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St. Louis Public Radio |
Missouri to start offering asthma home assessments to children on Medicaid
St. Louis Public Radio It takes John Kraemer about two hours to finish an asthma home assessment. He interviews the family, checks each room for allergens and records air quality data with a particulate counter. By identifying potential triggers for a patient's asthma in … |
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KBIA |
Missouri Medicaid to Support Asthma Care at Home
KBIA Webb, an Environmental Health Coordinator at Children's Mercy Hospital, is visiting the home of a child with asthma to help identify environmental factors that could be triggering the child's condition, like the mold she just found growing on the … |
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HIT Consultant |
Medicaid Health Plan Offers Personalized Medication Adherence Platform for …
HIT Consultant AmeriHealth D.C., the largest Medicaid managed care organization in the District announced it will offer its members a personalized digital mobile platform aimed at improving medication adherence for asthma patients. The platform called HealthNHandSM … |
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Boston Children's Hospital asthma initiative receives Medicaid endorsement
Boston Business Journal (blog) But a hospital initiative to provide some untraditional care to children with repeat asthma problems has helped significantly cut down on repeat ER visits. Now the state is endorsing the model through a pilot program that will offer bundled payments … |
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Annual Medicaid costs for pediatric asthma-related ED visits topped $270 million
Healio State Medicaid programs spent an estimated $272 million on pediatric asthma-related ED visits in 2010, according to recent CDC data. The researchers estimated state-based costs for asthma-related ED visits among children aged younger than 18 years, … |
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Lack of asthma medication compliance seen in CHIP and Medicaid patients
ModernMedicine Sixty-three percent of fee-for-service Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) child beneficiaries had discontinued their asthma medication after 90 days from the start of their first prescription, according to new research from the … |
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NY1 |
State Comptroller Reports Medicaid Costs Related to Asthma on the Rise
NY1 That's a 26 percent increase over the past five years. While asthma-related death rates and hospitalization rates have dropped over the past decade, the cost of treatment continues to go up because the number of New Yorkers diagnosed with asthma is rising. |
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Asthma costly for NY Medicaid system, new report says
Oneida Dispatch Asthma costly for NY Medicaid system, new report says. Asthma educator Kim Reiners, right, a registered nurse, administers a breathing treatment to Kymbrea Valrey, 12, who has chronic asthma, at Cardon Children's Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz. AP file. |
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Asthma costly for NY Medicaid system, new report says
Kingston Daily Freeman Asthma costly for NY Medicaid system, new report says. Asthma educator Kim Reiners, right, a registered nurse, administers a breathing treatment to Kymbrea Valrey, 12, who has chronic asthma, at Cardon Children's Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz. AP file. |
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Medicaid Changes Mean More Resources for Children with Asthma in Los …
Bell Gardens Sun This means asthma educators and other professionals whose services are recommended by a doctor or nurse practitioner will be reimbursed. About seven million children in the United States live with asthma, costing the U.S. health care system about $56 … |
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