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This issue might be subtitled "What will they think of next?" Getting high does not always require the purchase of illegal drugs, and all substances that alter sensorium, such as nutmeg, cannot be regulated. However, the emergency physician must remain aware of the latest fads of drug abuse, and should be able to recognize the symptoms they cause.
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Screening for lung cancer by means of chest X-ray (CXR) does not reduce mortality, even with the addition of sputum cytology.
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The idea of using a fee and incentive structure to motivate consumer behavior change, as Arizona is attempting to do with a proposed $50 fee on smokers and obese Medicaid clients, is certainly appealing, says Donna Friedsam, MPH, health policy programs director at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in Madison.
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As a result of the Indiana legislature voting to cut off $3 million in federal money from Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion services, the state's Planned Parenthood clinics stopped treating Medicaid patients, but a June 24 federal district court ruling blocked provisions of the state law.
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Elders and adults with severe disabilities have mostly remained under traditional fee-for-service Medicaid plans, but this is now changing, according to Thomas L. Johnson, BA, JD, president and CEO of Medicaid Health Plans of America, a Washington, DC-based trade association representing Medicaid health plans.
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The state of Arizona has proposed a $50 annual fee on childless adults in Medicaid who are obese or smokers.