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The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has been kept alive with President Bush's signature on legislation to continue funding through March 2009, but the program will not expand the way congressional Democrats had hoped.
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While states and local governments have made significant progress in critical areas of the nation's emergency health preparedness effort, critical areas still require attention and sustained funding, according to the fifth annual report from Trust for America's Health (TFAH).
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Spurred by complaints from pharmacist and drug store associations, some members of Congress are backing legislation to fix what they say is a flawed Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicaid pharmacy reimbursement rule for generic drugs.
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Massachusetts' Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, which oversees the Commonwealth Care insurance portion of the state's comprehensive health reform plan, is making significant program changes in an effort to hold down costs to taxpayers.
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An analysis of Washington State's disease management efforts shows a return-on-investment of $3 for every $1 spent on the program and a net savings of more than $13.3 million during the program's final year.
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This column features selected short items about state health care policy.
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Call centers will be the first line of defense for the hospitals they serve if a pandemic — such as an outbreak of avian flu — should hit the United States, say a variety of health care professionals working to prepare for such an eventuality.
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Two new auditing processes and a script for "introducing" discharge planners to their patients are the latest innovations at Stevens Hospital in Edmunds, WA, part of its response to the revised "Important Message from Medicare" (IM).
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At California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles "we never want [staff] to say, 'We do not have any beds,'" says Elizabeth Oliver, director for access care for the facility, which is part of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW).
