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Massachusetts Task Force Recommends Boost in Medicaid Share to Hospitals.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2002

By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 28--An emergency task force appointed 18 months ago to study the state's troubled health care system will recommend higher Medicaid payments to hospitals and nursing homes and closer monitoring of financial problems, in a final report scheduled to be released today. But several of the group's members are calling for more aggressive intervention.

The task force was appointed by the governor and Legislature after Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, one of the state's largest managed care insurance companies, nearly went bankrupt in the winter of 2000.

The panel has made no dramatic recommendations, and the report mostly advises state officials and lawmakers to continue...

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