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By Ilana Kowarski Ilana@MarylandReporter.com Lack of psychiatric hospital beds is one of the problems identified by mental health advocates (Photo by StudioTempura/Flickr) There has been a great deal of partisan bickering in

By Becca Heller Becca@MarylandReporter.com Heather Sinclair A bill seeking to make the abuse of patients by their therapists a crime has brought together an unlikely team of legislators and a young woman

By Becca Heller Becca@MarylandReporter.com (By SuperFantastic/Flickr) Tobacco lobbyists and anti-smoking advocates went head to head in a high-stakes hearing Wednesday on the legislature’s latest proposal to raise the tax on a pack

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By Meg Tully meg@marylandreporter.com By Mike Licht, Notions Capital State budget officials do not know how many state employees will qualify for medical coverage under the federal Affordable Care Act, or how

By Ilana Kowarski Ilana@MarylandReporter.com (By Jerome Ware/Flickr) The legislature’s budget analysts have proposed to phase out Medicaid coverage for pregnant women with incomes between 185% and 250% of the federal poverty line

By Ilana Kowarski Ilana@MarylandReporter.com Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown The O’Malley administration is asking state legislators to take the final steps to implement the Affordable Care Act in Maryland, and pass another bill

Photo by StudioTempura/Flickr By Ilana Kowarski Ilana@MarylandReporter.com Maryland health agencies are continuing to negotiate with federal Medicare to avoid losing up to $2 billion in federal health care dollars. After months of tense

By Ilana Kowarski Ilana@MarylandReporter.com The Maryland Attorney General’s Office has collected $12 million from perpetrators of Medicaid fraud so far this fiscal year, more than six times the amount recovered in