Pharmacy groups want to challange state Medicaid cuts
Pharmacy groups petition the Supreme Court to allow them to challenge state decisions that cut Medicaid.
Healthcare law glitch concerns people with disabilities
Efforts to fix a glitch in the healthcare reform law could backfire on thousands of people with disabilities, The Hill has learned.
Advocates of Medicaid still worried
Medicaid advocates remain worried that the state-federal program for low-income Americans remains on the chopping block as debt ceiling negotiations enter the final stretch, reports The Hill.
UPMC wants seamless divorce
UPMC hopes that the transition away from insurer Highmark Inc. will be smooth and easy.
Federal budget negotiations include health care cuts
Administration officials and Republican negotiators say the money can be taken from health care providers like hospitals and nursing homes without directly imposing new costs on needy beneficiaries or radically restructuring either program, reports The New York Times.
PA hospitals happy with the budget
The proposed budget is better for PA hospitals than what they had expected with Gov. Tom Corbett’s original plan.
Study shows publicly insured children are at a disadvantage in receiving medical care
Penn study showed that children who were publicly insured were rejected or delayed care disproportionately more often than children who were privately covered.
Planned Parenthood closing Doylestown clinic
Due to financial issues, Planned Parenthood will close their Doylestown clinic on June 28.
Health-care transition a slow process across the states
As many legislatures around the country have finished their work for the year, fewer than one-fourth of states have taken concrete steps to create health insurance marketplaces, a central feature of the federal law to overhaul the U.S. health-care system, reports The Washington Post.
Controversy over pricey care
Costly healthcare paid by dissipating federal funds is a topic of controversy as issues of the rocky economy and patient health are discussed.