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340B DSH hospitals provide nearly twice as much care as non-340B hospitals – 41.9 percent versus 22.8 percent – to Medicaid beneficiaries and low-income Medicare patients. 340B hospitals provide 40 percent more uncompensated care as a percent of total patient care costs than non-340B hospitals – $24.6 billion to $17.5 billion.
The Healthcare Systems Bureau was formerly the Bureau of Health Resources Development, which was created at the end of the Public Health Service reorganizations of 1966–1973 by combining the Community Health Service and the Health Facilities Planning and Construction Service from the recently abolished Health Services and Mental Health Administration (HSMHA). [1]
The Drug Rebate Equalization Act of 2009 (DRE), introduced in the 111th United States Congress by Representative Bart Stupak as H.R. 904, and in the Senate by Senator Jeff Bingaman as S. 547, sought to equalize the treatment of prescription drug discounts between Medicaid managed care and Medicaid fee-for-service.
The 340B drug pricing program, originally intended to help low-income and uninsured patients, has been exploited by special interests for profit, resulting in higher drug prices, taxes, and ...
Under this system, health centers receive a fixed, per-visit payment for any visit by a patient with Medicaid, regardless of the length or intensity of the visit. The per-visit rate for the Medicaid PPS is specific to the individual health center location.
Mental health patients in Arkansas can be held against their will for 72 hours if they are deemed a danger to themselves or to others. But to keep them any longer than that, a medical provider ...
A psychiatrist at an Arkansas hospital has been accused of holding 26 people against their will and taking part in a medical insurance scam. Dr Brian Hyatt is being investigated by federal and ...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced the approval of the Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System as one of only 12 new Fisher House program priority sites on January 26, 2021. [5] In August 2021, the system benefited from a $209,000 grant from US Department of Veteran Affairs to fight homelessness in Little Rock. [6] [7]