{"id":34818,"date":"2009-10-29T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"b3fc1f7b-131d-4ea8-8dfe-83d8c6fd3c61"},"modified":"2009-10-29T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T13:57:00","slug":"coverage-details-hits-taken-by-medicaid-programs-in-state-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/34818","title":{"rendered":"Coverage Details Hits Taken By Medicaid Programs In State Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Medicaid and other health programs have fallen under the axe or been moved onto the chopping block this week. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5ijT8HEzsBvFBCvipqnkCHL74dQbQD9BKD4CO0\">Associated Press<\/a>: &#8220;Gov. Jay Nixon cut an additional $204 million from Missouri&#8217;s budget Wednesday and eliminated nearly 700 jobs in attempt to offset a continued decline in state tax revenues.&#8221; The cuts include lowering Medicaid payments (Lieb, 10\/18). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiamissourian.com\/stories\/2009\/10\/29\/cuts-medicaid-top-nixons-withholdings\/\">Columbia Missourian<\/a>: &#8220;Under Nixon&#8217;s plan, Medicaid programs face a loss of more than $32 million, mental health programs will lose $3 million, and MU Health Care-affiliated hospitals and clinics around the state will lose $3 million. \u2026 Nixon said services will not be drastically affected. Health care advocates, however, said there would be an impact on health care&#8221; (Beitsch, 10\/29). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jXaLwB8vMNQzdyRTk22Wqz78mCRQD9BK5LL80\">Associated Press<\/a>: &#8220;Health care services for the needy may be sharply reduced if New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson signs a budget-cutting measure approved by the Legislature, the administration said Tuesday.&#8221; The health department stands to lose about $38 million in state funding, as well as an additional $115 million in federal matching money (Massey, 10\/28). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5j_OhVwcyQhPq7OzUmYm9rbKn7nSgD9BK87IO0\">Associated Press<\/a>: &#8220;Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter laid out his plan to cut another $286 million from the state budget on Wednesday, including reductions in Medicaid provider rates&#8221; (Paulson, 10\/28). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/economy\/NEW_HOSPITAL_AFFILIATION_10-29-09_I4G8RP7_v20.38addac.html\">Providence Journal<\/a>: In an unrelated story, two nonprofit Rhode Island hospitals have gained approval to affiliate under a corporate parent. The new company would control 15 percent of the state&#8217;s hospital market. Officials said their main concerns where that the new hospital company continue providing care to Rhode Island patients, and that it preserve jobs (Salit, 10\/29). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/oct\/29\/state-faults-facility-care-seniors\/\">Las Vegas Sun<\/a>: The Nevada health department has begun an investigation into an allegedly negligent nursing home. &#8220;All 139 elderly patients at an assisted-living and Alzheimer\u2019s facility may have gone without their medications for weeks.&#8221; (Allen, 10\/29).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/NhjNzOSllXU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Medicaid and other health programs have fallen under the axe or been moved onto the chopping block this week. Associated Press: &#8220;Gov. Jay Nixon cut an additional $204 million from Missouri&#8217;s budget Wednesday and eliminated nearly 700 jobs in attempt to offset a continued decline in state tax revenues.&#8221; The cuts include lowering Medicaid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}