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Neuman introduces legislation to combat health care fraud

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Stae Rep. Brandon Neuman, D-North Strabane Township, introduced legislation in the state House of Representatives this week to combat health care waste, fraud and abuse. House Bill 1493, the Pennsylvania False Claims Act, was introduced by Neuman and state Rep. Tony DeLuca. More than 30 Democratic and Republican House members already co-sponsor the bill.

Pennsylvanians lose as much as $200 million a year through Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, Neuman said. Our Pennsylvania False Claims Act legislation House Bill 1493 would go a long way toward deterring this dishonesty.

The bill will allow for a unique private and public partnership with citizens who have knowledge of wrongdoings by vendors benefiting from state money. The whistleblowers would also be authorized to initiate false claims actions.

Neuman said an important ally, state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane, also supports the initiative. Under the legislation, the state attorney general would have primary responsibility for investigating and prosecuting false claims actions.

The bill would increase the commonwealths share of recovery under a successful Medicaid fraud lawsuit by 10 percent via a federal incentive program, Neuman said. More than half of the states and the District of Columbia have false claims acts, and implementing one in Pennsylvania would provide a new source of revenue while punishing those who steal taxpayer dollars.

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7 States With the Highest Health Care Costs

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While many focus on the cost of health insurance premiums, relatively little media attention is being given to the actual cost of health care itself. According to the latest data available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, the annual cost of health care in the U.S. (excluding insurance premiums) is $6,815 per person. Depending on where you live, though, the costs could be much higher.

CMS gathers data from all types of health care providers -- hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, and other providers. It also collects information regarding spending on medical products including prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, eyeglasses, and hearing aids, among others. Based on the agency's analysis, hereare the seven states with the highest health care costs of all.

7. Rhode IslandThe smallest state in the U.S. by geographical size doesn't have equally small health care costs. Rhode Island's per-capita health care spending of $8,309 is nearly 22% higher than for the nation as a whole.

6. New YorkOne of the nation's largest states in terms of population also spends large amounts on health care. New York residents spend $8,341 on health care per capita. This amount is a little more than 22% higher than the U.S. figure.

5. DelawareDelaware's state motto is "Liberty and Independence," but citizens of the state don't have as much liberty or independence from high medical costs as many of their fellow Americans. The state's $8,480 health care spendingper capita ranks more than 24% higher than that of the entire U.S.

4. MaineMaine is known for its lobsters, but its medical costs might have even bigger claws. Residents spend $8,521 per person on health care -- 25% higher than Americans as a whole.

3. ConnecticutConnecticut claims the third-highest median household income in the U.S. but also ranks No. 3 in the nation for health care spending. The state's $8,654 per-capita figure amounts to nearly 27% more than that of the entire country.

2. AlaskaAlaska is near the top of the planet -- and near the top in health care spending for the nation. Alaskans spend around $9,128 per person on health care. That's almost 34% higher than the figure for the U.S.

1. MassachusettsMassachusetts ranks as the biggest spender when it comes to health care. The state's $9,278 per-capita figure is a whopping 36% higher than that of the entire country. While some might point to "RomneyCare" as the culprit, it's not. Massachusetts ranked near the top well before the legislation was enacted. We should also note that the District of Columbia, which isn't technically a state, comes in even higher with $10,349 per capita in health care spending.

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Priority Health Expands Access to Quality Health Care for Medicaid

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Priority Health announced today that it has improved access to quality health care for Medicaid members in Michigan with an expanded relationship with Metro Health. Through a new agreement with the award-winning community hospital, Priority Health Medicaid members will now have access to the Metro Health network of physicians, neighborhood outpatient centers and the Metro Health Hospital in Wyoming. The agreement is an extension of Priority Healths existing contract with Metro Health, which already offers access to Priority Health HMO, PPO, individual and Medicare members.

We are committed to addressing real concerns around access to health care for our Medicaid members, said Michael P. Freed, president and CEO of Priority Health. Its Priority Healths mission to provide access to excellent and affordable health care and improve the health and lives of the people we serve.

With the addition of Metro Health hospital and physicians, Priority Health will further enhance its already sizeable Medicaid network of more than 8,000 health care providers and 39 hospitals serving its nearly 70,000 Medicaid members.

We are very pleased to expand our relationship with Priority Health in order to better serve Medicaid patients in West Michigan, said Michael Faas, president and CEO of Metro Health. As a community hospital, we are committed to providing access to quality, affordable health care to our residents. As new regulations come into effect under federal health care reform, Metro Health is looking at ways to expand the services we provide. We look forward to serving more Medicaid patients through our expanded relationships with Priority Health.

Pending approval from the State of Michigan, under the Affordable Care Act, individuals under 65years of age with income below 133percent of the federal poverty level will be eligible for Medicaid. Those interested in finding out if they are eligible for Medicaid today can fill out an application at their local Department of Human Services (DHS) office. Visit http://www.michigan.gov/dhs to learn more. To determine eligibility for Medicaid under the new health care reform rules visit understandinghealthreform.com.

Also new to its agreement with Metro Health is a continuity of care arrangement which enables Priority Health members to continue to see their Metro Health physician even if they switch between employer-sponsored, individual, Medicare or Medicaid coverage.

Traditionally access to a facility or physician varies depending on the type of health insurance you carry, adds Freed. With our enhanced agreement with Metro Health, we are making it easier for our members to access quality health care and preserve the relationships they have built with their physician and hospital regardless of the Priority Health product they have selected.

