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		<title>Medicaid Around the Country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Texas Medicaid enrollment interactive. &#8220;Use this interactive to compare the number of Texans enrolled in Medicaid, the Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Program and the Women&#8217;s Health Program. By clicking on the legend, you can remove or add a category from view in order to more clearly compare how enrollment has changed for different groups of people.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garloward.com/2012/02/03/medicaid-around-the-country/</link>
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		<title>TX Register Updates: TANF Changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following information was obtained from the February 3 issue of the Texas Register: HHSC proposed amendments to §355.101, Introduction, and §355.107, Notification of Exclusions and Adjustments. The changes would create a formal definition for the term &#8220;line item&#8221; and eliminate a reference to auditors. HHSC also proposed to amend §372.107, persons excluded from TANF [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garloward.com/2012/02/03/tx-register-updates-tanf-changes/</link>
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		<title>IL and PLs: Adverse Licensing, Crime Reporting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DADS released one information and two provider letters. CLASS CSA, CLASS, DSA, HCS, TxHmL, CDA, and Local Authorities: DADS is expanding utilization management and review activities for its Medicaid community entitlement and waiver programs, effective January 1, 2012. (Letter) ADC, ALF, HCSSA, ICF/ID, and NF: Beginning March 1, 2012, if the name of an applicant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garloward.com/2012/01/31/il-and-pls-adverse-licensing-crime-reporting/</link>
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		<title>TX Register Update: Specialty Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following information was obtained from the January 27 issue of the Texas Register. HHSC proposed new §354.1853, Specialty Drugs, which provides a definition and criteria for specialty drugs. An excerpt: Section 1.02(d), Senate Bill 7, 82nd Legislature, First Called Session, 2011, amends Texas Government Code §533.005(a) by adding paragraph (23)(G) to require Medicaid managed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garloward.com/2012/01/27/tx-register-update-specialty-drugs/</link>
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		<title>ILs: Nursing Changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DADS released three information letters. HCS and TxHmL: These providers must be in compliance with nursing changes by January 1, 2012, with the following requirements: HCS and TxHmL program providers must be in compliance by January 1, 2012 with the following requirements: • All licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) must be clinically supervised by a registered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garloward.com/2012/01/25/ils-nursing-changes/</link>
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		<title>TX Register Updates: Feb. 15 Hearing, Emergency Rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following information was obtained from the January 20 issue of the Texas Register. Public Notices HHSC will hold a public hearing on February 15, 2012, at 1:30 p.m., to receive comment on proposed Medicaid payment rates for Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies; payment rates for annual Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garloward.com/2012/01/23/tx-register-updates-feb-15-hearing-emergency-rules/</link>
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		<title>IL and PLs: Inappropriately Placed Residents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DADS released one information and two provider letters. Assistant Living Facilities: The legislature has made changes to the process of removing an inappropriately placed resident. An excerpt: An inappropriately placed resident is a resident who was appropriate when admitted to the ALF, but whose condition has changed. All residents must be appropriate for the ALF [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garloward.com/2012/01/19/il-and-pls-inappropriately-placed-residents/</link>
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		<title>Medicare/Medicaid News Around the Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MedPAC, a group that advises Congress on Medicare, recommends an overhaul in the way skilled nursing homes are reimbursed. &#8220;Congress also should direct HHS to cut payments to skilled nursing facilities with relatively high risk-adjusted rehospitalization rates for their Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility stays.&#8221; &#8211; McKnight&#8217;s Raising the age of Medicare eligibility. &#8220;Medicare provides health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garloward.com/2012/01/19/medicaremedicaid-news-around-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Three Year Old Denied Kidney Transplant because She is Special Needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this is what they think of the clients of providers of care for the developmentally disabled. Does it all come back to this?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garloward.com/2012/01/17/three-year-old-denied-kidney-transplant-because-she-is-special-needs/</link>
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		<title>TX Register Updates: Military Spouses, Denying Licenses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following information appeared in the January 13 issue of the Texas Register. Public Notices HHSC adopted a new per diem payment rate for the Tyler state-owned veterans nursing facility: $237.00. HHSC intends to submit to CMS a request to amend the Youth Empowerment Services waiver to expand the geographical area of the waiver to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garloward.com/2012/01/17/tx-register-updates-military-spouses-denying-licenses/</link>
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