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If a judge agrees, a hearing will be scheduled within 10 days of the request and a decision rendered within five days after all evidence has been submitted, Weston says.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(There is an exception. \u003ca href=\"https://www.hpsm.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Health Plan of San Mateo\u003c/a>, a COHS plan, has voluntarily agreed to be regulated by the Department of Managed Health Care, so its enrollees can request an IMR.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fallstead has requested two state fair hearings in the past two years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ben Fallstead, 28, was diagnosed several years ago with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/babesiosis/gen_info/faqs.html\" target=\"_blank\">babesiosis\u003c/a>, a tick-borne disease that left him exhausted, wracked with fevers and chronic joint pain and unable to hold a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After going through several antibiotics, his specialist prescribed one that brought him some relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just getting to the point where I felt semi-normal,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early last year, his managed care Medi-Cal plan told him it would not refill the medication, saying that it doesn’t support the long-term use of antibiotics, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the Lake County man has been fighting his plan’s decision, waiting months for judges who aren’t medical experts to determine his medical fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fallstead is among roughly 2 million Medi-Cal recipients who must use a different medical appeals process than most others on Medi-Cal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Services/medi-cal/pages/whatismedi-cal.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Medi-Cal \u003c/a>is the state’s version of the federal Medicaid program that provides health insurance to low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Californians live in 22 counties, from Orange County to the Central Coast and rural Northern California. Unlike about 8 million other Medi-Cal enrollees in managed care, most of them can’t appeal their case to an independent physician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates, patients and some lawmakers say this has delayed critical treatments and is simply unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be uniformity in the protections of all Medi-Cal recipients,” says state Sen. Bill Monning, a Democrat whose district covers three affected counties: Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Luis Obispo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, I’ll explain this inconsistency and offer advice to those people it affects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Q: I live in Orange County and have Medi-Cal. I’m in the middle of cancer treatment but my health plan is making me get reapproved before I can continue. What are my options? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: If your medical plan makes a decision that you disagree with, such as not covering the medication or therapy your doctor has ordered, you usually start by appealing with the plan itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the plan won’t budge, you move to the second level of appeals. This is where the difference lies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of managed care Medi-Cal recipients are in plans regulated by the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Managed Health Care\u003c/a>. They have access to something called an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/FileaComplaint/IndependentMedicalReview(IMR).aspx#.VjpX0mSrTw4\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Medical Review \u003c/a>(IMR), which allows them to appeal their plan’s decision to an independent physician (or physicians) who are experts in the conditions being reviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If your health issue is urgent, you can request an expedited IMR to be conducted within a week.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If it is not urgent, it is usually decided within 30 days.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But Orange County managed care Medi-Cal recipients receive coverage through a plan called a \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthconsumer.org/092914-ManagedCareinCaliforniaSeries-3-COHSMediCalPlans.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">County Organized Health System \u003c/a>(COHS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are six COHS plans, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloptima.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CalOptima\u003c/a> in Orange County and \u003ca href=\"http://www.partnershiphp.org/Pages/PHC.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Partnership HealthPlan\u003c/a>, which covers 14 Northern California counties. If you’re in one of these counties, your local COHS plan is the only Medi-Cal plan available to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These publicly operated plans were exempted from certain requirements more than 30 years ago when they were much smaller entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means you don’t have access to an IMR for your second layer of appeals. You must request a state fair hearing and plead your case before an administrative law judge who usually is not a medical expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The cases must be decided within 90 days after the Medi-Cal recipient requests a hearing, says Michael Weston, spokesman for the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Social Services\u003c/a>, which conducts the hearings.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An enrollee whose health is in danger from delay may request an expedited hearing. If a judge agrees, a hearing will be scheduled within 10 days of the request and a decision rendered within five days after all evidence has been submitted, Weston says.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(There is an exception. \u003ca href=\"https://www.hpsm.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Health Plan of San Mateo\u003c/a>, a COHS plan, has voluntarily agreed to be regulated by the Department of Managed Health Care, so its enrollees can request an IMR.