Stories about Medicaid
Medicaid is the United States health program for certain people and families with low incomes and resources.
New Medicaid rules mean some centers must reduce services to keep funding
By Lindsay Tice, Sun Journal on Oct. 20, 2011, at 10:56 a.m.
AUBURN, Maine — St. Francis Recovery Center, a rehab and halfway house for men recovering from addiction, will cut its number of beds in half — from 32 to 16 — by the end of the month in an effort to keep its funding. Other mental health facilities may quickly ...
Some see trade deals as threatening states’ powers
By DAVE GRAM, Associated Press on Aug. 21, 2011, at 4:09 p.m.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — A free-trade agreement between the United States and other countries around the Pacific Ocean might not seem like an obvious topic of discussion inside Vermont’s Statehouse. But in Montpelier and other state capitals, there’s growing concern that such agreements could undermine states’ authority in a host of ...
Secret video hints at Medicaid fraud potential; critics say it’s ‘gotcha’ without the ‘gotcha’
AUGUSTA, Maine — Two conservative Maine policy groups released video footage Thursday that purportedly showed a state employee encouraging an individual seeking Medicaid to hide his income. The exchange is proof, the groups claim, that the state’s welfare system is susceptible to abuse. Others, including Maine Gov. Paul LePage, quickly ...
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LePage budget fix would cut welfare benefits, state jobs
AUGUSTA, Maine — The LePage administration’s latest budget proposals to eliminate MaineCare coverage for 28,000 people, cut welfare benefits for some families and slash hundreds of state government jobs is expected to draw sizable crowds to the State House on Wednesday. Unveiled last week, the package of budget alterations intended ...
Lawmakers want to change welfare, but are the changes constitutional?
AUGUSTA, Maine — Fixing welfare is easy enough to talk about on the campaign trail. But when it comes to actually revamping the social service programs created to help those in need, reform efforts often run up against federal restrictions, constitutional prohibitions and, in some cases, the fact that reality ...
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Governors cut taxes, medical aid to the poor
By Noam N. Levey, Tribune Washington Bureau on April 13, 2011, at 5:50 p.m.
AUGUSTA, Maine — In their drive to cut medical assistance to the poor while pushing tax breaks benefiting the affluent, congressional Republicans are following the lead of a group of governors who have championed this approach to balance state budgets. The strategy — reprising the supply-side economics of the Ronald ...
Parties split as House panel debates GOP budget
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Alan Fram, The Associated Press on April 06, 2011, at 8:58 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Partisan divisions hardened Wednesday as Republicans began pushing a $3.5 trillion federal budget for 2012 through a House committee, with backers calling it a sobering correction for the nation’s spending binge and critics labeling it an assault on health programs for retirees and the poor. The sweeping fiscal ...
Maine discovers millions in Medicaid overpayments
BDN staff and wire reports on March 10, 2011, at 8:35 p.m.
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew says her department has discovered tens of millions of dollars in larger-than-budgeted payments to Maine hospitals and social service programs and that corrective steps are being taken. Mayhew says a $66 million Medicaid overpayment to Maine hospitals resulted from ...
4 Maine hospitals to participate in Medicare experiment
The Associated Press on March 02, 2011, at 11:43 a.m.
PORTLAND, Maine — Four rural Maine hospitals are going to be participating in an experiment that will increase the amount Medicare reimburses the hospitals for care they provide. Maine U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud says hospitals in Waterville, Ellsworth, Farmington and Damariscotta will participate in the program run by the Centers ...
Gov. LePage urges federal flexibility to enable states to solve financial problems
The Associated Press on Feb. 27, 2011, at 2:25 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Their states on the brink of financial catastrophe, governors pleaded Saturday for the divided federal government to avoid doing anything that would hamper the tenuous economic recovery back home. Their message to Washington: Prevent a government shutdown, abstain from spending cuts that dramatically will affect states and end ...
LePage heads to DC, Cutler phones it in
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage will gather with most of his fellow governors in Washington, D.C., this weekend to talk about job creation, education reform, fiscal management and a host of other top issues facing chief executives nationwide. But LePage is also hoping to raise concerns — and perhaps ...
Lewiston man, sister sentenced for Medicaid fraud
By Mark LaFlamme, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine on Dec. 18, 2010, at 7:00 a.m.
PORTLAND, Maine – A Lewiston man was sentenced to prison Friday for defrauding the government out of health care and other benefits. At a court hearing Friday, Ahmed Yusuf Guled, 75, was ordered to serve four months in prison and to pay restitution of $119,440 and forfeit property totaling $109,733. ...
Presidential commission urges Medicare, other health care cuts to close deficit
The Associated Press on Dec. 02, 2010, at 6:55 a.m.
WASHINGTON — The health care cuts proposed by President Barack Obama’s deficit commission would reach virtually every corner of society, making cost curbs in the new overhaul law look tame by comparison. Workers with solid coverage on the job, seniors, drug companies, trial lawyers, hospitals, doctors, state governments and federal ...
Following Nutting’s own formula, pharmacy still overcharged for Medicaid supplies
AUGUSTA, Maine — In 2001, True’s Pharmacy in Oakland, owned by presumptive Speaker of the House Robert Nutting, bought medical gloves for $4.39 per package. By the time True’s sold them to a Medicaid provider, the price had gone up to $11.11. That markup — 153 percent — was much ...
Feds talk up health act for seniors
ORONO, Maine — Advocates of the recent national health care overhaul say older Americans have a lot to gain from its provisions. On Wednesday, federal officials were at the Dirigo Pines retirement community to talk it up. U.S. Deputy Assistant on Aging Cindy Padilla and Dr. Bill Kassler, chief medical ...
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Harvard student asked to leave bar for ‘bad behavior,’ not drunkenness
LePage blasts teachers union for endorsing same-sex marriage question
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