http://gruntdoc.com/2010/03/local-news-walgreens-no-new-medicaid-patients-as-of-april-16-seattle-times-newspaper.html Ramblings of an Emergency Physician in Texas Sat, 12 May 2012 12:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://gruntdoc.com/2010/03/local-news-walgreens-no-new-medicaid-patients-as-of-april-16-seattle-times-newspaper.html/comment-page-1#comment-21474 sch Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:23:52 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/?p=4492#comment-21474 Medicaid compensation rates are highly state dependent, so this is a little more parochial than Mayo announcing a cutoff in accepting new medicare pts at branch clinics a few months ago. Arizona just shut down a big chunk of its childrens medicaid affecting several hundred thousand kids for budgetary shortfalls of the whole state government. But these trends will slowly progress as fiscal pressures increase over the next 10yrs. Pity what president #46 will have to deal with after 6yrs of $T fed budget deficits and Obamacare + Medicare beginning to detonate. Medicaid compensation rates are highly state dependent, so this is a little more parochial than Mayo announcing a cutoff
in accepting new medicare pts at branch clinics a few months ago. Arizona just shut down a big chunk of its childrens medicaid
affecting several hundred thousand kids for budgetary shortfalls of the whole state government. But these trends will
slowly progress as fiscal pressures increase over the next 10yrs. Pity what president #46 will have to deal with after
6yrs of $T fed budget deficits and Obamacare + Medicare beginning to detonate.

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