La. Health department cuts Medicaid providers, By Melinda Deslatte (AP), August 3, 2009, Baton Rouge Advocate: “Louisiana will start paying less money Tuesday to many private health care providers for taking care of Medicaid patients, a move the state health department estimates will save $86 million this year. Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine said he also is weighing whether to require adults in the Medicaid program to pay a ‘very small co-pay’ if they use emergency rooms for non-emergency care…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty