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When a program funded through state-only dollars is targeted for reduction or elimination, there is a possibility that it can be funded through Medicaid instead, notes Patricia MacTaggart, a lead research scientist and lecturer in the Health Policy Department at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
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For decades, a California long-term care program provided case management for about 12,000 elderly Medicaid clients who qualify for placement in a nursing facility but want to remain in the community, but it is now faced with total elimination.
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After the Multipurpose Senior Service Program (MSSP) was targeted for elimination in January 2011, the program's staff put together their own analysis to prove the cost savings achieved by the program, reports Eileen M. Koons, MSW, ACSW, director of Huntington Senior Care Network.
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Medicaid programs underfunded nursing facility care by $5.6 billion in 2010, paying $7.17 per hour per patient, less than the nation's current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, according to an analysis from the American Health Care Association in Washington, DC.
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The latest iteration of the CDC guidelines on the treatment of STDs was finally published at the end of 2010 after finishing a process that began in 2008.
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A group of investigators in France undertook an exhaustive review of bedbugs and found evidence of them in the tombs of Egypt 3,500 years ago.
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Even HIV-infected individuals who have the greatest challenges in adhering to their antiretroviral therapy (ART) can achieve high adherence on a regimen of one pill taken daily, research shows.
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Two hundred patients from 6 months to 18 years of age with uncomplicated purulent SSTIs not requiring hospitalization were enrolled from 2006 through 2009.
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Two separate, cross-sectional studies involving 6,843 and 9,668 children 6-13 years of age in South Germany randomly compared children living on farms with reference groups for the prevalence of asthma relative to the exposure to and diversity of indoor microorganisms.
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Ten years after their original publication, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated their recommendations for the prevention of norovirus infection and the management of outbreaks due to this non-enveloped, single-stranded RNA member of the Calciviridae family.