Priority Healths Commercial HMO/POS, Medicaid, Medicare PPO and Medicare HMO/POS plans have all earned Excellent ratings in five key areas; Access & Service, Qualified Providers, Staying Healthy, Getting Better, and Living with Illness, from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the most rigorous and comprehensive accreditation organization in the industry.

Priority Health offers Medicaid benefits in 17 counties in Michigan. A map of Priority Healths Medicaid service area is available at priorityhealth.com.

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Poll: Deep divide between parties on health care reform

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>>> president obama is on the road today trying to sell his health care plan. boy, does he have a lot of selling to do. according to the latest poll, the law remains unpopular with the american public. perhaps growing more so. poll shows 49% of americans believe health care reform is a bad idea. compare that to just 37% who say it's a good idea. 38% of respondents believe they will be worse off under the law compared to just 19% who say they will be better off and there's a deep division between the two pearties on how they think they'll fair. 67% of republicans say they'll be worse off compareded to just 4% who say they will be better off. let's bring in our gaggle. president of american bridge and former spokesman to harry reid . republican pollster kristen anderson and nbc correspondent kelly o'donnell.

>> morning.

>> morning.

>> health care 's unpopular. that's not news, kelly, but i think the fact that it is a growing gulf. it's a little bit, it's always been a challenge imp menation, much more so and the president's doing an event today, a rare event when it comes to health care .

>> people have been saying these last couple of years, the rollout would be a challenge an we're seeing that and it's complicateded by things like the irs issue. certainly conservatives are jumping on that saying boy, you cannot deed of trust that agency to help implement this. in one case where people seem most happy are the 26-year-olds who get to stay on their parent's plan, a very tangible way people seemed to access that benefit and seemed to like it. but when you get to the complication of it and at a time when people are weary about government, there seems to be a more physical attention about what's going to happen.

>> what's debatable is how much impact is it really going to have on most people. now, we asked people how they get their insurance in various ways so we could slice it up a little bit. not surprisingly, those who self-insure are paying a lot more attention and they believe that they're going to be worse off versus better off and frankly, if you look at the numbers to self-insured, if you're healthy, you are. but this is a very, very small slice of the public. so will that really have the long-term impact politically?

>> if the affordable part of the affordable care act is not a reality, then absolutely. i think more than what president obama can say in a speech or what conservatives can say, more than how that will matter is how it's affecting somebody's bottom line. do they think it's fair. do they think it's a result of obama care and if they think they personally are being negati --

>> i would argue the biggest problem democrats are facing is that there has been a monsoon of money against health care . i'm going to put up a number here. $475 million has been spent on health care . since 2010 . i believe the break down is 400 million against health care . 75 million in favorite. it's been run all over the place. before i get you to respond to that, i want to play an ad up this week against mark pryor . watch a clip.

>> when senator pryor was the deciding vote for obama care, it was a huge let down for the state of arkansas and people haven't forgotten that.

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Health care thorny issue in immigration debate

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By ERICA WERNER Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Health care coverage for newly legalized immigrants is emerging as a thorny issue in Congress' drive to remake the nation's immigration system, posing hard-to-solve problems for Senate negotiators and threatening a bill-writing effort in the House.

The question is how much access to taxpayer-subsidized care should be granted to immigrants who were here illegally and are embarking on a path to citizenship. Answering it has pulled the noxious politics around President Barack Obama's signature health care law into the immigration debate.

That's threatening fragile alliances between Republicans and Democrats, already causing one key House member, GOP Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho, to ditch a bipartisan group in the House that has been struggling to finalize a comprehensive immigration bill.

"What may be the story at the end of this session is that Obamacare killed immigration reform," Labrador said before a last-gasp effort failed this week to resolve the health care dispute in a way he could accept. Now the seven other members of the House group are moving forward without Labrador, who said their proposal doesn't go far enough to ensure that immigrants must pay for all their own health care costs without leaving taxpayers on the hook for any of it.

Health care and immigrants was a hot-button issue even before Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina yelled "You lie!" at Obama four years ago as the president told Congress that immigrants in the country illegally wouldn't be covered under his health plan. For Republicans, allowing immigrants here illegally to get coverage under Obamacare remains a nonstarter, even once they've taken the first steps toward legalizing their status.

"We cannot be providing Obamacare subsidies to people who have been violating our immigration laws," said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., an author of a bipartisan immigration bill that the full Senate began debating Friday.

The Senate bill bars immigrants in a new provisional legal status, the first step toward a green card and citizenship, from getting taxpayer-subsidized care. That includes Medicaid and tax subsidies to buy coverage in the new state purchasing exchanges being set up by Obamacare. The immigrants would be in provisional status for 10 years, and only once they get a permanent resident green card would they be able to access Obamacare subsidies.

The approach is opposed by immigrant advocates who pushed for provisional legal immigrants to be allowed government-subsidized care, arguing that it makes sense for public health and the economy. But the idea was opposed by Republicans, and even Democratic authors of the Senate bill didn't fight too hard for it, advocates said, partly because it would have greatly increased the cost of the legislation. By just how much is unclear. But the Obamacare tax subsidies will cost on average about $5,300 annually for each person who gets them starting next year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

"We definitely were pushing from the start, and basically we tried to remind the Democrats that this was sort of an unfulfilled promise from the Affordable Care Act, when undocumented immigrants were excluded," said Sonal Ambegaokar, health policy attorney at the National Immigration Law Center. She said some Democrats were open to the arguments but that it quickly became clear they wouldn't prevail, "for political reasons, and not economic reasons."

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