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<title>Healthcare Industry Today: Medicaid - New Jersey News</title>
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<title>The National Market Is Not the Savior of State Regulated Private Health Insurance</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185425757</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  an increase in government insured of 2.7M. Medicaid increased by 1.3M, Medicare by 1M and  ...  Cross premiums were not much different in New Jersey (a guaranteed issue, community rated state) than  ...
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<title>Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infections to be Focus of AVA Meeting</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185421985</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  month, the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will cease reimbursing hospitals for  ...  states - including New York, Illinois, Florida, New Jersey, and Ohio - have passed laws requiring  ...
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<title>More dough but less bread</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185323049</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 22:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  -- Median household income and earnings in New Jersey rose slightly last year after accounting for  ...  In reality, however, government programs such as Medicaid have simply picked up the slack as  ...
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<title>Rooney Named CEO Of Centene Unit</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185305502</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 20:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  related services to individuals receiving benefits under Medicaid, including the State Children&apos;s Health Insurance Program,  ...  operates health plans in Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. Centene  ...
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<title>Centene names Rooney president of Indiana subsidiary</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185255591</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 15:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Centene Corp. (NYSE: CNC) provides managed care programs and related services to individuals under Medicaid. It also operates health plans in Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin. ...
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<title>Centene Corporation Names Patrick J. Rooney as President and CEO of Indiana Subsidiary</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185247531</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 14:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  addition, he played a critical role in Medicaid contract renewals and developed and analyzed product  ...  operates health plans in Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. In  ...
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<title>N.J. income rose slightly in 2007; purchasing power fell</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185182021</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 05:53 GMT</pubDate>
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... Median household income and earnings in New Jersey rose slightly last year after accounting for  ...  In reality, however, government programs such as Medicaid have simply picked up the slack as  ...
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<title>Cable TV host sentenced to probation, house arrest in drug case</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184986957</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 05:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in May to buying the drugs from New Jersey chiropractor Michael Manno and selling them to  ...  patients. The chiropractor obtained the drugs from Medicaid patients who were prescribed the drugs from  ...
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<title>Hospital Woes Are Worse In N.Y. Than Rest of U.S.</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184969955</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 02:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  He said one factor was the state&apos;s Medicaid program, which offers generous eligibility standards for  ...  of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey, said that in New York part of  ...
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<title>Hospital investors await answers</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184815913</link>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 05:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Co. LLP, explained it: Payments from Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurers are among the funds  ...  of 14 hospitals in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New Jersey within just a few years. It also  ...
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<title>Health Care: N.J. Hospital Association says reform bills a start, more needed</title>
<link>http://health.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184815905</link>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 05:17 GMT</pubDate>
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... Four bills aimed at reforming the New Jersey hospital industry were signed into law earlier  ...  charity-care patients, poor reimbursement to providers for Medicaid services, and the proliferation of ambulatory care  ...
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