospital errors and the controversy over “observation care” continues. …read more
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Viewpoints: Cantor was no RINO; battles over Medicaid in Va. and Ind.; reforms moving for VA
Ideas have consequences. Elections sure do, too. David Brat’s victory over Eric Cantor is stunning, to state the glaringly obvious. … Brat’s victory also moves the Virginia GOP even further to the right. No one ever could have mistaken Cantor -; who organized 50 votes to repeal Obamacare -; for a RINO, let alone a…
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Va. governor examining ways to expand Medicaid by executive action
In related news, The Oklahoman reports that Mercy health system is blaming states’ decisions to not expand the low-income health care program as the reason it is planning layoffs, and KHN details Michigan’s expansion efforts. …read more
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Risk factors for hospital readmissions identified in stroke patients
Hospital readmission, an important measure of quality care, costs the United States an estimated $17 billion each year. And according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about half of those readmissions could be avoided. …read more
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8.5 million on Medicare get opioids
The number of senior citizens getting narcotic painkillers and anti-anxiety medications under Medicare’s prescription drug program is climbing sharply, and those older patients are being put on the drugs for longer periods of time, a USA TODAY examination of federal data shows. …read more