by admin | Dec 10, 2006 | Uncategorized
The Governor’s Office says as the state looks at revamping Medicaid it’s the acting pioneer for healthcare models nationwide. The Departments of Health, Social Services, and Mental Health focus on preventive healthcare in their proposal to Governor Matt Blunt. Jessica...
by admin | Nov 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
Lt. Governer Peter Kinder says it’s simple and easy… and it saves Medicare recipients money. Kinder is traveling the state urging those eligible to sign up for the state’s prescription drug program during open enrollment which began the first of this month. He hopes...
by admin | Oct 31, 2006 | Health / Medicine
A prescription drug program for poor senior citizens and the disabled is expanding. It’s called the Missouri RX program, which replaced the Senior RX program when Medicare Part D began about 160,000 are served now. Lt. Governor Peter Kinder says the program will...
by admin | Oct 11, 2006 | Uncategorized
A big nursing home company and its former CEO admit they conspired to defraud Medicare and Medicaid to the tune of at least four-million dollars. The federal prosecutor for eastern Missouri, Catherine Hanaway, says the care provided by American Healthcare and its CEO...
by admin | May 23, 2006 | Health / Medicine
May 15th was the much talked about deadline for senior citizens enrolling in the federal prescription drug benefit program to sign up without penalty. But there’s an effort underway to inform seniors that some people who missed the deadline can still get into...
