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Georgia, like many states, is in the process of collecting data to show the results of its Money Follows the Person (MFP) program. "To date, 305 individuals left the nursing home and returned to the community," reports Alice Hogan, PMP, program director for Waiver Services at the Georgia Department of Community Health's Division of Medicaid, and acting project director for the state's MFP program.
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The option to expand Medicaid coverage to childless adults immediately, instead of waiting until 2014, is one fiscal opportunity for states included in health care reform legislation. In April 2010, Connecticut became the first state to formally seek approval under the new federal law to cover more individuals under Medicaid.
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While state Medicaid programs have projected the expected number of individuals coming in to the program in 2014 as a result of health care reform, it's less understood who these individuals will be. Are they a relatively healthy group, or are do they have complex, costly health care needs?
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Children with private health insurance are more than six and a half times as likely to lose coverage in the three months after one or both of their parents loses a job, compared to children whose parents remain employed, according to researchers from the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati (OH) Children's Hospital Medical Center.
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Lorcaserin submitted for FDA review, FDA advisory panel votes against phentermine/topiramate, mixed vote on rosiglitazone, advisory panel votes to remove breast cancer indication from bevacizumab labeling, no increase in seizures found with DTaP vaccine, new REMS for quinine.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorders have achieved greater visibility in our society with several well-known celebrities such as Howie Mandel and David Beckham with acknowledged cases. Patients may be reluctant to share their symptoms with their primary care physician for fear of being thought crazy. Hopefully today the increased recognition with celebrities and greater media attention to the disorder will resolve this fear and allow patients to become more open with their doctors.
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WHO recommendations for antiviral use for H1N1 flu; antibiotic use trends for acute respiratory tract infection; denosumab clears FDA Expert Panel; FDA Actions.
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