Alabama employees who are overweight will need to lose weight, or else they will have to pay more for already less affordable health insurance coverage because of excess weight. This new Alabama health insurance law is introduced by State Employees’ Insurance Board and will take effect in January 2011.
All working Alabama adults will be required [...]
Alabama lawmakers held a joint legislativemeeting on Wednesday to discuss next year’s Medicaid budget, but the stateMedicaid commissioner said the amount of an expected reduction in federalfunding remains unknown, the Mobile Press-Register reports. The $4.2 billion programis mostly funded by the federal government, but the state provided $470 millionthis year, more than a quarter of [...]
An Alabama state court jury on Tuesday found pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis guilty of defrauding the state Medicaid program by charging artificially high prices for medications and ordered the two companies to pay more than $114 million in restitution, the AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. GSK was ordered to pay the state $80.8 million and [...]