Medicaid - Economics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments - United States, 2007.

4 Nov 2009 The prevalence of tobacco use among adults in the United States has been reduced by half since the 1960s. Despite this progress, low-income populations, such as Medicaid enrollees, continue to smoke at substantially higher rates than the general ... Read more...

The impact of TennCare on hospital efficiency.

30 Aug 2009 This study measures the effect of TennCare, a Medicaid managed care reform initiated in 1994, on the efficiency of hospitals in Tennessee. We apply a multiple-output stochastic frontier approach to a panel dataset that represents all short-term ... Read more...

Medicare program; prospective payment system and consolidated billing for skilled nursing facilities for FY 2010; minimum data set, version 3.0 for skilled nursing facilities and Medicaid nursing facilities. Final rule.

9 Aug 2009 This final rule updates the payment rates used under the prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), for fiscal year (FY) 2010. In addition, it recalibrates the case-mix indexes so that they more accurately reflect parity ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Medicaid - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments - United States, 2007. 4 Nov 2009
• How health care reform can benefit children and adolescents. 5 Oct 2009
• A critique of the changes in Hawai'i's Medicaid system. 29 Sep 2009
• Does vascular surgery cost too much? 24 Sep 2009
• Baucus's bill and the long road to reform. 21 Sep 2009
• IPPS update eliminates proposed reimbursement cuts. 13 Sep 2009
• The impact of TennCare on hospital efficiency. 30 Aug 2009
• Medicare program; prospective payment system and consolidated billing for skilled nursing facilities for FY 2010; minimum data set, version 3.0 for skilled nursing facilities and Medicaid nursing facilities. Final rule. 9 Aug 2009
• AMCP Guide to Pharmaceutical Payment Methods, 2009 Update (Version 2.0). 30 Jul 2009
• What is the Recovery Act's dedicated Medicaid funding ultimately stimulating? 30 Jul 2009
• Pay for performance: quality- and value-based reimbursement. 30 Jul 2009
• Financial impact of reducing door-to-balloon time in ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a single hospital experience. 24 Jul 2009
• [The health system in the USA: no unlimited possibilities] 21 Jul 2009
• Agreement between pharmacists for problem identification: an initial quality measurement of cognitive services. 5 Jul 2009
• States' fights. 4 Jul 2009
• We've looked at care from both sides now: the effects of alternative evaluation strategies on study conclusions. 29 Jun 2009
• Medicaid's medical transportation assurance: origins, evolution, current trends, and implications for health reform. 29 Jun 2009
• Making the case for a "discharge department" or visions of "operation restore trust"? 29 Jun 2009
• Health disparities and the primary care medical home: could it be that simple? 29 Jun 2009
• Second opinions improve ADHD prescribing in a medicaid-insured community population. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Medicaid'

Definition: Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XIX, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, administered by the states, that provides health care benefits to indigent and medically indigent persons.

Descriptor UI: D008484

Alternative terms: Medicaid; Medical Assistance, Title 19; Dental Medicaid Program; Medicaid Program, Dental; Medicaid Programs, Dental; Dental Medicaid Programs; Program, Dental Medicaid; Programs, Dental Medicaid;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.219.521.346.506.564.655;

Online Note: use MEDICAID to search MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, TITLE 19 1971-90; use MEDICAL ASSISTANCE to search DENTAL MEDICAID PROGRAM 1969-73

History Note: 91; was MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, TITLE 19 1971-90; MEDICAID was see MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, TITLE 19 1975-90, was see under MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 1969-70; DENTAL MEDICAID PROGRAM was see under MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, TITLE 19 1979-85, was DENTICAID see under MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, TITLE 19 1974-78, was DENTICAID see under MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 1969-73

Technical Notes: specify geog; Public Law 89-97