CMS: employment of people with disabilities.(Funding Opportunities)(Centers for Medicare and...

Vera Moulton takes a lot of prescription medicine, and says, "Two or three are on the expensive side." That's why the retired bookkeeper and 33-year-member of the Excelsior Chapter in Enid, OkIa., signed up for a Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card. The cards became available in May 2004 under the ......

Medicare continues as the national health insurance program designed to provide health care for people 65 and over as well as many individuals who are disabled.

HEADNOTE The approval of a Health Care Financing Administration (now called Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) 1115 Medicaid waiver in Oregon allowed the state to design and implement an expanded publicly funded health care system, the Oregon Health Plan (OHP). Integral to OHP is the administration of physical and ......

HHS Proposes Changes Allowing States to Expand Medicaid Coverage The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced it is proposing new rules to help enable more low-income Americans to gain Medicaid coverage. The change, which would allow States greater flexibility in determining Medicaid eligibility, could potentially benefit ......

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced it is proposing new rules to help enable more low-income Americans to gain Medicaid coverage. The change, which would allow States greater flexibility in determining Medicaid eligibility, could potentially benefit tens of thousands of Americans. In particular, it could ......

Last week, I wrote about hiring people with disabilities based on my discussion with author Nancy Henderson Wurst who wrote Able! How one company´s disabled workforce became the key to extraordinary success. We´d all like some extraordinary success though too often we look for it in neat and obvious packages....

Toying with us until the end. on Saturday the 109th Congress paased legislation to reverse the pending 5.1% cut in Medicare fees for 2007. Of course, this is the - what, third? - year that there will be no increase in fees, so we've lost at least 10 percent or ......

A team of attorney's from the Reed Smith law firm published an article recently in the AHLA Health Lawyer's Weekly discussing the "Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 " (DRA)(Pub. L. No. 109-171). In addition to cutting Medicare and Medicaid services, tucked away iis an item requiring all entities that make ......

November 27 to December 3 is National Influenza Vaccination Week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designated the week after Thanksgiving as National Influenza Vaccination Week. This week long event is designed to raise awareness of the importance of continuing influenza (flu) vaccination, as well as foster ......