We have been very strategic about designing our policy, listening to what Missourians want, studying past efforts, learning from past mistakes, said ACE Vice President Erin Brower
To determine whether these providers performed the procedures for which they may have received Proposition 56 supplemental payments, we then selected 149 encounter records that matched the selections data elements, such as the type of procedure, date of service, managed care plan, and provider.Because the quarterly reports do not have sufficient detail to definitively match them to the services described in the encounter data, we could not use them to confirm that providers received Proposition 56 supplemental payments for the services we selected from the encounter data
Cigarette smoke is a complex mixture of thousands of compounds, some of which can be seriously harmful to human health
A large tax increase will come with unintended consequences including large-scale tax evasion that will undermine any positive health outcomes the laws sponsors hopes to achieve
Several tobacco companies saw their stock slip in early-morning trading Monday after news of Walmart's decision