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Hospital talks partly driven by health overhaul
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — The growing ranks of patients insured by Medicare and Medicaid are among the factors driving talks between two independent northern Indiana hospitals to operate jointly. Elkhart General Hospital and South Bend Memorial Hospital...Tags: Medicare, Health, Social Issues, Medical Services, Human Interest
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Feds: Proposed Ind. Medicaid expansion premature
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal officials on Friday denied Indiana's request to use a state public health savings account to help cover the half-million people who will become eligible for Medicaid in 2014, saying the request was premature and leaving...Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Mitch Daniels, Government Health Care, Medicaid
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Fla. health official: Child Medicaid program is OK
MIAMI (AP) — One of the state's top Medicaid official told a judge that Florida's health insurance program for poor children has no major problems, children are able to access care and any contrary statements other health officials have made to...Tags: Justice System, Family, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), West Palm Beach, Health and Medical Professionals
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Michigan shrinks safety net for poor as poverty rises
LANSING, Mich.. (AP) — Michele Shoemaker spent Wednesday packing, faced with a weekend deadline to leave the simple two-bedroom rental in Jackson where she and her 15-year-old son have lived for five years. About to be cut off from welfare and...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Justice System, Social Issues, Poverty, Social Security
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Public health assessment to help local leaders set goals
SOUTH BEND — A new survey shows St. Joseph County's public health system is about average compared to others in Indiana, but local leaders say it could be better. The findings are the first step in improving the way local organizations such as...Tags: Health, St. Joseph County (Indiana), Social Issues, Diseases and Illnesses, Local Government
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Judge temporarily blocks Ind. Medicaid Rx fee cut
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked Indiana from cutting its Medicaid prescription dispensing fees to $3 from $4.90. US District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the Indiana...Tags: Health, Justice System, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Healthy Indiana Plan makes room for 8K kidless adults
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana is opening the rolls of its Healthy Indiana Plan medical savings account to 8,000 childless adults on Aug. 1. The Family and Social Services Administration said last week the new openings have been created by people...Tags: Social Issues, Indiana
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Indiana law on free birth control never implemented
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 2005 Indiana law that would have provided free birth control to low-income women was never implemented because the state's social services agency failed to complete the process to apply for a Medicaid expansion program that...Tags: Health Treatments, Birth Control, Health, Family Planning, Luke Kenley
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proposed Memorial-Elkhart General partnership one step closer
Two of the area's largest hospitals are one step closer to joining together under one health system.
On Tuesday morning the board of directors at Elkhart General Hospital voted to affiliate with South Bend's Memorial Hospital.
Right now, both are...Tags: Health, Human Interest, Hospitals and Clinics, Parent Organizations
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Planned Parenthood runs out of money for Medicaid customers
Planned Parenthood has exhausted more than $100,000 dollars in donations. Now the organization is forced to do something it wanted to avoid: cut medicaid patients off.
Outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Mishawaka, the sign on the marquee says their...Tags: Health, Family Planning, Justice System, Social Issues, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Indiana: Medicaid patients' choice not unlimited
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Medicaid patients don't have unlimited rights to choose medical providers, the state of Indiana said Friday in defending its decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood because it offers abortions.
Planned Parenthood and...Tags: Health, Family Planning, Justice System, Medical Services, Social Issues
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Indiana move to cut Planned Parenthood funds blocked
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Indiana expects to start offering services to Medicaid patients again Saturday after a federal judge ruled the state is not allowed to cut off the organization's public funding for general health services...Tags: Government, Social Issues, Indiana Legislature, Court Preliminary, Human Interest
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