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HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced up to $2 million in individual assistance for victims of Hurricane Ike from affected counties in Texas, through a new Emergency Prescription Assistance Program (EPAP) administrated by the Centers for...

In this article: HHS, Hurricane Ike, Texas, Mike Leavitt, Medicaid, Medicare, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

...a total of $363,801 in payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ARLINGTON, Texas, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas Health hospitals across the Metroplex will receive financial awards from the Centers for...

In this article: Texas, Heart failure, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Surgery, Knee replacement, and Hip replacement

...Health Enterprises to Administer Medicare in Four States DALLAS, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC to administer the claims process for both Part A and...

In this article: Medicare, Beneficiary, Dallas, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Denison, Texas, San Antonio, Texas, and Maryland

...health care items and services. The action gives HHS' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) greater flexibility in meeting emergency health needs for its Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP beneficiaries. Secretary Leavitt acted under his...

In this article: Beneficiary, Medicare, HHS, State Children's Health Insurance Program, Texas, Medicaid, Mike Leavitt, Hurricane Ike, and Public Health Service Act

...Timeline, Scope Of Texas Medicaid Overhaul Plan Article Date: 26 Aug 2008 - 6:00 PDT In an Aug. 7 letter to Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Albert Hawkins, CMS official Dianne Heffron questioned whether the state's...

In this article: Medicaid, Dallas Morning News, Texas, Kaiser Family Foundation, All rights reserved, Schip, and Advisory Board Company

...of Management and Budget (OMB) data from the Bush Administration's FY 2009 Budget and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), finds the following: Rank State Total Reduction (Millions) Per Patient Day #1 California $64.9...

In this article: Medicare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Florida, Revenue, and Medicaid

...measure." Mark McClellan, former CMS administrator under former President George W. Bush, said that "there is some reason for optimism in this round of health care reform" because it is focusing on improving care while lowering costs. He noted...

In this article: Olympia Snowe, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, Medicare, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Peter Orszag, Kaiser Family Foundation, George W. Bush, and Senate Finance Committee

...increases, with Utah, Nevada, Missouri, Alabama and Texas showing the steepest climbs. The CMS data has left Utah officials scratching their heads. According to CMS, Utah saw a 78 percent increase in the number of seriously mentally ill...

In this article: Utah, Mentally ill, Bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's, Freedom of Information Act, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

...to better dialysis access, are good reasons to pursue opening the pending facilities." "We commend CMS and the many Texas state officials who deserve credit for recognizing the certification backlog problem - with delays of up to 18 months...

In this article: Texas, Washington, D.C., Kay Bailey Hutchison, Beneficiary, National Kidney Foundation, Pete Olson, Chet Edwards, and Louie Gohmert