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"These cases often uncover unscrupulous medical providers who develop schemes such as overbilling to defraud the state Medicaid program, which is jointly funded by the state and federal governments to provide health insurance coverage to the needy. Some charge for services that were never performed," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
States handle a range of health policy issues.
The federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee is calling for the development of a national program that would monitor patient safety problems in health care IT systems.
Medicaid officials outline the specific changes in how savings generated by Medicaid drug rebates will be divided between the federal governments and the states.
Wellpoint "specifically targeted women with breast cancer for aggressive investigation with the intent to cancel their policies," Reuters reports.
Studies and policy briefs this week come from the CDC, British Medical Journal, the SCAN Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, with a focus on the new health law's coverage estimates, costs and impact on the health care system.
Reuters is reporting -- citing federal investigators and regulators -- that the nation's largest insurer has sought to cancel the health insurance of some people diagnosed with this disease.
The Congressional Budget Office today released an estimate regarding the number of Americans who could face penalties for failing to have health insurance.
Politico reports that Democrats are following a call from President Barack Obama in daring Republicans to try to repeal the health care reform law.
A new Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll, the first one conducted since sweeping health reforms became law, shows mixed reviews and confusion are primary among the public's reaction so far.
Representatives of the African Union (AU) on Wednesday began meeting with members of the Obama administration in Washington, as part of the first Annual U.S.-African Union High Level Bilateral Meetings, United Press International reports (4/21).
Agence France-Presse reports that the U.N. has launched "a new website to track the estimated 9.9 billion dollars in aid pledged to Haiti by the international community in the wake of a devastating January 12 earthquake." The website is a joint project of the Haitian government and the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP). The new portal aims to ensure "transparency and accountability," according to a UNDP press release. "The system tracks the money from pledge to impact," the release said.
A selection of today's opinions and editorials
"Even as the world's deadline for the achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) approaches in 2015, countries are not making water and sanitation a priority, which in turn impacts other developmental goals like health and education," according to a WHO report released Wednesday, Press Trust International/Business Standard reports (4/22).
Cisco is using its HealthPresence telemedicine system in new programs in Southern California and the Southwest to "compete with other major tech companies, including Intel, IBM and General Electric, in the growing market for health-care products and services," The San Jose Mercury News/The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer reports.
Reuters reports on a new study that says "there is not enough evidence to sort out the effect of various radiation treatments for prostate cancer patients."
An ActionAid report (.pdf) released on Wednesday recommends that major aid donors increase their support of small-scale farms run by women in developing countries to maximize the chance of meeting the U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving hunger by 2015, Reuters reports.
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