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State’s hospital profits soar
Arizona hospitals overall saw huge increases in their profits last year despite — or more likely, because of — Covid. New figures from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System...
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House Republicans kill attempt to expand insurance program for children
The House voted along party lines Thursday to defeat a Democratic attempt to expand KidsCare eligibility by amending a bill funding the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. Rep. Kelli...
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Paul Petersen pleads guilty, faces jail time
Paul Petersen (Maricopa County Assessor’s Office via AP) Former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, who was accused of paying women from the Marshall Islands to deliver...
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Court finds fed law supersedes Arizona ‘balance billing’ law
Hospitals that accept payment from the state’s Medicaid program can’t then try to collect more by going after money owed to the patient, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday. In...
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Arizona quietly suspends Medicaid work requirement
Arizona has suspended plans to require about 120,000 people to work, volunteer or go to school to receive Medicaid benefits, as courts have taken a dim view of similar mandates...
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Medicaid work requirements to take effect in fall 2020
(Deposit Photos/Stillfx) About 120,000 Arizonans are going to have to prove they’re working, going to school or doing volunteer service to keep getting free health care....
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County expands effort to combat outbreak of HIV infections
When I walk through the McDowell Healthcare Center, I’m sometimes overwhelmed by the number of people with new HIV infections, like the 27-year-old who appeared recently with rapidly developing black...
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State Medicaid agency approves more treatment options for opioid addiction
(Stock/Karen Foley Photography) Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Director Jami Snyder approved new treatment options for opioid patients using Medicaid Thursday, after the Pharmacy and...
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Doctors call on AHCCCS to add treatment options for opioid addiction
(Stock/Karen Foley Photography) The Arizona Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee will consider Thursday whether to recommend expanding the number of medications to treat opioid dependency that are...
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Money for dental care for pregnant women missing from budget
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 54 percent of babies born in Arizona are born to mothers covered by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS, the state’s...
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AZ Supreme Court rules medical confidentiality suspended in cases of Medicaid fraud
Arizona Supreme Court (Dillon Rosenblatt/Arizona Capitol Times) Fraud investigations trump Arizona’s physician-patient privilege, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday. In a unanimous decision, the justices upheld...
