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...first lady's wishes." Counsel Starr was already investigating Watkins' statements concerning the travel office in his inquiry into the suicide of former deputy White House counsel Vince Foster. Janet Reno wrote the court that "It would be appropriate to expand his jurisdiction to include Watkins' statement to GAO on that same subject," she said. Yesterday, Mrs. Clinton told congressional investigators in a written response that she doesn't remember discussing the travel office firings with Watkins and that she played no part in the dismissals. The travel office staff was fired soon after the Clinton's arrived...
...program's success--but one that other states will be hard put to duplicate with fewer federal dollars. Although ahcccs' administrative costs are higher than those in states that operate under a traditional Medicaid system, Arizona is still saving money. According to a report by the General Accounting Office (gao), Arizona is saving 7% a year on acute care and 16% on long-term care, compared with a similar program in neighboring New Mexico, a state with comparable demographics...
...care companies could allow 5% of their patients to use nongeneric drugs if absolutely necessary. Keeping the providers from defecting may prove more difficult. Many doctors feel that the medical budget for poor Tennesseeans was balanced on their backs. Even now, money for TennCare is tight. According to a gao report comparing TennCare's reimbursement rates with the old Medicaid levels, doctors now get slightly higher fees for visits and consultations, but for some forms of surgery and radiology they receive 20% to 50% less than they did before...
...managed-care companies renewed their contracts for 1996, but their support for TennCare is tenuous at best. The gao report suggests that if their concerns are not addressed, they "could withdraw in large numbers." Robert Corker, the Tennessee commissioner of finance, insists that the state is still working on making TennCare more responsive to providers. But if federal money is cut next year, the state may be faced with the stark choice of slashing rates still further or dropping coverage for thousands of residents...
...congressional study of Medicare abuse says fraudulent billing practices by doctors will cost the cash-strapped program $4 billion over the next five years. The General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, blames much of the problem on obsolete computer technology used in auditing the Medicare claims submitted by doctors. GAO investigators testified before the Senate today that a minority of doctors (8 percent) are responsible for most of the abuse. Still, their creative use of the Medicare billing system has already cost more than $1.24 billion in the last two years. The new evidence of damage done by grifting doctors...