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For 50 years, women have had a reliable form of birth control in the form of the combined oral contraceptive pill. What has emerged in the same time period for men?
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Heads up for reproductive health and family planning clinics in California and Nevada: The Female Health Co.'s free FC2 Female Condom Experience Program is headed your way. Deadline for applications from clinics in the two states is Aug. 31, 2010, says Rebecca Kizaric, training manager for the Chicago-based company.
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Add current data to your clinical knowledge base: the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued updated recommendations for routine and catch-up vaccination of females with the bivalent or quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccines (HPV2, HPV4), as well as published its policy statement and summarized background data on use of the HPV4 vaccine in males.
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Providing seamless enrollment procedures is still a work in progress for state Medicaid programs under the current eligibility system, but doing so under health care reform is a health information technology (HIT) challenge of epic proportions.
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With Medicaid enrollment increases of 3,000 a month showing no signs of slowing, having already made virtually all possible cuts to the program, and facing a projected $3 billion shortfall in the state, Charles Duarte, administrator for Nevada's Division of Health Care Financing and Policy, describes the process of planning for an estimated 150,000 more people coming onto the program as one of "cognitive fiscal dissonance."
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Every year, Colorado Medicaid spends $20 million on hospital readmissions that occur within 30 days. This fact was brought to light as a result of a comprehensive data analysis done a year ago. It is one of the reasons that readmissions have become a key priority for the program.
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The Medicaid and Medicare populations call for two very different strategies for preventing hospital readmissions, according to Michael Birnbaum, director of policy at United Hospital Fund's Medicaid Institute in New York City.
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Over half of nursing facility residents are dual-eligibles. This means they must contend with a system of care that often is not well-coordinated or efficient.
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California's Medi-Cal Eligibility System (MEDS) will need to be completely replaced to accommodate the changes necessary to implement health care reform, according to Vivian Auble, a senior consultant at Health Management Associates in Sacramento and former chief of California's Medi-Cal eligibility division. This could cost up to $250 million, not including costs to establish and operate the state insurance exchange, or to develop a new application and enrollment portal.
