Mental Health News

PsychCentral.com
Orthopedic Surgery Outcomes Influenced by Mental Health
PsychCentral.com
By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor New research suggests prior mental health conditions can affect the recovery from total joint replacement surgery. Two new studies, presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic ...

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Politico
Area groups help seniors navigate Medicare changes with health care reform
Green Bay Press Gazette
1:28 pm Doug Hill of KnowYourCare gives a presentation during a town hall meeting on Social Security and Medicare benefits Wednesday at the Brown County Central Library, 515 Pine St., Green Bay. / H. Marc Larson/Press-Gazette Area seniors are learning ...
Michael Muoio column: Do we really have a choice in health care?Appleton Post Crescent
Health reform law saves $2.1 billion for 3.6 million Americans with MedicareCrossville Chronicle
Medicare and the health care debate: Fantasy may take on more realism in 2012Ortho SuperSite
Daily Press -Canada Free Press -Insurance News Net (press release)
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The Guardian
High cost of mental health failure
The Press Association
Failing to tackle mental health problems among people with conditions such as diabetes and heart disease is costing the NHS billions every year, researchers have said. Those with long-term health problems are two to three times more likely to also ...
Long-term condition patients' mental health needs ignoredOnMedica
King's Fund warns mental health failings cost NHS billionsGP online
Failure to deal with long-term health problems 'costs NHS £13bn a year'The Guardian

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
FLORIDA: Hospitals and nursing homes brace for Medicaid-related cutbacks
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
But hospitals can still expect significant state cuts for their Medicaid care in the new budget year, with the House backing a plan to slash rates by 7 percent and the Senate unveiling a measure on Wednesday that could result in a 10 percent reduction.
Sen. Negron releases health-care budget plan with $390 million in cutsTCPalm
Senate budget calls for more local funding, less state money for hospitalsMiamiHerald.com (blog)

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WCSH-TV
LePage proposes nation's toughest Medicaid cuts
Bangor Daily News
By Christine Vestal, Stateline.org AUGUSTA, Maine — Medicaid spending is a matter of urgency almost everywhere in the country right now, but in few places is the urgency as palpable as it is here, where the governor refers to the federal-state health ...
First round of Medicaid cuts clears first hurdleWCSH-TV
Appropriation Committee's Unanimous Budget Agreement Faces LePage Veto ThreatMPBN News
LePage says GOP should use majority power to pass Medicaid cutsLewiston Sun Journal
WABI -Kennebec Journal
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Gaps persist in campus mental health services
Fond du Lac Reporter
Murphy's story underscores a national dilemma: a surge in students seeking intensive counseling and psychiatric care, which college mental health centers often lack resources to provide. The problem has become even more urgent in the wake of mass ...

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ABC Online
Mental health patients using drugs/alcohol
Ninemsn
Howard Brown, of the Victims of Crime Assistance League, says mental health patients found not guilty of murder and other serious crimes are among Morisset patients accessing illegal drugs and alcohol. Jennings was committed to psychiatric care after ...
Sex killer Trent Jennings's escape will see changesHerald Sun

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BBC News
NHS reforms: Ministers wavering after mental health defeat
Politics.co.uk
By Alex Stevenson Follow @alex__stevenson Ministers may choose not to fight a Lords defeat on the role of mental health in the government's NHS reforms. Officials at the Department of Health have not yet decided whether they will accept last night's ...
Mental health at heart of government's first Health Bill defeatGP online
First defeat over NHS reformsOnMedica
Government defeated on NHS billThe Press Association
Yorkshire Post -Practice Business -Daily Mail
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Christian Science Monitor
Court says Medicare beneficiaries can't opt out if they receive Social Security
News-Medical.net
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey is among the five senior citizens who sued to stop their automatic eligibility for Medicare. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that seniors who receive Social Security cannot reject their legal right to ...
Romney touts vouchers, vows to protect Medicare, Social SecurityThe Detroit News
Social Security retirees can't ditch Medicare, court rulesChristian Science Monitor
Social Security recipients cannot opt out of Medicare, appeals court rulesMcKnight's Long Term Care News
Alexandria Echo Press -Chicago Tribune -GOPUSA
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Washington state's Medicaid program will no longer pay for unnecessary ER visits
News-Medical.net
Washington state's Medicaid program will no longer pay for ER visits deemed medically unnecessary. Elsewhere, Illinois' governor will propose $2 billion in Medicaid cuts, and fallout continues over controversial proposals to reform California's ...

