2/20/13 – We are very pleased to have Erica Rothschild, Community Organizer at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, appear as a guest blogger today. This is part 1 of 2 in Rothschild’s efforts to show how taking prescribing authority away from doctors has a devastating impact on patients.
2/15/13 – In this week’s summary, you’ll find details on protests by various health advocacy organizations regarding health care spending budget cuts, a study showing that increasing prescription drug access saves on other medical costs, a federal investigation in NY’s Medicaid spending, and more!
2/11/13 – A colleague recently referred me to a program that provides leadership training for people with developmental disabilities, parents and family members.
2/8/13 – In this week’s summary, you’ll find details about an event at the Capitol where legislators, advocates, physicians and patients called for prescriber prevails to be restored to the NYS Budget, the growing trend of hospital staff making home visits in efforts to cut down on readmissions, a federal grant for New York to implement it’s Health Care Exchange, and more!
2/1/13 – In this week’s summary, you’ll find details on the Medicaid budget hearing, measures NYS is taking to prevent sepsis in hospitals, a new resource for consumers on how to use new health exchanges, new guidelines in managing type 2 diabetes in children, and more!
1/25/13 – In this week’s summary, you’ll find details of Gov. Cuomo’s executive budget proposal, including a provision that will repeal “prescriber prevails” for atypical antipsychotics, new legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act, and more!
1/23/13 – Last year, patient and physician advocacy groups fought hard to restore patient protections to the New York Medicaid budget. They were successful in achieving the restoration of “prescriber prevails” – allowing the physician or provider to decide what medicine a patient needs – for atypical antipsychotics.
1/18/13 – In advance of Gov. Cuomo’s 2013-2014 Budget Address scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 22, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) released two memos regarding prescription drug access issues that must be addressed in this year’s budget negotiations.
1/18/13 – In this week’s summary, you’ll find info on the jump in flu cases this year, the overhaul in NYS’s Certificate of Need process, federal regulations regarding Medicaid expansion under the ACA, and more!
1/15/13 – Gary Allen is running from Maine to Washington, DC in 14 days to raise funds for cancer research, veterans and victims of the Newtown, Conn. tragedy.