- Kaiser Health News reports on an study with expected findings: when times are hard, hospitals expand into affluent areas. In other words, hospitals seek more private-injured individuals. They also buy private practices in those areas and build more emergency services.
- The Texas Tribune reports that lawmakers will include drug reimbursements in the expanding Medicaid managed care, which they believe will save over $100 million. Included in the story is an interactive map that shows access to pharmacies that serve Medicaid recipients.
- The health care reform law would add at least $340 billion to the deficit, according to a conservative economist. The new law, if upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, would increase the Medicaid rolls by millions.
- Arizona will move forward in expanding Medicaid to close to 22,000 low-income children after receiving approval from the federal government. – Arizona Republic
- The health care reform law restricts physician-owned hospitals from expanding or building new hospitals. The Physicians Hospital of America challenged that section of the health care reform law. The group lost in a lower court, but a federal court has agreed to hear the group’s appeal of that decision.