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fallstead has requested two state fair hearings in the past two years. Both took longer than 90 days to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like they’re denying me medication,” he says. “It feels like I’m not a person to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liza Thantranon,\u003ca href=\"http://lsnc.info/\" target=\"_blank\"> Legal Services of Northern California\u003c/a>’s managing attorney for health, says she deals with this problem every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her clients who have access to IMRs usually are able to resolve their cases within a month, she says. However, the majority of her COHS clients who request state fair hearings wait more than 90 days for a decision, some as long as six to eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle, you have administrative law judges trying to evaluate which doctor is right,” Thantranon says. “They don’t know what the science is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weston counters that the judges are trained to make “factual findings based on evidence, including the medical evidence provided by the plan and the doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plans say they’re not against regulation, but over-regulation. They’re already regulated twice, by the federal and state governments, says Bob Freeman, CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cencalhealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CenCal Health\u003c/a>, the COHS plan that covers about 165,000 Medi-Cal enrollees in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding this additional layer of regulation would require them to pay about $4 million collectively in fees each year to the Department of Managed Health Care, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where’s the value to the taxpayer in that?” Freeman asks. “That money could go somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those of you who are in a COHS plan, here are some tips on the appeal process:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If your plan denies the initial internal appeal, ask it to review its decision. At the same time, immediately request a state fair hearing. You can always withdraw from the hearing later if you’re able to resolve the problem directly with your health plan.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Request a state fair hearing by calling 855-795-0634 or email your request to \u003ca href=\"shdcsu@dss.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\">shdcsu@dss.ca.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Before your hearing, gather medical evidence to bolster your case. “Ask your doctors to write letters of support,” Thantranon says. Your doctor can also participate in the hearing by phone, Weston says.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get help from health care advocacy groups. The Health Consumer Alliance is a good place to start: \u003ca href=\"http://healthconsumer.org/\" target=\"_blank\">healthconsumer.org \u003c/a>and 888-804-3536.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you’re unhappy with the state fair hearing decision, you may be able to request a rehearing or take your case to civil court, Weston says. 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"content": "\u003cp>California and the federal government agreed in concept Saturday on a $6.2-billion deal to reform the Medicaid program and to help pay for care of the low-income population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest share of the funds –- nearly $3.3 billion -– is aimed at helping public hospitals improve the safety and quality of patient care. The plan, known as the Medicaid waiver, also provides money to cover the uninsured and create pilot programs to keep high-need populations out of emergency rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Murray, CEO of the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, said that while the deal provides less than the state requested, it includes all the key policies needed to help public hospitals continue the work they started under the last waiver agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now excited to roll up our sleeves, negotiate the details and get to work,” Murray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials called the deal a “conceptual agreement” and said they would continue working with the federal government to work out specifics. In the meantime, the current waiver –- which would have expired Saturday -- will be extended until Dec. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds come from both the federal and state governments and ease the rules on how to run the Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Health Care Services submitted a proposal for the waiver, also known as \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Pages/WaiverRenewal.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">“Medi-Cal 2020,”\u003c/a> in March and had been negotiating with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ever since. The original proposal was whittled down from $17 billion to $7.25 and finally to $6.2 billion during the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Dr. Susan Ehrlich, CEO of San Mateo Medical Center, said Saturday that public hospitals can now keep improving access to primary care, integrating physical and mental health services and making other changes to help patients stay healthy and out of the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrlich, who traveled to Washington earlier this week with several other hospital \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/28/billions-in-medicaid-funding-at-risk-as-california-feds-debate/\" target=\"_blank\">leaders to push for the new waiver\u003c/a>, said she and others will be watching closely to see how the details get worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But mostly, we are just really pleased that the overarching substance of the deal turned out the way it did,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the expiring five-year waiver, known as the “Bridge to Reform,” hospitals across the state began to overhaul the way they provided care. For example, they created programs to track chronically ill patients and expanded their primary care clinics. Other programs helped reduce deaths by sepsis infections and the number of patients with uncontrolled diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospital leaders said they expect the changes to save money for the state and federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new waiver, health officials can take their efforts to the next level, Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, said in a statement. Once the details are hammered