IllinoisIn Illinois, the state Medicaid program offers aHCBS Waiver. Under that waiver, participants can receive services at home. However, the range of approved services is more limited than in many states. There are also two managed Medicaid programs depending in which area of the state one ...
Mandatory provider review and pain clinic laws reduce the amounts of opioids prescribed and overdose death rates. Health Aff (Millwood). 2016;35(10):1876-1883.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 4. Cicero TJ, Ellis MS, Surratt HL, Kurtz SP. The changing face of heroin use in the United States...
Reaching Low-Income, Uninsured Children: Are Medicaid and SCHIP Doing the Job? Summary Congress has shown an on-going commitment to improving children’s access to health care as demonstrated through eligibility expansions of the Medicaid program since the 1980s, and the introduction of the State ...
HEALTH HACK ATTACK -- “Sacred Heart Health System billing information hacked” by Pensacola News Journal’s Carlos Gieseken:“[B]illing information of 14,000 Sacred Heart Health System patients was compromised recently when an employee ...
Veterans’ Affairs, which serves former military members, is an example of a single-payer health care provider, and one that has repeatedly failed its patients. For example, a computer error at the Spokane VA hospital “failed to deliver more than 11,000 orders for specialty care, lab work ...