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After the fourth incident, the DPH decided that conditions were serious enough to bring in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to determine whether “violations of conditions of participation” occurred. Such a finding would jeopardize the hospital’s eligibility to receive Medicare and Medicaid funds...
...Veterans Affairs System, for example, bargains for steep discounts in drug prices, as do large HMO’s, most of which also have lists of preferred drugs called formularies. Likewise, Medicaid cannot be charged more for drugs than pharmaceutical companies’ most favored customers...
...still endorsing the biggest new federal entitlement since 1965, a prescription-drug benefit for seniors. The official cost over 10 years is $400 billion, but given rocketing prices for drugs, it could well be far higher. At the same time, he has done nothing substantive to reform Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security to avert the looming burden of the baby boomers' retirement years...
...Research Triangle Park, N.C. Many of these costs are passed on to all Americans in the form of greater premiums and copayments for health-insurance plans. Plus, notes Finkelstein, the average taxpayer shells out $150 to $200 a year to finance obesity-related medical expenditures for Medicare and Medicaid recipients...
...priority. And some Vermonters say even if he does tackle health care, his record on that issue has plenty of shortcomings. Critic Michael Abajian, an anesthesiologist at Central Vermont Medical Center, says Dean paid to cover uninsured Vermonters mainly by underreimbursing doctors for care given to Medicaid patients. "It's so hypocritical to say he wants to provide universal coverage and turn around and not even pay the people who would provide the health care," says Abajian...