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Monday, September 19, 2016

Audit says home health care companies overbilled Mass. Medicaid by $23m : bostonglobe





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Audit says home health care companies overbilled Mass. Medicaid by $23m

Audit says home health care companies overbilled Mass. Medicaid by $23m
Audit says home health care companies overbilled Mass. Medicaid by $23m
The state's Medicaid program was routinely billed for home health care services that were never provided or were not medically necessary.Providers submitted documents with missing dates and signatures.Sometimes basic information like a patient's medical history was nowhere to be found.


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How Planned Parenthood's health care "reinvention plan" failed

How Planned Parenthood's health care "reinvention plan" failed
How Planned Parenthood's health care
Planned Parenthood's attempt to reinvent themselves as "health care" providers instead of the largest chain of abortion clinics in the United States began years ago for solely economic reasons.Dubbed the "reinvention plan" the proposal to somehow morph from an abortion clinic into a heath care agency was originally proposed in the mid-1990's.Ironically, it was not well received by many within the Planned Parenthood organization because of all reasons, it barely mentioned abortion.


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Behavioral consortium unites to improve mental health care

Behavioral consortium unites to improve mental health care
Behavioral consortium unites to improve mental health care
Enrique Mata, PDN Health Foundation (Photo: Courtesy)On September 27th, the El Paso Behavioral Consortium will assemble at the Wyndham Hotel to recognize a growing list of collaborating partners and to hear updates on progress being made to improve mental and behavioral healthcare options for the greater El Paso area.Some have said that El Paso organizations do not collaborate well.In fact, a 2014 assessment of the El Paso behavioral health system showed "the biggest challenge confronting El Paso's behavioral health system was fragmentation and lack of program collaboration."


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Republicans look to lower health care costs

Republicans look to lower health care costs
Republicans look to lower health care costs
"If the market is collapsing in our face, we need a solution for the year 2017," U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander said of the proposed bill.(Photo: Submitted)WASHINGTON — Concerned by skyrocketing premiums and fewer coverage options, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander and other Senate Republicans are pushing to give more choices to Americans who buy health insurance through one of the marketplaces set up under the Affordable Care Act.Their legislation wouldn't permanently fix what's ailing the 2010 law, informally known as Obamacare, Alexander said.


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