Will future demand and need for long-term care services by aging Americans vastly outstrip supply? Possibly not in Wisconsin and numerous other states.

On Monday, the Justice Department accused Wyeth, one of the nation’s biggest drugmakers, of cheating Medicaid programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars by overcharging for Protonix, a stomach acid drug.

Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it is one of 16 firms selected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide information technology (IT) services for its Enterprise Systems Development program. The total ceiling value of the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for all 16 firms, which has a one-year base period and nine one-year options, is $4 billion.

Individuals with advanced-stage laryngeal cancer at diagnosis were more likely to be uninsured or covered by Medicaid than to have private insurance, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

EDS has signed a $100.8 million, 73-month contract with the state of Ohio to design, develop and implement a new-generation Medicaid Information Technology System (MITS).

Many health care purchasers are trying to link health care spending to quality and efficiency through pay-for-performance (P4P) programs. This report examines the current and planned P4P activities of state Medicaid programs, based on a survey and follow-up interviews with state Medicaid directors and their staffs as well as review of related documents.