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Families were not putting into practice strategies for weight loss given by clinicians at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison to help overweight teens.
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As federal funds are beginning to flow to state Medicaid programs for Health Information Technology (HIT) planning, there is an unprecedented opportunity for care system transformation. While it's not a "given" that all states will apply for the funding, they are exploring a variety of options to maximize their access.
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Even during the recession, Washington state has maintained its multifaceted approach to outreach.
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Nonpayment policies for preventable adverse events are valuable to motivate quality improvement efforts, and payment should not be expected for a bad outcome that is unnecessary or avoidable. These are two things about which most providers, payers, and the public can agree.
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A Medicaid provider may have spent a great deal of time and money to adopt electronic health record (EHR) technology, but can he or she demonstrate that this tool meets the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) criteria for "meaningful use"? If not, that provider won't qualify for federal incentives for EHR, enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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In sharp contrast to adults, the number of uninsured children declined by 800,000 during the first 12 months of the recession, from December 2007 through December 2008, according to a December 2009 report from the Washington, DC-based Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, "Protecting Children During the Recession: Spotlight on State Health Coverage Efforts." Outreach efforts by state Medicaid programs are a big reason why.
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A knock-in mouse model of a specific variant of familial hemiplegic migraine links the clinical manifestations of this rare migraine symptom with the triggering and propagation of cortical spreading depression and other unique characteristics of migraine.
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