http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. New findings from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment show that Medicaid coverage had no detectable effect on the prevalence of diabetes, high cholesterol, or high blood pressure, but substantially reduced depression, nearly eliminated catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditures, and increased the diagnosis of diabetes and the use of diabetes medication among low-income adults. The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment is the first use of a randomized controlled study design to evaluate the impact of covering the uninsured with Medicaid and provides important evidence for policy makers as the U.S. undertakes Medicaid expansion in 2014. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-medicaid-mental-financial-health-shown.html Health Wed, 01 May 2013 17:00:01 EST news286644231 (AP)—Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration has scrapped plans to shutter the state's Medicaid hospice program in February, meaning the state will continue to provide end-of-life care to people on their death beds who can't afford private insurance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-louisiana-shelves-medicaid-hospice.html Health Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:50:28 EST news278225419 (Medical Xpress)—As the California Legislature prepares to consider bills relating to implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and expanding Medicaid, the state has the opportunity to significantly increase health insurance coverage at minimal cost to the state budget, according to a joint study by the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.    http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-minimal-state-medicaid-expansion-california.html Health Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:12:19 EST news276851532 As lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle look for ways to reduce federal spending in the coming weeks Medicaid may emerge as a prime target, according to a new analysis by Professor Sara Rosenbaum, JD, the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The analysis, which appears online December 5 in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicates that severe cuts to the Medicaid program will cripple the ongoing effort to reform the U.S. health care system. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-analysis-stakes-medicaid-upcoming-fiscal.html Health Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:00:01 EST news273930270 Compared to the nation, a higher proportion of children in California are uninsured, one in every 10 children or more than 1.1 million in 2011. More of California's children have public health insurance and fewer through their parents' employer. And, over the past three years, a decade of advances in California children's public insurance enrollment has stalled, as coverage in Healthy Families (California's children's health insurance program) declined as a result of reductions in state government funding. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-higher-proportion-california-children-uninsured.html Health Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:31:43 EST news272140294 (AP)—A think tank allied with the White House is releasing a plan for Medicare cuts—hoping to stave off even bigger health care reductions in upcoming budget talks with Congress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-liberal-group-outlines-385b-medicare.html Health Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:31:28 EST news272089880 Health coverage for the poorest Americans could be in jeopardy in many states as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last month on the Affordable Care Act, according to a new legal analysis. The report examines federal and state Medicaid options following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in NFIB v Sebelius and appears in the August issue of the journal Health Affairs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-poorest-americans-states-opt-medicaid.html Health Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:00:12 EST news263487284 A study of adolescents with hypertension enrolled in the Michigan Medicaid program suggests that guideline-recommended diagnostic tests – echocardiograms and renal ultrasonography – were poorly used, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-diagnostic-adolescents-hypertension.html Pediatrics Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:00:04 EST news262267743 (AP) — GlaxoSmithKline LLC will pay $3 billion and plead guilty to promoting two popular drugs for unapproved uses and to failing to disclose important safety information on a third in the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history, the Justice Department said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-glaxosmithkline-fined-3bn.html Other Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:49:17 EST news260452152 Nine out of 10 Californians under the age of 65 will be enrolled in health insurance programs as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a joint study by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-non-elderly-californians.html Health Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:37:17 EST news258899801 (AP) -- The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it could throw out other key parts of President Barack Obama's health care law if it first finds the individual insurance requirement unconstitutional. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-health-arguments-portion-survive.html Health Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:32:15 EST news252171121 (AP) -- Physicians are threatening to stop serving nearly a million Puerto Ricans as a result of a dispute between the island's government and an insurance company over reimbursements for treating poor people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-doctors-threaten-medicaid-cutoff-puerto.html Health Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:38:55 EST news229840723 Children and adolescents from states that had higher Medicaid payment levels to dentists between 2000 and 2008 were more likely to receive dental care, although children covered by Medicaid received dental care less often than children with private insurance, according to a study in the July 13 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-higher-medicaid-payments-dentists-dental.html Health Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:47:50 EST news229708056 The U.S. Medicaid program is likely paying far more than necessary for medications and not offering patients the most effective ones available, by ignoring international evidence-based lists of safe and effective medications, according to a new study by researchers at University of California, San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-medicaid-drug.html Medications Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:00:57 EST news227537888 While overall emergency department use in Massachusetts continues to rise, the number of low-severity visits dropped slightly since the implementation of the state's health care reform law, according to an Annals of Emergency Medicine study published online. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-impact-massachusetts-health-law-emergency.html Health Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:39:41 EST news226593566 A reformed Medicaid program must put coordinated primary care at the forefront of its efforts, the American College of Physicians (ACP) said in a new position paper released today at Internal Medicine 2011, ACP's annual scientific meeting. Medicaid and Health Care Reform highlights how primary care physicians will assume a major role in providing care to Medicaid beneficiaries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-reformed-medicaid-forefront-efforts.html Health Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:24:39 EST news221502267