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SPRINGFIELD – Illinois hospitals didn't want to get less for treating Medicaid patients, so they accepted a longer wait for the same pay. But that wait is getting longer.
Continue reading …Illinois is racing to pay down $1.8 billion in Medicaid bills by the end of June.
Continue reading …By Benjamin Yount Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Illinois is on track to pay nearly $2 billion in Medicaid bills by the end of June.
Continue reading …SPRINGFIELD – Illinois is using some of its rainy day money to close to 2-billion dollars in Medicaid payments by the end of the month. Lawmakers have okayed a plan to turn 365-million in rainy day cash into enough money to pay 1-point-8 billion dollars in Medicaid bills
Continue reading …Lawmaker says DHS saving money by denying eligibility to a program for seniors
May 6, 2011 No Comment
State Representative Ron Peters (R-Tulsa) says the Oklahoma Department of Human Services is trying to save money in its own budget by shifting seniors out of a program which allows them to get home care rather than live in a nursing home.
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By Tim Sampson Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Senate has taken up the issue of whether individuals receiving funds from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program should be subjected to drug testing. The Senate Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee heard testimony Tuesday from the sponsors of three separate bills [...]
Continue reading …Attorney General Koster announces settlement with Ameritox –company to pay Missouri $285,000 to settle kickback allegations– Jefferson City, Mo.— Attorney General Chris Koster said today that on November 17 the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units joined the federal government to reach an agreement in principle with the drug testing business, Ameritox, Ltd. The [...]
Continue reading …UPDATE – Medicaid Review Concludes: The chairman of the Missouri House committee taking an in-depth look at the state budget is satisfied with answers his committee elicited from three state departments on their participation in the Medicaid program. The Interim Committee on Budget Transparency spent about seven hours over two days looking into the workings [...]
Continue reading …Perryville bookkeeper sentenced for abuse of Medicaid recipient, forgery
October 22, 2010 No CommentJefferson City, Mo.-Attorney General Chris Koster said today that Perry County Circuit Court Judge William L. Syler has ordered Connie Jean Beckerman of Perryville to be placed on probation for five years for misappropriating funds from residents at the Perry Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility in Perryville. In addition to normal probation conditions, Judge Syler [...]
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