out, Wright said, “we expect to see an explosion of exciting activity at the county level to improve health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright added that the agreement has the potential to “spur innovation in counties across the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The waiver also fundamentally changes the way government covers the uninsured. Instead of only covering hospital-based care, public hospitals and clinics will have more flexibility and be able to focus more on outpatient and primary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of funding five years of care for the uninsured, however, the plan only specifies $236 million for the first year. Funding for the next four will depend on an outside assessment of how much hospitals need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Affordable Care Act expanded coverage to millions of Californians. Still, more than 3 million are believed to be without insurance. Murray of the hospital association said she believes there will still be “significant need” for hospitals to receive additional funding for the uninsured population.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When you call to set up your next check-up, you may be unknowingly arranging for care from a physician in trouble for drug abuse, sexual misconduct, patient negligence or harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, physicians on probation for such punishments are already required to report them to their malpractice insurers and hospitals where they work, yet there is no rule requiring similar pro-active notifications of patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“I was stunned to learn that the doctor I had been referred to had a long history of substance abuse and DUIs.\"\u003ccite>Marian Hollingsworth, Consumers Union\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The advocacy group Consumers Union wants that to change. They are calling for the Medical Board of California to make doctors on probation responsible for informing their patients. The board is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mbc.ca.gov/About_Us/Meetings/2015/Agendas/agenda_20151029_brd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">scheduled to consider the idea\u003c/a> on Friday at its quarterly meeting in San Diego. But it is unlikely to win approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe if patients knew, they wouldn’t see the doctor,” said Lisa McGiffert, Director of the Safe Patient Project at Consumers Union. “Maybe they still would. But they are doing it with their eyes open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposed rule, doctors on probation would have to alert their patients when they call for an appointment as well as verbally and in writing during the visit. Consumers Union filed a \u003ca href=\"http://safepatientproject.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Administrative-petition-probation-disclosure-FINAL-CUSPP-as-sent-to-MBC-October-8-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">9-page petition\u003c/a> with the board outlining its proposal. The petition was signed by more than 5,000 Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Doctors' Group Resistant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the disciplinary actions against doctors \u003ca href=\"http://www.mbc.ca.gov/Breeze/License_Verification.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">are posted\u003c/a> on the board’s website, the state’s biggest physician group, the California Medical Association, says the proposed changes of the notification requirements would go too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Paul Hegyi, a spokesman for the association, said they worry this type of rule would “put a burden on the physician-patient relationship,\" especially when appointment time is already limited. “This information is already public and available online and can be accessed by anyone,\" he said. \"This is a duplicative burden that will interfere with patient care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board rejected a similar measure when it was proposed by board staff in 2012. In fact, the board has just begun \u003ca href=\"http://www.mbc.ca.gov/About_Us/Media_Room/2015/news_releases_20151020_verify.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a public relations effort\u003c/a> to encourage patients to take it upon themselves to research the disciplinary actions against their doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board officials even held a tutorial to show people how to use their website at a mall in Sacramento last week. Those who don’t have access to computers can call the board’s office for assistance, a statement from the board said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates see the board’s outreach as a response to their efforts but say it doesn’t go far enough. The burden to find the information shouldn’t be placed on patients, who may not think to look it up, know how to do so, or have access to the Internet, McGiffert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other patients may not be able to research the information due to mental or physical impairments. They could be missing out on important information about the doctors they have trusted with their care, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the approximately \u003ca href=\"http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/HWDD/HWC/FactSheets/MD-2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">137,000 licensed medical doctors\u003c/a> in California, nearly 500 are on probation for offenses including sexual misconduct, gross negligence, substance abuse, inappropriate prescribing, and conviction of a felony, Consumers Union said. The group \u003ca href=\"http://safepatientproject.