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Government Overpaid for Medicaid Enrollees Who Also Had Private Coverage
The federal government could save millions of dollars each year if it truly established Medicaid as the "payer of last resort," a new audit has found.
The federal government could save millions of dollars each year if it truly established Medicaid as the “payer of last resort,” a new audit has found.
Nearly 1 in 7 people enrolled in Medicaid was also insured by a private company—a total of 7.5 million people—which should mean a large amount of government savings.
But a lack of data and coordination failures means that the government has sometimes paid medical bills that should have been covered by private companies, according to a report released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office.
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Source: The Hill
Dr Kathy Zackowski Discusses the Importance of Rehabilitation Research and Trials in MS
April 26th 2024Kathy Zackowski, PhD, National MS Society, expresses the inherent value of quality rehabilitation trials for broadening clinical understandings of multiple sclerosis (MS) and bettering patient outcomes.
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Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Empowering Community Health Through Wellness and Faith
April 23rd 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. In the third episode, Camille Clarke-Smith, EdD, MS, CHES, CPT, discusses approaching community health holistically through spiritual and community engagement.
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Kaiser Permanente was hit by a data breach in mid-April, impacting 13.4 million health plan members; GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) sued Pfizer and BioNTech for allegedly infringing on its messenger RNA technology patents in the companies’ COVID-19 vaccines; the CDC announced the first-known HIV cases transmitted via cosmetic injections.
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