Word: medicaid
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...Medicare patients. The latest prohibits quick in-and-out mastectomies. Others forbid HMOs to limit what doctors can tell Medicare patients and restrict their ability to pay bonuses to doctors as a reward for keeping costs down. This regulatory club has power, since HMOs rate signing up Medicare and Medicaid patients as their best prospect for expansion...
Government regulators, forced to pay through Medicaid for the treatment of myriad cases of emphysema and lung cancer, have launched their own assault against tobacco companies. Yet they have been unable to win in a court of law, despite revelations of the addictive properties of nicotine. Tobacco companies have never paid a cent for health problems incurred by smoking. Fortunately, now that the Liggett agreement will unearth older documents, the states may have more fire-power. But what will be the end to this war? Will states be happy with the destruction of Philip Morris, which has 48 percent...
...contain themselves. "This is the beginning of the end for this conspiracy of lies and deceptions that have been perpetuated on the American public by the tobacco companies," said Arizona's Grant Woods, who brought one of the first state suits that aim to recoup billions of dollars in Medicaid money spent on illnesses related to smoking. Attorney general Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III of Minnesota emphasized the battles ahead: "This is like busting a street drug dealer to get the Colombia cartel. We are very serious about going ahead and making sure the entire industry is transformed...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: While President Clinton is taking up the right cause in announcing new legislative proposals to prevent crooked doctors from abusing the Medicare and Medicaid programs, he could have accomplished much of what he aims to do if he had carried out laws passed in 1996 and 1987 for the same purpose. A new report from his own Department of Health and Human Services points out that the Administration has yet to establish a national data base called for under a 1996 law that would track doctors convicted for crimes, some of whom have lost their licenses...