by - July 23, 2015 7:56 am
Medicare’s Hospital Insurance trust fund, otherwise known as Medicare Part A, is scheduled to be depleted in 2030, and Social Security’s combined funds will be depleted by 2035, according to two new reports.
by - July 22, 2015 10:00 pm
Arkansas ranks 44th in the latest Annie E. Casey Kids Count report, three spots lower than the previous year. The report was released Tuesday. The state was 44th in economic…
by - July 22, 2015 2:30 pm
Editor’s note: Each Wednesday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Health Beat,” a round-up of health-related topics in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free here. HHS ISSUES…
by - July 22, 2015 12:31 pm
Next year, Arkansas should have a new water plan in place. What will it do?
by - July 22, 2015 6:29 am
Arkansas is one of only a few states that does not have its own dental school. That could change in a few years, as UAMS is exploring that option.
by - July 21, 2015 3:08 pm
The University of Arkansas Eleanor Mann School of Nursing has received a federal grant of $1 million to increase the number of advanced practice registered nurses. The grant of $1,081,735…
by - July 21, 2015 8:55 am
The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas broke ground on a new $8.5 million housing facility on the campus of Arkansas Children’s Hospital on Tuesday.
by - July 20, 2015 7:16 pm
Scott Rasmussen writes in Real Clear Politics that there’s a reason why insurance companies in many states are asking for large premium increases this year: Because next year is an…
by - July 17, 2015 12:28 am
The Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative has produced some savings, but the state should consider looking at other, more proven strategies, legislators were told Thursday. The Health Care Reform Legislative Task…
by - July 16, 2015 7:29 pm
Enrollees in the state’s private option visit the emergency room at five times the rate of the rest of the Blue Cross population and are less likely to use their…
by - July 16, 2015 7:24 pm
Arkansas Medicaid officials have sent notices of termination to 25,000 Medicaid beneficiaries, almost all of them recipients of the state’s private option, informing them that they are losing their eligibility because they did not respond to a request for income verification.
by - July 16, 2015 7:31 am
Arkansas should expand intensive home and community-based health services and develop a plan to reduce caseloads to address a rising foster care population and a high rate of child maltreatments….
by - July 15, 2015 8:22 pm
Arkansas pharmacists are reimbursed $3 less for dispensing generics than they are for brand-name drugs, creating a disincentive to sell them, Mark Riley, executive vice president of the Arkansas Pharmacists…
by - July 15, 2015 8:13 pm
Arkansas’ annual 2.2% growth in Medicaid spending from 2010-13 places it below the U.S. average of about 4% and in the middle of adjacent states – well below Oklahoma’s more…
by - July 15, 2015 11:05 am
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center recently became the only Arkansas hospital to earn the 2015 Most Wired Award from the American Hospital Association Health Forum…
by - July 15, 2015 10:39 am
A plan to reopen Crittenden Regional Hospital in West Memphis received an overwhelming okay Tuesday by county voters. The five-year, one-cent sales tax was approved by a 2,888 to 444…
by - July 15, 2015 9:40 am
Editor’s note: Each Wednesday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Health Beat,” a round-up of health-related topics in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free here. HEALTH CARE…
by - July 15, 2015 9:30 am
A proposal announced Tuesday at the White House Conference on Aging would make major changes to improve the care and safety of the nearly 1.5 million residents in the more…
by - July 14, 2015 7:58 pm
Arkansas, like 44 other states, gets an “F” for its medical pricing transparency from one report, but a statewide effort could raise the score and help consumers better understand what…
by - July 14, 2015 6:18 am
More than 15,000 individuals have lost state government health benefits because their family incomes vary at least 10% from their original applications and they did not respond to government requests to verify their incomes.
