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• Some States Getting a Head Start on Health Plan Ratings
• Mar 1, 2013
• A handful of states, including Oregon, Maryland, Minnesota and California, are opting to start rating health plans based on quality well before they're required to in 2016 under federal health reform.

• Illegal Immigrants Most Helped by Emergency Medicaid Program
• Feb 13, 2013
• Federal law generally bars illegal immigrants from being covered by Medicaid, but a little-known part of the state-federal health insurance program for the poor pays about $2 billion a year for emergency treatment for a group of patients comprised mostly of illegal immigrants.

• Feds Urge Maryland to Think Big on Health Care Cost Control
• Aug 28, 2012
• Federal officials are urging Maryland and its powerful health industry to build on the state's unique hospital rate-setting system to develop sweeping cost controls that could be used as a model for other states.
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