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/MBC-list-of-docs-on-probation-as-of-9-29-15-as-of-10-8-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">compiled a list of doctors on probation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patient advocate Marian Hollingsworth, who works for Consumers Union, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article27279535.html#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\">described in a Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> opinion piece how she felt when she discovered her doctor’s probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stunned to learn that the doctor I had been referred to for a routine colonoscopy was about to start a 30-day suspension and seven-year probation,” she wrote. “He had a long history of substance abuse and DUIs, but what finally got the board’s attention is that he went after a patient with a hatchet in an alcohol-fueled rage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors who got into trouble are from all over the state -- in big cities like Los Angeles and rural areas like Humboldt County. In some areas with doctor shortages, if a doctor is on probation it may present an even bigger dilemma for patients. Those patients should be able to decide whether they still want to see the doctor even if it’s their only option for miles, McGiffert said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By agreeing to go on probation, doctors are not necessarily admitting they violated ethics rules. Some do it to avoid lengthy and costly legal battles, McGiffert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physicians on probation may be barred from performing specific procedures, or prescribing certain medicines for a period of time. They might have to take classes or be supervised. In some cases it means a physician disciplined for sexual misconduct must be chaperoned in the exam room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of physician discipline has been difficult for the board. It has come under fire in recent years for failing to hold problem doctors accountable. Some legislators in 2013\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/25/local/la-me-rx-medical-board-20130426\" target=\"_blank\"> called for stripping the board\u003c/a> of its investigative powers. This issue will draw renewed public attention to whether the board is aggressive enough in protecting the public from dangerous doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGiffert said there is concern in the medical field that requiring doctors to tell patients about their probationary status is too awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The objection is that, gee, this would be very uncomfortable for doctors,” McGiffert said. “What does that tell you? Sometimes you need that kind of pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update:\u003c/strong> In its meeting on Friday, the Medical Board of California voted to deny the petition that would have required doctors on probation to notify their patients. But it did agree to form a committee to review the petition more closely and potentially develop a plan to improve notification to patients of doctors on probation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The group \u003ca href=\"http://safepatientproject.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/MBC-list-of-docs-on-probation-as-of-9-29-15-as-of-10-8-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">compiled a list of doctors on probation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patient advocate Marian Hollingsworth, who works for Consumers Union, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article27279535.html#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\">described in a Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> opinion piece how she felt when she discovered her doctor’s probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stunned to learn that the doctor I had been referred to for a routine colonoscopy was about to start a 30-day suspension and seven-year probation,” she wrote. “He had a long history of substance abuse and DUIs, but what finally got the board’s attention is that he went after a patient with a hatchet in an alcohol-fueled rage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors who got into trouble are from all over the state -- in big cities like Los Angeles and rural areas like Humboldt County. In some areas with doctor shortages, if a doctor is on probation it may present an even bigger dilemma for patients. Those patients should be able to decide whether they still want to see the doctor even if it’s their only option for miles, McGiffert said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By agreeing to go on probation, doctors are not necessarily admitting they violated ethics rules. Some do it to avoid lengthy and costly legal battles, McGiffert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physicians on probation may be barred from performing specific procedures, or prescribing certain medicines for a period of time. They might have to take classes or be supervised. In some cases it means a physician disciplined for sexual misconduct must be chaperoned in the exam room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of physician discipline has been difficult for the board. It has come under fire in recent years for failing to hold problem doctors accountable. 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"content": "\u003cp>California risks losing billions in health care dollars if the state and federal governments can’t agree this week on a plan to fund reforms of the Medicaid program, hospital officials and experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public hospitals throughout the state are counting on the $7.25 billion in state and federal funds to treat large numbers of low-income and uninsured patients. The plan, known as a Medicaid waiver, also would allow the state to continue improving the efficiency, safety and quality of its Medicaid program, called Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of all Californians are enrolled in Medi-Cal -- 12.5 million people. The current waiver, which took effect in 2010, expires on Oct. 31, though the federal government can grant an extension while negotiations over the plan continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"a5pZ22plFG1s4mvtWAOUCrTWG4OLpJXL\"]“It is critically important to us,” said Susan Ehrlich, CEO of San Mateo Medical Center, one of the state’s public hospital and clinic systems. “It is a very large percentage of the overall revenue that we rely on, and we don’t have other ways to make it up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrlich is one of about a dozen public and University of California hospital leaders who traveled to Washington this week to make their case for the waiver to members of Congress and administration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Murray, CEO of the California Association of Public Hospitals, said one of the sticking points is how long an important provision of the waiver would last, with the state proposing five years and the federal government offering only three. The provision would pay for changes in how public hospitals deliver care, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three years is not enough,” she said. “We need five years of support and incentive to achieve the goals of where the public systems need to be to stay competitive in their local marketplaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disagreements also exist over how hospitals should be paid to care for uninsured patients. The state wants to have the flexibility to use the money for more primary and preventive care rather than just to pay for emergency room visits and hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state and the federal government have been negotiating since March, when California submitted a plan called “\u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Pages/WaiverRenewal.