Michigan Family Impact Seminar #9
Supporting Children and Families While Controlling Medicaid Costs
February 1, 2005
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Featured Speakers
Vernon Smith, Principal, Health Management Associates
A National Challenge: How States Are Trying to Control Medicaid Costs (And Why It’s So Hard)
Lynn Friss Feinberg, Deputy Director, National Center on Caregiving
Family Caregivers: The Backbone of Long Term Care
Nigel Paneth, Associate Dean for Research at the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
Preventing Childhood Obesity: Controlling Medicaid Costs
Additional Chapters/Materials
Michigan Programs to Support Family Caregivers, by Laura Bates
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