A pharmacy owner will pay more than $3.9 million to settle a Medicaid fraud case against him, the attorney general’s office said Thursday. Noel R. Botsch owns Special Design Health Care, based in Cape Girardeau. The specialty business provides in-home ...

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Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said. Democrats will work on the bill’s details this ...

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Select Specialty Hospital-St. Louis, a long-term acute care hospital based inside Forest Park Community Hospital, is fighting to keep its Medicare and Medicaid funding. On Thursday, Senior U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the ...

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You all know that we have a new governor in office. His name is Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon. He has said that he wants to reinstate Medicaid and all of its benefits for senior citizens, the disabled people and the ...

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