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dylan-scott

Dylan Scott

Staff Writer

Dylan Scott -- Staff Writer. Dylan graduated from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in 2010. While there, he won an Associated Press award for Best Investigative Reporting for a series of stories on the university’s structural deficit. He then worked at the Las Vegas Sun and Center for Education Reform before joining GOVERNING. He has reported on the Supreme Court’s consideration of the Affordable Care Act and various education reform movements in state and local government. When out of the office, Dylan spends his time watching classic films and reading fantasy fiction. Email dscott@governing.com | Twitter @DylanLScott  

Massachusetts, the first state to get approval to coordinate care between Medicaid and Medicare, based its plan on two existing programs that have shown positive results.
The health crisis, which has led to more than 200 infections, could lead to shift from state to federal oversight of compounding pharmacies.
The Minneapolis experiment, which started in 2008, could serve as a model for other cities.
In oral arguments Wednesday, the Court has been asked to decide if public universities can use race to determine admissions.
The new computerized assessments, which states will begin piloting in 2013, mark a radical new approach to testing.
Like any other employers, local governments are preparing themselves for full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the coming year, weighing their options about improving health coverage for employees or letting their workers test the private markets on the health insurance exchanges.
Add Arizona to the short list of states, joining Maryland and Utah, that have selected their state employee health policy as the benchmark for essential health benefits sold on its health insurance exchange.
Medicare may continue to be the marquee showdown between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as they lay out visions for the future of the country's health-care sector, but Medicaid is proving to be a feisty undercard.
Maryland and Utah have picked state employee health plans as benchmarks for the insurance policies sold on their health exchanges.
Some states are considering tying higher ed funding to performance. Ohio has asked the schools themselves to craft a funding model.