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Arkansas Advocate: Southwest Arkansas needs more funding for health services, providers and law enforcement say
12 Sep 2025 09:59 GMT
… beds. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services subsidizes critical … inpatient treatment of Medicare recipients.
If CMS approves Southwest Arkansas Regional’s … the federal 340B discount prescription drug pricing program.
Lawmakers and local …
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State seeking fitness to proceed exam for Arkansas psychiatrist accused of fraud
10 Sep 2025 13:14 GMT
… Brian Hyatt, the former Northwest Arkansas psychiatrist embroiled in an ongoing … and billings submitted to Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance" was … July 10, including stabilization and medication management.
In addition to his …
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A Democrat for Trump’s Drug Policy: Why MFN Is the Right Leverage
07 Sep 2025 10:16 GMT
… global price for the same medication.
The industry’s scientific … for the same drugs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services … distributing the costs of drug development more fairly across … to set it. In Arkansas, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders …
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Arkansas Heart Hospital Cuts 4% of Staff Amid Rising Costs, Low Reimbursements
01 Sep 2025 05:00 GMT
… a major contraction, but Arkansas Heart Hospital recently eliminated about … operations since weight-loss drugs like Ozempic have become … to be disappointed by their drug-induced weight loss results, … of care, according to medicare.gov. The Heart Hospital …
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If the Dems Want to Beat Trump, They Should Embrace Medicare for All
24 Aug 2025 13:48 GMT
… heavily Republican states like Arkansas. And there is now … for Universal Medicare
In moving toward universal Medicare, it is … drugs and medical equipment. If a year’s treatment with a drug … spending.
Moving to universal Medicare will be difficult both …
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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Happy 60th, Medicare and Medicaid!
21 Aug 2025 18:41 GMT
… the addition of outpatient prescription drugs in 2006 — really has not … traditional Medicare. And then Part D, and Part D is prescription drug … work requirements. The experiments from Arkansas and New Hampshire and other …
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Most-Favored-Nation, Executive Order 14297|Forward Looking Perspectives for Drug Manufacturers, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Health Plans, and Pharmacies
19 Aug 2025 19:08 GMT
… Medicare and Medicaid drug pricing strategies; increasing access to certain drugs; accelerating the drug … a ban recently passed in Arkansas,12 could render this model … seen with the IRA Medicare Drug Price Negotiations, drug price reduction may reduce …
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The Cure is Worse Than the Disease: Arkansas’ PBM Law Shows Why Economic Amnesia Is Dangerous
14 Aug 2025 18:23 GMT
… preserved access for thousands of Arkansas patients—especially in rural … specifically, the 2003 creation of Medicare Part D. The government … added a vast new prescription drug entitlement, and someone needed … wrong to be concerned. Drug prices are high, and …
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Appeals court allows Arkansas to enforce gender-affirming care ban
12 Aug 2025 21:11 GMT
… erred in striking down Arkansas’s Save Adolescents From … Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, one of the groups … medications and rare surgeries to treat gender dysphoria in minors since Arkansas … and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expected …
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STAT+: The Medicare Advantage research machine
11 Aug 2025 23:20 GMT
… The studies consistently documented Medicare Advantage’s benefits, but … , and political, ground. Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee … their attempts to derail Medicare’s drug negotiation program in … could use for 340B drugs, Nicole DeFeudis of Endpoints …