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State’s Medicaid deficit shrinks by more than half

Posted: February 1, 2013 at 12:17 a.m.

Arkansas’ Medicaid projected deficit has been cut by more than half to $61 million, largely because of the effects of the state’s payment overhaul, state Department of Human Services officials said Thursday.

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