There comes a time in many people’s lives where they decide they can no longer sit on the sidelines and wait for someone else to address an issue that concerns them or someone near to them. They realize they must go after federal and local lawmakers to get issues of equity addressed. Entitlement reform may [...]
Plan to Temporarily Raise Doctors’ Medicaid Fees Causes Confusion
October 24, 2012 | Posted by
To recruit more doctors to treat the poor, President Obama’s health-care law took a simple approach: temporarily pay doctors more money. Starting Jan. 1, primary-care doctors when treating patients on Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor, will get the same rates they are paid when caring for seniors in the Medicare program. [...]
Giant Health Insurers Hope to Strike Gold Managing Care for Sickest, Poorest, Oldest
August 22, 2012 | Posted by
Giant health insurers have been gobbling up smaller ones, partly to strike gold with a new government experiment allowing them to manage care for millions of the nation’s sickest, poorest and oldest patients. Some 15 states are in different stages of creating demonstration programs that allow managed care companies to care for so-called “dual-eligible” patients [...]
GA Gov. Nathan Deal Faces $40 Billion Medicaid Dilemma
August 13, 2012 | Posted by
The AJC reports that Gov. Nathan Deal is facing a $40 billion dilemma. The federal health care law would inject that gigantic sum into Georgia’s health care economy over 10 years by adding more than 650,000 low-income Georgians to the Medicaid program. Deal, a strong opponent of the law, is wary of the proposition. The [...]
