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Budget language sparks confusion, accusations over transplant coverage
Confusing and roundabout language in the 2012 budget led to several days of Democratic sniping at Gov. Jan Brewer, who said the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System is on its way to restoring transplant coverage that was eliminated last year.
Use medical marijuana sales tax money for transplants
I have had a pretty tough month, but it pales in comparison to those in need of a life-saving organ transplant.
Lawmaker: Budget hearing to air transplant cuts
State House Appropriations Chairman John Kavanagh says a promised review of a controversial cut of medical transplant funding will be part of a budget hearing for the state's Medicaid program.
Brewer calls transplants “potentially life-saving” in letter to Congress
The organ transplants that Gov. Jan Brewer has repeatedly described as “optional” sounded a lot more serious when she asked Congress for relief from federal health care mandates.
Playing semantics with transplant funding
Although her office has consistently characterized the transplants no longer provided by AHCCCCS as "optional," in a recent letter to the incoming speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Brewer said the state has been forced to stop providing "potentially life-saving procedures" because of the federal health care mandate.
AHCCCS eligibility headed back to ballot?
GOP leaders are eyeing a resolution in the upcoming session that would allow voters to reconsider AHCCCS eligibility requirements, in an attempt to roll back the standard set by Prop 204 without running afoul of the voter protections afforded by Prop 105.
Pearce: Transplant denials not our fault
The ramifications of state budget cuts to AHCCCS have come home to roost, as evidenced by the story in this morning's New York Times about what it called "death by budget cut."
Brewer may push for special election on AHCCCS
Gov. Jan Brewer has insisted repeatedly during the past year that the Legislature has the authority to cut spending for Arizona’s Medicaid program below the level that voters thought they had locked 10 years ago. But she appears to have shifted strategy and is planning instead to ask voters to approve the cuts in a special election.
AHCCCS to reduce providers’ pay rates on April 1
Arizona's Medicaid program plans to reduce its payment rates to hospitals, doctors and other health care providers by 5 percent but not until April 1.
