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- At Clinic Tales and Health Concerns of Hispanics
- Magellan Autism Connections Launches to Support Health Care …
- ADA President Urges Congress to Shore Up IHS Dental Care
At Clinic Tales and Health Concerns of Hispanics
New York Times
”The hospital’s Spanish Somali and Russian clinics all lose money because many insurers will not cover the cost of interpreters and because appointments take longer with everything being said twice said Dr. Craig Garrett who started the Russian clinic and oversees all three. Even with Hennepin’s open-door policy hospital officials say getting health care is increasingly difficult for many illegal immigrants. Previously allowed to use.
Magellan Autism Connections Launches to Support Health Care …
FXBusiness
Mar 26 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) —-With the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) growing steadily over the past two decades and cost of care exceeding $35 billion a year Magellan Health Services an industry leader in behavioral health care management has launched Magellan Autism Connections(SM) a program to ensure that individuals and families living with these disorders receive effective and appropriate care. Today one out of every 150 children who are eight-years-old and born in the United States is diagnosed with a disorder along the autism spectrum. In response to this growing trend a majority of states have passed or proposed legislation requiring health insurers to cover ASD. Covered treatments for autism spectrum disorder often include physical speech occupational therapy and behavioral interventions including Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy. Legislation mandates coverage thresholds for treatments which may include ABA from about $6000 to $50000 per child per year. “Magellan is keenly aware of the clinical issues associated with an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis as well as the economic demands on families” said Rose Maljanian R.
ADA President Urges Congress to Shore Up IHS Dental Care
FXBusiness
Findley said that nearly 65 percent of the agency’s dental specialists are eligible for retirement this year. He asked the subcommittee to increase the program by $1 million to train new specialists and to ensure that future budgets include that funding. Dentists who have completed residencies in pediatric dentistry oral surgery and other dental areas provide badly needed advanced oral health care. According to a 2007 IHS audit only 36 percent of diabetes patients had at least one dental visit within the past year. Diabetics with severe periodontal disease have a more difficult time controlling their blood sugar than diabetics without periodontal disease. The ADA president also requested a “stronger role” for the director of the IHS Division of ral Health and that funds be specifically allocated to the director of the IHS headquarters Division of ral Health to ensure they are used exclusively for dental residencies.
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