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K Pallarito

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Budget deficits threaten to shut out Medicaid benefits.

Revenue shortfalls are prompting state officials to seek creative ways to keep their Medicaid programs afloat. Some tactics include voluntary provider contributions and provider taxes to increase federal matching funds and paring back on the number and kind of benefits that states offer. Hospital groups, meanwhile, are starting their own grass-roots campaigns to shield Medicaid from crippling budget cuts.

Budgets↗

Credit unions a safe bet for hospitals.

Though Rhode Island has had its troubles recently, credit unions are still a financially sound and popular employee benefit, experts said. A credit union costs a healthcare institution virtually nothing to sponsor, and the cooperatives are in much better shape than savings and loans.

Investments↗

Painful lessons.

In light of government proposals to radically reduce reimbursement for graduate medical education and because of increasing pressures from payers, America's teaching hospitals are turning to innovative strategies to make up shortfalls and accomplish more with less. While some managers are talking layoffs and other cost-cutting moves, hospital groups are vowing to lobby hard in defense of GME funding.

Education, Medical, Graduate↗