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Insuring Virginia's Children: Local Outreach And Enrollment (Northern Virginia), Lisa Sprague, Judith D. Moore Aug 2000

Insuring Virginia's Children: Local Outreach And Enrollment (Northern Virginia), Lisa Sprague, Judith D. Moore

National Health Policy Forum

This one-day visit to a nearby jurisdiction was designed to allow participation by federal staff who have been unable to commit the three days required by a typical Forum site visit. Site visitors were given an overview of health care in Virginia and an introduction to the Children's Medical Income Security Program (CMSIP) as well as its proposed replacement, the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security program (FAMIS). A panel representing community organizations and providers shared their experience, touching on provider concerns, coordination of outreach efforts across counties, and assistance for clients after they are enrolled. The group visited the …


What's Happening: August 2, 2000, Maine Medical Center Aug 2000

What's Happening: August 2, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


What's Happening: July 19, 2000, Maine Medical Center Jul 2000

What's Happening: July 19, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


Outpatient Commitment In Mental Health: Is Coercion The Price Of Community Services?, Coimbra Sirica Jul 2000

Outpatient Commitment In Mental Health: Is Coercion The Price Of Community Services?, Coimbra Sirica

National Health Policy Forum

This paper reviews the debate over civil commitment to outpatient settings of people with mental illness who are considered too ill and/or too dangerous to be left on their own in their communities. The choices of two states — Maryland and New York — in dealing with this issue are reviewed. Alternative ways of drawing people into treatment and keeping them there are also discussed.


What's Happening: July 5, 2000, Maine Medical Center Jul 2000

What's Happening: July 5, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


Dr. Pettett Discovers More About Children's Mercy Founders, Gary Pettett Jul 2000

Dr. Pettett Discovers More About Children's Mercy Founders, Gary Pettett

Archives

Summarizes discoveries Dr. Pettett made when researching the lives of Katharine Berry Richardson and Alice Berry Graham, and refers to an article Dr. Pettett published in the Journal of the Jackson County Historical Society.


What's Happening: June 21, 2000, Maine Medical Center Jun 2000

What's Happening: June 21, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


Hcfa's Outpatient Pps: Finally Ready To Roll?, Karen Matherlee Jun 2000

Hcfa's Outpatient Pps: Finally Ready To Roll?, Karen Matherlee

National Health Policy Forum

This issue brief centers on hospital outpatient department services, scheduled to be on a prospective payment system (PPS) July 1, 2000, 17 years after enactment of legislation mandating PPS for hospital inpatient services. It looks at the challenges to providers and patients, including coding and other process issues, redistribution of payments, and changes in beneficiary co-payments.


What's Happening: June 7, 2000, Maine Medical Center Jun 2000

What's Happening: June 7, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

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Using Schip To Subsidize Employment-Based Coverage: How Far Can This Strategy Go?, Karl Polzer Jun 2000

Using Schip To Subsidize Employment-Based Coverage: How Far Can This Strategy Go?, Karl Polzer

National Health Policy Forum

This background paper examines and analyzes early efforts by states to subsidize employment-based health insurance under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which offers states a more generous funding rate than under Medicaid. As the Health Care Financing Administration prepares to issue regulations governing SCHIP, the paper summarizes complaints by state officials that federal rules governing how job-based coverage might be subsidized under the program are overly complex and rigid. After interviewing officials at the federal level and in six states as well as a variety of researchers and policy experts, the author considered whether and to what extent …


Pharmaceutical Marketplace Dynamics, Robin J. Strongin May 2000

Pharmaceutical Marketplace Dynamics, Robin J. Strongin

National Health Policy Forum

This issue brief provides a profile of the pharmaceutical industry and explores topics such as competition, generics, intellectual property, research and development, pricing, and distribution. It also discusses government programs such as the Department of Veterans' Affairs federal supply schedule and Medicaid rebates.


What's Happening: May 24, 2000, Maine Medical Center May 2000

What's Happening: May 24, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


What's Happening: May 10, 2000, Maine Medical Center May 2000

What's Happening: May 10, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

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What's Happening: April 26, 2000, Maine Medical Center Apr 2000

What's Happening: April 26, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


Reinventing Medicaid: Hoosier Healthwise And Children's Health Insurance In Indiana, Judith D. Moore, Lisa Sprague Apr 2000

Reinventing Medicaid: Hoosier Healthwise And Children's Health Insurance In Indiana, Judith D. Moore, Lisa Sprague

National Health Policy Forum

This site visit explored the factors that have made Indiana so successful in enrolling children in its Medicaid and SCHIP plans under the brand name Hoosier Healthwise. Site visitors met with legislators and state officials to gain understanding of the genesis and development of Hoosier Healthwise and its aggressive outreach component. A panel of representatives from partner organizations engaged in enrolling children provided further insight into this process. The site visit participants traveled to observe enrollment and operations in both urban (Marion) and rural (Clay) county offices. They also met with health care executives at hospitals, clinics, and neighborhood health …


Dispelling The Myths And Stigma Of Mental Illness: The Surgeon General's Report On Mental Health, Richard Hegner Apr 2000

Dispelling The Myths And Stigma Of Mental Illness: The Surgeon General's Report On Mental Health, Richard Hegner

National Health Policy Forum

This paper summarizes the key findings of "Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General," which was released on December 13, 1999, by U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher. Topics include the significance of mental illness, the effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment, the widespread lack of treatment, access problems and their causes, the significance of stigma, and the prevention of mental illness.