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Support changes in Louisiana Medicaid
The Daily Advertiser
When members of the administration and lawmakers sit down to puzzle out a state budget every year, Medicaid is the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the room. Maybe the guys in suits acknowledge its presence, and maybe they pretend they can ignore it.
Malloy's Proposal To 'Gut' Medicaid For Low Income Adults Will Face OppositionCT Newsjunkie
Pa. nursing homes brace for another round of state cutsPhiladelphia Inquirer
Bethany Health Care tapped as best in the nationMetroWest Daily News
The Connecticut Mirror
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Support changes in Louisiana Medicaid
Opelousas Daily World
When members of the administration and lawmakers sit down to puzzle out a state budget every year, Medicaid is the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the room. Maybe the guys in suits acknowledge its presence, and maybe they pretend they can ignore it.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Medicaid plan draws praise
Times Herald-Record
Andrew Cuomo's plan to ease counties' Medicaid burden at the session with Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy.CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record By Chris Mckenna MONTGOMERY — In a show of bipartisan support Wednesday, Republican and Democratic politicians alike ...

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McKnight's Long Term Care News
Medicaid costs NY $54 billion a year, but revamped program stays under cost cap
The Journal News | LoHud.com
ALBANY — Medicaid costs a whopping a $54 billion a year in New York — more than $1 billion a week to provide health-care insurance to the poor and disabled. But as New York nears the end of its first year under a revamped Medicaid program, ...
Cuomo's Medicaid Proposal Would Help Provide Extra Savings For StateNY1
Health care trust fund headed to a zero balanceHattiesburg American
Nursing home groups respond to Obama's proposed Medicare and Medicaid cutsMcKnight's Long Term Care News
U.S. News & World Report -West Virginia MetroNews -Macon Telegraph (blog)
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Toledo Blade
Mental-health care services face cuts
Toledo Blade
BY KATE GIAMMARISE Mental-health care providers and advocates are warning that looming cuts at the county's Mental Health & Recovery Services Board will mean tough choices and fewer services for the mentally ill and their families.

Christian Science Monitor
Romney touts vouchers, vows to protect Medicare, Social Security
The Detroit News
Standing before an audience of seniors on his recent campaign swing through Florida, Mitt Romney promised: "We will never go after Medicare or Social Security. We will protect those programs." If voters look closer at his Medicare plan, they'll find ...
Court says Medicare beneficiaries can't opt out if they receive Social SecurityNews-Medical.net
Social Security retirees can't ditch Medicare, court rulesChristian Science Monitor
Social Security recipients cannot opt out of Medicare, appeals court rulesMcKnight's Long Term Care News
Alexandria Echo Press -Chicago Tribune -GOPUSA
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Manhattan Mercury
Kansas lawmaker: Fear shouldn't stop Medicaid change
Dodge City Daily Globe
By John Hanna AP Kansas shouldn't let fear of change prevent it from overhauling Medicaid, an influential legislator said Tuesday, as Gov. Sam Brownback's administration stuck with plans to let private companies manage the $2.9 billion program starting ...
Medicaid pushLawrence Journal World
Advocates worried Medicaid reform would hurt accessMcPherson Sentinel
Brownback administration plans to choose Medicaid providers by summerBizjournals.com
Pittsburg Morning Sun
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MyFox Houston
Hospital exec charged in $116 million Medicare scam
Houston Chronicle
By Terri Langford, Houston Chronicle The assistant administrator of Riverside General Hospital was arrested Wednesday in connection with more than $100 million in mental health clinic claims filed to Medicare. The assistant administrator of Riverside ...
Assistant Administrator of Houston Hospital Indicted for Alleged Role in $116 ...7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Hospital official accused of $116 million fraudabc13.com
Houston Hospital at Center of RaidMyFox Houston

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Quinn Proposes 2-Billion in Medicaid Cuts
MyStateline.com
Governor Pat Quinn wants to cut 2-billion dollars from Medicaid as part of his state budget plan, but not all state leaders think such a cut is the right way to solve our fiscal problems. There are 2.7 million poor and disabled people in Illinois who ...
Adding Some Context To The State's Medicaid DebateProgress Illinois
Quinn eyes Medicaid reformWLDS-WEAI News
QC Hospitals Upset About Possible Medicaid CutsKWQC 6

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Medicaid will choose what they want to cover during ER visits
KNDO/KNDU
Starting April 1st, Medicaid can decide whether your trip to the ER constitutes an emergency and if they decide it wasn't necessary, they will not cover it. "The kind of non-emergency treatment we're trying to eliminate is not people having chest pains ...
State Medicaid to quit paying for ER visits deemed unnecessaryThe Seattle Times
PolitiJax: Democrats wary of limit to ER visitsFlorida Times-Union

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