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Guest AuthorSeptember 1, 2016

Two pictures of the elderly in America dominate. One pictures seniors as convivial grandparents, spoiling grandchildren with toys and taffy, enjoying priceless moments of conspiratorial mirth. The other dog-eared snapshot isn’t a proud Kodak moment. It pictures silver-headed senior citizens beaten black-and-blue. Or neglected to the point of bedsores. Or sobbing over the realization someone […]

Christine Jordan SextonNovember 17, 2014

A proposed rule outlining how the poor, elderly and disabled will qualify for community-based services in a new Medicaid managed-care environment is getting a chilly review from some advocates, as well as the managed-care plans that will serve them. The proposal — 59G-4.193 — lays out how the state will assign people to the statewide […]

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