…the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Many communities remain under-insured and under-treated within the current system, potentially adding significantly to overall costs. A 2009 study commissioned by the Joint…
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…lowest charge for removal of an appendix was $1,529, while the highest was $182,955. The median was $33,611. Treatments for Medicaid patients were associated with a 2.3% cost increase; for…
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…77.6% of charges for NAS were covered by state Medicaid programs. Between 2000 and 2009, total hospital charges for NAS cases, adjusted for inflation, are estimated to have increased from…
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…factors, including Medicaid eligibility thresholds for adults, the characteristics of labor market, and the proximity of veterans to VA facilities, may contribute to variation across states in uninsurance rates among…
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…California Watch know that in fact this chain was doing what is called “upcoding,” turning normal conditions into more exotic ones that pay higher from Medicaid. Remington: What are some…
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…per 100,000 children in 2009.” A major demographic change in the group of abused children over time was that the percentage of cases coming from families on Medicaid increased substantially,…
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…had been met. These cases led to higher hospital care cost of approximately $193 million. Medicare and Medicaid spent about $132 million on such hospital care while the rest was…
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…of President Nixon. Medicaid, Title X and state sources now provide a total of $2.37 billion of funding for family planning services (as of FY 2010). Despite such funding, the…
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…Finally, although health care reform opens new opportunities for homeless persons, there remain significant logistical hurdles to extending Medicaid to this population. Keywords: youth, children, transient population, soup kitchen, street…
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…government redistribution programs — for example, Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — dwarf local municipal programs. Nevertheless, he concludes, the “empirical analysis suggests…
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