Medicare needs fixing now, Leavitt tells seniors (Deseret Morning News)
The federal government is on the verge of breaking one of its oldest promises to its citizens health care for the elderly U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt told a conference of seniors during a Wednesday visit to Salt Lake.

CQ's Carey discusses Medicare legislation, Medicaid regulations, bipartisan health care summit (News-Medical-Net)
Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, discusses Senate Democrats' plans to craft legislation that would stop a scheduled reduction in Medicare physician payments; a provision in a supplemental war spending bill that would block for one year new Medicaid regulations; and a bicameral, bipartisan health policy summit set for June in this week's "Health on the Hill from ...

CMS Approves Pennsylvania Medicaid Waiver Program To Help Residents With Autism (Medical News Today)
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Thursday announced that CMS earlier this month granted approval of a waiver program that allows the state to allocate part of its federal Medicaid funds toward services for adult residents with autism, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports.