Mississippi Business Journal » health benefit http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Medicaid to pay Health workers; dozens of jobs saved http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/12/medicaid-to-pay-health-workers-dozens-of-jobs-saved/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=medicaid-to-pay-health-workers-dozens-of-jobs-saved http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/12/medicaid-to-pay-health-workers-dozens-of-jobs-saved/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 20:32:58 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=74666 JACKSON — Mississippi Medicaid officials will resume paying state Health Department workers to help women with high-risk pregnancies. The agreement, announced Friday, starts June 1 and runs through June 30, 2014. Medicaid has typically paid the Health Department more than $8.5 million a year for the program. The new agreement reverses last month’s decision by [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/12/medicaid-to-pay-health-workers-dozens-of-jobs-saved/feed/ 0 Medicaid spokesman questions whether expansion will spur growth http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/28/medicaid-spokesman-questions-whether-expansion-will-spur-growth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=medicaid-spokesman-questions-whether-expansion-will-spur-growth http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/28/medicaid-spokesman-questions-whether-expansion-will-spur-growth/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:27:29 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=65802 JACKSON — A spokesman for Mississippi’s Medicaid program is questioning the notion that expanding the federal-state health insurance program is the way to spur economic growth. Francis X. Rullan says he’s speaking only for himself in this instance. But he says it’s not a good idea to base an economic development effort on the dependency [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/28/medicaid-spokesman-questions-whether-expansion-will-spur-growth/feed/ 0 Black lawmakers to push for expanded Medicaid program http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/05/black-lawmakers-to-push-for-expanded-medicaid-program/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=black-lawmakers-to-push-for-expanded-medicaid-program http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/05/black-lawmakers-to-push-for-expanded-medicaid-program/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:13:20 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=59341 JACKSON — Black lawmakers in Mississippi say they support an expansion of the Medicaid program as part of the federal health care overhaul. The lawmakers, speaking at the state Capitol, say they will seek legislation to ratify covering more low-income adults in the 2013 Legislature. “We, the members of the legislative black caucus see this [...]

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