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Proof or consequences. Law to curb illegal immigrants' Medicaid coverage may sting U.S. citizens seeking medical treatment without documentation.
Full Abstract
By requiring providers to ask Medicaid patients to prove citizenship, the government is creating a quandary:
providers can comply and potentially lose millions in reimbursements or forfeit matching funds if they don't. Ironically, the mandate could cause millions of eligible patients to lose health coverage because they can't supply the documents, says Ron Pollack, left.
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Author/s: Lubell, Jennifer (J);
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Modern healthcare (Mod Healthc), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: -2006 Jul 3-10; vol 36 (issue 27) : pp 6-7, 16, 1
Dates: Created 2006/08/10; Completed 2006/09/05;
PMID: 16898540, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)
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