A California hospital company facing allegations it inflated disease diagnoses to bill Medicare for more expensive conditions — including a form of Third World malnutrition rarely found in the U.S. — is edging into Texas.
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Economy
Economists: Private Job Gains Offset Government Losses
Economists don’t think the loss of state jobs will have a significant continuing impact on the Texas economy.
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Health care
State’s Medicaid Chief Retiring
Billy Millwee, who oversees the state’s giant Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance programs, will retire in August. He has directed the health coverage plans, which account for nearly a quarter of the state’s total budget, since early 2010.
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Health care
Time Running Out for Women’s Health Providers
The clock is ticking for reproductive health clinics that are affiliated with abortion providers — the state will force Planned Parenthood and others like them out of the Women’s Health Program early next month.
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Health care
Redrawn District Creates Volatile Race for Nash
State Rep. Barbara Nash, R-Arlington, is running for re-election in a district that shares only 20 percent of the population with the district that originally elected her two years ago.
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Health care
Open House Races in Tarrant County Draw Bevy of Candidates
Four state representatives in Tarrant County are pursuing higher office this year, sparking four wide open primaries to replace them.
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Health care
Judge’s Reversal Gives State Go-Ahead to Exclude Planned Parenthood Clinics
A federal judge’s ruling this morning means that the state may begin removing Planned Parenthood and other so-called abortion “affiliates” from the Women’s Health Program, despite a district judge’s Monday ruling to the contrary.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson on rate increases at TWIA, E. Smith asks Sen. Wendy Davis about surviving in hostile political territory, Selvidge’s lovely slideshow on the rebirth of the burned out Bastrop State Park, Aguilar on the drawbacks to putting troops on the Mexican border, Galbraith on the expansion in uranium mining, Hamilton on posses in public schools, Murphy charts congressional campaign finance for the first quarter, Ramshaw on the merger of three regional Planned Parenthoods in Texas, Tan on the state’s plans for the Women’s Health Program and Root on the governor’s re-election talk: The best of our best content from April 16 to 20, 2012.
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Health care
In Planned Parenthood Merger, Efficiency is the Name of the Game
The Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas merger makes the organization leaner and more efficient, advocates say. But they also hope it helps them defend their branches from intensifying anti-abortion legislation.
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Health care
State Officials Aim to Take Over Women’s Health Program in November
UPDATED: Texas health officials have delivered their much-anticipated plans for taking over the Medicaid Women’s Health Program. They want to assume full responsibility in November. Federal officials say they’re considering the plan.