What's Happening: April 12, 2000, Maine Medical Center Apr 2000

What's Happening: April 12, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

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Site Visit To Seattle — University Of Washington Academic Medical Center, Karen Matherlee Apr 2000

Site Visit To Seattle — University Of Washington Academic Medical Center, Karen Matherlee

National Health Policy Forum

The event was part of a series of three site visits leading to an April 27–28, 2000, conference in Annapolis, Maryland, on hospital-based health care systems in transition after enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) and the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA). The site visit focused on the challenges the University of Washington (UW) faces in carrying out its three missions of delivery of health services (with emphasis on the safety net), health professions education, and health science and clinical research. It probed the effects of the BBA on these missions …


Applying Science To Public Policy: The Context Of The Surgeon General's Report On Mental Health, Richard Hegner Apr 2000

Applying Science To Public Policy: The Context Of The Surgeon General's Report On Mental Health, Richard Hegner

National Health Policy Forum

Intended to provide public policy context for the December 1999 Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, this background paper discusses the historic skepticism about the efficacy of treatment of mental illness in this country, insurance practices that have discriminated against mental illness and the reasons for them, the disproportionate share of mental health funding provided by government sources such as Medicaid and state general revenues, the role of state and local public government as providers of catastrophic coverage for mental illness, the cascading cost-shifting game in mental health finance, obstacles to needed treatment (including popular attitudes toward mental illness), the …


What's Happening: March 29, 2000, Maine Medical Center Mar 2000

What's Happening: March 29, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


Site Visit To Detroit — Henry Ford Health System, Lisa Sprague Mar 2000

Site Visit To Detroit — Henry Ford Health System, Lisa Sprague

National Health Policy Forum

This event was one in a series of three site visits leading to an April 27–28, 2000, conference in Annapolis, Maryland, on hospital-based health care systems in transition after the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) and the Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA). The site visit explored the responses of a large integrated system, the Henry Ford Health System, to the BBA and how the BBA has interacted with other changes in the system's local market and state Medicaid program. Panel presentations highlighted financing and information systems, the integration of diversified services, …


Site Visit To Richmond And Hampton Roads — Bon Secours Health System, Inc., Nora Super Mar 2000

Site Visit To Richmond And Hampton Roads — Bon Secours Health System, Inc., Nora Super

National Health Policy Forum

The first in a series of three site visits leading to an April 27–28, 2000, conference in Annapolis, Maryland, on hospital-based health care systems in transition after the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) and the Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA). The site visit was designed to better understand how changing payment incentives — particularly the move to prospective payment systems for postacute services — has affected the ability to implement a continuum of care across delivery sites. It examined the Bon Secours Health System's operations in Virginia, which include four hospitals …


What's Happening: March 15, 2000, Maine Medical Center Mar 2000

What's Happening: March 15, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


Improving Quality And Preventing Error In Medical Practice, Lisa Sprague Mar 2000

Improving Quality And Preventing Error In Medical Practice, Lisa Sprague

National Health Policy Forum

Drawing on the Institute of Medicine's report To Err Is Human, this issue brief looks at quality-improvement and error-reduction efforts at the institutional, regional, and state levels and analyzes the roles of government and the private sector in bringing such efforts into national focus. Questions considered include whether error reporting should be mandatory or voluntary, who should perform error analysis, and the role of the individual in an institutional accountability model.


What's Happening: March 1, 2000, Maine Medical Center Mar 2000

What's Happening: March 1, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


Physician Connectivity: Electronic Prescribing, Robin J. Strongin Feb 2000

Physician Connectivity: Electronic Prescribing, Robin J. Strongin

National Health Policy Forum

This issue brief focuses on physician connectivity — the electronic linking of physicians with online resources such as clinical databases and sophisticated formulary systems. As physician connectivity increasingly allows physicians to prescribe online via a handheld computer complete with formulary information as well as patient data and drug information, this issue brief examines the issues raised by this technological advance within the broader context of online prescribing.


What's Happening: February 16, 2000, Maine Medical Center Feb 2000

What's Happening: February 16, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


What's Happening: February 2, 2000, Maine Medical Center Feb 2000

What's Happening: February 2, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


What's Happening: January 19, 2000, Maine Medical Center Jan 2000

What's Happening: January 19, 2000, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.


Site Visit To Arizona — Managed Medicaid: Arizona's Ahcccs Experience, Nora Super, Lisa Sprague, Judith D. Moore Jan 2000

Site Visit To Arizona — Managed Medicaid: Arizona's Ahcccs Experience, Nora Super, Lisa Sprague, Judith D. Moore

National Health Policy Forum

This site visit featured a review of a unique Medicaid managed care system, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), which has operated as a research and demonstration waiver since its inception in 1982. Site visitors heard from speakers who provided historical and background information, a discussion of competitive bidding, contracting and performance management, and insights into the delivery of behavioral health under the mandatory AHCCCS program. The group also heard discussions about services to the uninsured and Arizona's safety net providers. Other topics covered during the visit included the state's KidsCare program under the State Child Health Insurance …