Legislators, Providers Eye Medicaid Changes / While Lawmakers Seek to Curb Spending, Others Say More Must Be Done for (RedNova)
By TAMMIE SMIH Legislators here and in Washington want to curb Medicaid spending and growth.

Advocates say Medicaid cuts force group home residents out (WIBW-TV Topeka)
Hearings were scheduled Monday at the Kansas Statehouse to discuss ways to help disabled children who child welfare advocates say are being forced out of privately run group homes.

New Study: Louisiana Takes 9th Biggest Nationwide Medicaid Funding Hit from Bush Administration's Proposed Federal (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)
A new analysis of President George W. Bush's proposed FY 2007 federal budget made public by BDO Seidman and the American Health Care Association (AHCA) in Washington, D.C. estimates Louisiana's Medicaid-funded nursing home care would be cut by $70.2 million unless modified, representing the ninth highest reduction of all states analyzed. On a per patient, per day basis, the proposed federal