Letter To Editor From Mississippi Doctor Concerning HealthCare ...
Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer. ... Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture - a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. ...

Jurisdynamics: Staying Afloat: Physicians in Katrina's Wake
As a primary care provider (pediatrician) in Bay St Louis, Mississippi. I've had a very personal interest in this issue. As you correctly pointed out in the paper you presented at DePaul University, federal authorities have done almost nothing for individual providers. ... One of the founding principles of Medicaid was to avoid creating a two-tier system of medical care, with the poor treated in public hospitals and clinics, and the rich treated in private facilities. ...

North Carolina Board of Pharmacy : Medicare and Medicaid Information
If the hospitals' residents want to enroll in Medicare, you will need to obtain NPIs before applying (enrolling) as a Medicare provider. Other health plans may require you to obtain NPIs as a condition of enrollment. If you prescribe medication, ..... Officials in Connecticut, Mississippi, Missouri and Iowa report that older consumers are receiving calls informing them that they can be enrolled in a program that meets their prescription drug needs for only $389. ...

Mississippi Division of Medicaid: Hospitals in this state can ...
Hospitals in Mississippi are reimbursed very well for treating Medicaid patients. On average, Medicaid reimburses hospitals 123% of their costs of treating Medicaid patients. None of the three states mentioned above (Colorado, ...

MHA Federalist: Senate Health Reform Bill Released
Hospital Payment Updates: Reid's bill would reduce hospital Medicare and Medicaid payments by approximately $106 billion. Specifically, it would reduce market basket updates for inpatient and outpatient hospitals, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation .... Welcome to MHA Federalist, a Mississippi Hospital Association blog covering news and resources to make sure your hospital is ready for the opportunities and challenges of health care reform. ...

Medicaid loses out and the disabled take the hit. - Free Online ...
... them use Medicaid to chip away at the ranks of an estimated forty-six million ... He gained a national spotlight in August 2005 after Mississippi was hit by ... "This policy is going to force many Medicaid recipients into hospitals ... Medicaid Woes Returning: After lying dormant for several years, Medicaid is ...

IRP Poverty Dispatch >> 2009 >> November
Planned Medicaid cuts hit dental, home care, By Kay Lazar, November 14, 2009, ... Job woes exacting a toll on family life, By Michael Luo, November 11, 2009, ... Both Alabama and Mississippi are among several Southeastern states whose .... slice $34 million from its budget by paying hospitals less to treat Medicaid ...

Mississippi Corrects 2003 Accounting Error, Hospitals, Medicaid ...
Dec 1, 2008 ... But major woes still loom in budget ... controversial proposal to make up a $90 million Medicaid funding shortfall by increasing hospital ... "As long as Medicaid allows states like Mississippi to raid the pocketbooks of ...

STATE RATE SETTING: A STATUS REPORT
caid expenditures coupled with general fiscal woes-remain, but power- ..... the issue" was responsible for state hospitals losing $24 million in the ..... Mississippi Medicaid Commission. Simmons, a former hospital adminis- ...