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Total Number of Articles: 677/29/2003 - Nursing Home Tax Gets Ringing Endorsement Boston Herald, MA by Jennifer Heldt Powell
Gov. Mitt Romney last week quietly approved a nursing home bed tax, after his office took a flood of phone calls saying it was needed to give the industry more money.
The governor got 600 phone calls about the issue, a spokeswoman said. The tax will generate $145 million from nursing home....MORE
7/28/2003 - Mystery Illness Plagues Nursing Home News 12 Westchester, NY
MAMARONECK - Health officials continue to investigate whether a mystery illness is to blame for four deaths at the Sara Neuman nursing home in Mamaroneck. As many as 37 of the home's 300 patients may have been infected with the unknown virus since the outbreak earlier this month. The home's di....MORE
7/23/2003 - NCSL report finds states raised $10.6 billion in taxes, fees to balance budgets this year AP - By ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP, July 23) - States overall raised $10.6 billion in new taxes and fees this year to keep government programs running, relying on cuts, borrowing and other tactics to cover tens of billions more in gaps between income and spending, according to a new report released Wednesday. MORE
7/23/2003 - Crain's New York Business Medicaid panel by Mary Sisson
State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno recently named 40 people to an advisory panel for the Senate's task force on Medicaid reform, which was created last month.
The panel's 14-member executive committee includes Michael Dowling, president and chief executive of North Shore-Long Island....MORE
7/21/2003 - Medicare would pay for adult day care under pilot program Associated Press By NANCY ZUCKERBROD, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP, July 21) - Patricia Smith of Louisville, Ky., has relied on Medicare to pay for home nursing care in the past, but she now gets additional attention at an adult day-care center -- an option that soon might be more widely available to older Americans.
State Medicaid programs ....MORE
7/3/2003 - Ruling Favors City Over State in $23 Million Medicaid Feud New York Law Journal - By Tom Perrotta, New York Law Journal
The State Department of Health acted irrationally when it decided to take back $23 million paid to New York City to cover Medicaid services for the mentally disabled, a state Supreme Court justice has ruled.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Figueroa faulted the health department ....MORE
7/2/2003 - Study Says Feeding Tubes May Be Overused Associated Press -By Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO -- One-third of U.S. nursing home patients in the final stages of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia are given feeding tubes, despite evidence that the practice serves no benefit and may even cause harm, a study found.
People with advanced dementia are generally incapacitated, ....MORE
6/27/2003 - Medicaid Mandates Bust Budgets Albany Times Union
New York, California are leading victims of revenue decline as economy dives By DAN FREEDMAN, Washington bureau
WASHINGTON -- Soaring Medicaid costs, declining tax revenues and tough economic times forced governors to cut spending for fiscal 2004 -- the first overall decline in state expen....MORE
6/22/2003 - Nursing Home's Demise Closes a Chapter on History Deemed Too Costly, Frederick Facility Evokes Simpler Era
washingtonpost.com / By David Snyder Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 22, 2003; Page C05
The late-morning routine at the Maryland Odd Fellows Home went on as usual last week, though the grand old manse in Frederick is in the final stretch of nearly 80 years of service. Lunch was ....MORE
6/20/2003 - Senate Approves Drug Imports From Canada
Associated Press - WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate voted Friday to allow U.S. pharmacists to buy prescription drugs in Canada, where the same medicines sell for less, and resell them here in another attempt to drive down the rising cost of drugs. But a crucial detail is likely to prevent it from ev....MORE