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Saturday, November 21, 2009

State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments - United States, 2007.

4 Nov 2009 The prevalence of tobacco use among adults in the United States has been reduced by half since the 1960s. Despite this progress, low-income populations, such as Medicaid enrollees, continue to smoke at substantially higher rates than the general ... Read more...

Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Medical Home is an evolving concept of patient-centered care yet little information is available on its effect on health care expenditures for children. OBJECTIVES: To quantify differences in patterns of care and costs to the North ... Read more...

Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids among Medicaid enrollees - Washington, 2004-2007.

28 Oct 2009 During 1999-2006, the number of poisoning deaths in the United States nearly doubled, from approximately 20,000 to 37,000, largely because of overdose deaths involving prescription opioid painkillers. This increase coincided with a nearly fourfold ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Medicaid'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments - United States, 2007. 4 Nov 2009
• Litigation amidst reform--the Boston Medical Center case. 3 Nov 2009
• Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma. 30 Oct 2009
• Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids among Medicaid enrollees - Washington, 2004-2007. 28 Oct 2009
• Health care reform in perspective. 13 Oct 2009
• How health care reform can benefit children and adolescents. 5 Oct 2009
• A critique of the changes in Hawai'i's Medicaid system. 29 Sep 2009
• Financing American Indian health care: impacts and options for improving access and quality. 29 Sep 2009
• The burden of rotavirus hospitalizations among Medicaid and non-Medicaid children younger than 5 years old. 29 Sep 2009
• Compliance with multiple-dose vaccine schedules among older children, adolescents, and adults: results from a vaccine safety datalink study. 29 Sep 2009
• Health care utilization and expenditures for privately and publicly insured children with sickle cell disease in the United States. 29 Sep 2009
• Does vascular surgery cost too much? 24 Sep 2009
• Baucus's bill and the long road to reform. 21 Sep 2009
• IPPS update eliminates proposed reimbursement cuts. 13 Sep 2009
• Whistle-blower tactic. Lawsuits shouldn't use public sources: groups. 12 Sep 2009
• Adding it all up. Some caution uninsured figure could be too low. 12 Sep 2009
• A four-system comparison of patients with chronic illness: the Military Health System, Veterans Health Administration, Medicaid, and commercial plans. 30 Aug 2009
• AHA environmental scan 2010. 30 Aug 2009
• The all-school health & wellness advocate: School nurses establish innovative programs to benefit greater school community. 30 Aug 2009
• Family planning provider referral, facilitation behavior, and patient follow-up for abnormal Pap smears. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Medicaid'

Definition: Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XIX, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, administered by the states, that provides health care benefits to indigent and medically indigent persons.

Descriptor UI: D008484

Alternative terms: Medicaid; Medical Assistance, Title 19; Dental Medicaid Program; Medicaid Program, Dental; Medicaid Programs, Dental; Dental Medicaid Programs; Program, Dental Medicaid; Programs, Dental Medicaid;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.219.521.346.506.564.655;

Online Note: use MEDICAID to search MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, TITLE 19 1971-90; use MEDICAL ASSISTANCE to search DENTAL MEDICAID PROGRAM 1969-73

History Note: 91; was MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, TITLE 19 1971-90; MEDICAID was see MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, TITLE 19 1975-90, was see under MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 1969-70; DENTAL MEDICAID PROGRAM was see under MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, TITLE 19 1979-85, was DENTICAID see under MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, TITLE 19 1974-78, was DENTICAID see under MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 1969-73

Technical Notes: specify geog; Public Law 89-97