State highlights: Texas waits for feds’ ok on higher Medicaid payments

California schools may give students insulin injections and other medications without having to call in licensed nurses, the state’s highest court ruled Monday. … The unanimous decision was a defeat for the powerful California Nurses Assn., which had argued that only licensed health care workers could administer medicine under a state law that bars the unauthorized practice of nursing (Dolan, 8/12).

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