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Kaiser Family Foundation Releases 50-State Survey of Medicaid and CHIP Programs

By: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and Uninsured

Source: Kaiser Family Foundation

Date: January 18, 2012

findings appear in the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured report, "Performing Under Pressure: Annual Findings of a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, And Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP, 2011-2012,” the product of a comprehensive annual survey conducted with the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Related reports examine successful efforts to cover children in Alabama, Iowa, Massachusetts and Oregon, and potential performance measures for states’ eligibility and enrollment systems under health reform.

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Doctors do surgery on DOH’s drug-dealing bill

By: Carol Gentry

Source: Florida Health News

Date: January 18, 2012

The Health & Human Services Quality Subcommittee passed a totally rewritten version of HB 1143 -- a compromise that the sponsor, Rep. Fred Costello, said his staff worked out between the Florida Medical Association and Department of Health. The rewritten bill would allow the Surgeon General to issue an emergency order restricting a practitioner from prescribing controlled drugs -- potentially addictive and often abused -- while the case is pending.

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Dental Tourism: How To Be Prepared

By: Farah Dosani

Source: Healthystate.org

Date: January 12, 2012

Saving 50% or more on a crown or root canal can be attractive, but it’s hard to gauge the quality and safety of these clinics thousands of miles away. Unlike medical tourism, no international inspection body exists specifically for dental care.

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Spinal Manipulation, Home Exercise May Ease Neck Pain

Source: Health Day News

Date: January 3, 2012

MONDAY, Jan. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Spinal manipulation and home exercise are more effective at relieving neck pain in the long term than medications, according to new research. People undergoing spinal manipulation therapy for neck pain also reported greater satisfaction than people receiving medication or doing home exercises. "We found that there are some viable treatment options for neck pain," said Gert Bronfort, vice president of research at the Wolfe-Harris Center for Clinical Studies at Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, Minn.

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Florida E-Prescribing Report Released

Date: December 3, 2011

The 2010 Florida Electronic Prescribing Report provides a general assessment of the status of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) in Florida in 2010. It presents a review of Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency) activities to promote e-prescribing; highlights of state, national, public, and private e-prescribing initiatives; Florida e-prescribing metrics; and action steps to promote adoption of e-prescribing coordinated with other Agency health information technology initiatives. This report is mandated in Section 408.0611, Florida Statutes, which directs the Agency to disseminate information on e-prescribing and promote its adoption.

Health Care Reform In The USA - A Summary of the Law

Source: Kaiser Family Foundation

Date: November 17, 2011

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed comprehensive health reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law. The following summary of the law, and changes made to the law by subsequent legislation, focuses on provisions to expand coverage, control health care costs, and improve health care delivery system. The Kaiser Family Foundation has compiled an easy to understand summary of just what is in the law.......

Finding Health Insurance You Can Afford

Date: November 17, 2011

Here is a handy tool to help you find the health insurance best suited to your needs, whether it's private insurance for individuals, families, and small businesses, or public programs that may work for you. It was created to help consumers under the health insurance reform law, the Affordable Care Act.

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Date: November 1, 2011

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Kids Still Getting Too Many Antibiotics

By: Crystal Phend, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

Source: Med Page Today

Date: October 10, 2011

Half of antibiotics given to children are broad-spectrum drugs, often with inappropriate indications, a national ambulatory care study found Asthma, viral pneumonia, and other respiratory conditions for which antibiotics are not typically indicated accounted for 30% of broad-spectrum antibiotic use, Adam L. Hersh, MD, PhD, of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and colleagues reported.