Tag Archives: Medicaid

DCH board raises nursing home rates, ponders cut for dialysis services

State Board of Community Health approves an increase in Medicaid payment rates for nursing homes . . .

Tags: Clay Cox , DCH board , dialysis , Jerry Dubberly , Medicaid , Medicaid reimbursements , Medicare , nursing homes , provider-preventable conditions

Senate approves physician, dentist licensing bill

Senate passes bill that would allow doctors and dentists to be licensed by the state even if they decline to participate in the federal healthcare reform act . . .

Tags: Greg Goggans , Healthcare reform , Medicaid , Medicare , professional licenses

Consultants recommend expansion of Medicaid managed care

Consultant’s study recommends that the Department of Community Health stay with the managed-care approach to Medicaid and expand it to include more of the program’s participants . . .

Tags: care management organizations , David Cook , DCH , Medicaid , Navigant

DCH awaits report on Medicaid privatization

DCH will be receiving a consultant’s study this week that could recommend major changes in how Georgia runs its Medicaid program . . .

Tags: Amerigroup , care management organizations , Centene , Cynthia Zeldin , David Cook , GHA , Joe Parker , Medicaid , Pat Willis , WellCare

Local school systems face higher health insurance bills

As part of its efforts to eliminate a deficit in the State Health Benefits Plan, DCH will require increased premiums for health insurance coverage of non-teaching public school employees . . .

Tags: assisted living , Board of Community Health , co-payments , David Cook , DCH , Medicaid , PeachCare , provider reimbursement rates , State Health Benefits Plan

Merck will pay $15 million to settle Medicaid claims

Attorney General Sam Olens announces a settlement with Merck over misrepresentations to the Medicaid program involving the drug Vioxx . . .

Tags: Medicaid , Merck , Sam Olens , settlement , Vioxx

Lawmakers want to require Medicaid, welfare drug tests

Legislators from the House and Senate have prefiled bills that would require Medicaid and TANF applicants to pay for and pass a drug test to be eligible for benefits . . .

Tags: drug tests , Jason Spencer , John Albers , Medicaid , TANF

Isakson: Limit Social Security, means-test Medicare

Sen. Johnny Isakson calls for reducing the benefits paid to Medicare and Social Security recipients, along with reducing the number of people eligible for those benefits . . .

Tags: Johnny Isakson , means-testing , Medicaid , Medicare , raising age of eligibility , Social Security

Georgia recovers Medicaid funds in Pfizer settlement

As part of a settlement with Pfizer over charges of illegal off-label drug marketing, Georgia will be paid back nearly $200,000 for its Medicaid program, the attorney general’s office said . . .

Tags: Detrol , Medicaid , off-lablel drug marketing , Pfizer , Sam Olens

DCH pays $6.4 million for use of electronic health records

Healthcare providers are getting financial incentives to convert to electronic health records for Medicaid patients . . .

Tags: David Cook , DCH , electronic health records , Medicaid