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Medi-Cal 2020\u003c/a>.” The plan also includes money to improve dental health programs, to expand the number of providers treating Medi-Cal patients and to start pilot projects addressing social problems of high-need patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Department of Health Care Services Director Jennifer Kent said this week that the state needs the waiver to keep public hospitals financially stable so they can continue implementing reforms enacted under the Affordable Care Act. State officials are working toward a resolution and are trying to meet the deadline, Kent said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone knows this is important,” Kent said. “It just boils down to getting the details worked out. I think we will get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services declined to comment on the ongoing negotiations, but said extensions have been granted in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public hospitals have every right to be concerned about how the discussions are going, but there is always a lot of back and forth in Medicaid waiver negotiations, said Robin Rudowitz, associate director of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. “Given the amount of money, I can’t imagine that anyone is going to walk away from the table,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waivers allow states to make exceptions to the usual Medicaid rules. Under the expiring Medicaid waiver, known as the “Bridge to Reform,” California enrolled about 650,000 uninsured residents in free county-based health coverage until they were able to enroll in Medi-Cal through the Affordable Care Act. The state also transitioned many of its Medi-Cal beneficiaries into managed care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, public hospitals revamped their programs — and created new ones — to improve the health and safety of their patients and to cut costs. For example, they began tracking patients with certain diseases, pairing patients with health coaches and making more weekend appointments for primary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now public hospitals say they need money to continue implementing the reforms. The new waiver also would increase the number of hospitals that can access funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo Medical Center used the money to cut wait time for primary care appointments, screen diabetic patients for depression and reduce deaths by sepsis. Kern Medical Center reduced pressure ulcers among hospitalized patients and helped obese children lose weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"iB9CYD3FkXcoqHTBmSs0dLf7lgJv3VwT\"]UCLA Health System developed a program to help train physicians from Latin America so they could begin working in in high-need areas. The university’s health system also improved diabetic patients’ adherence to instructions on taking medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santiago Muñoz, UCLA Health System’s chief strategy officer, said that his institution relies on it to help pay for expensive care to children with complex illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re providing a lot of care to Medicaid kids,” said Munoz, who was among those who traveled to Washington this week to push for the waiver. “A lot of this highly specialized care is only available at academic or teaching hospitals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the new waiver, public hospitals will be in a “precarious situation,” said Christina Ghaly, deputy director for strategy and operations for the L.A. 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Under the expiring Medicaid waiver, known as the “Bridge to Reform,” California enrolled about 650,000 uninsured residents in free county-based health coverage until they were able to enroll in Medi-Cal through the Affordable Care Act. The state also transitioned many of its Medi-Cal beneficiaries into managed care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, public hospitals revamped their programs — and created new ones — to improve the health and safety of their patients and to cut costs. For example, they began tracking patients with certain diseases, pairing patients with health coaches and making more weekend appointments for primary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now public hospitals say they need money to continue implementing the reforms. The new waiver also would increase the number of hospitals that can access funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo Medical Center used the money to cut wait time for primary care appointments, screen diabetic patients for depression and reduce deaths by sepsis. Kern Medical Center reduced pressure ulcers among hospitalized patients and helped obese children lose weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>UCLA Health System developed a program to help train physicians from Latin America so they could begin working in in high-need areas. 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"content": "\u003cp>Soon after moving to Utah this summer, Rainbow Sky Buck ended up at the hospital with a painful ear infection. There, Buck learned she no longer had access to the free health coverage she had in California as a former foster youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay for the care, Buck emptied out her bank account and borrowed money. “Luckily, I got my antibiotics and I am okay now,” she said. “But what is going to happen next time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the health law, young adults who age of out of the foster care system are eligible for free Medicaid coverage \u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/news/foster-children-california-adults-medicaid/\" target=\"_blank\">until they turn 26.\u003c/a> The provision was an attempt to give them the same opportunity as other young people who can stay on their parents’ insurance until their 26\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these young adults are encountering a major barrier: They are only guaranteed coverage in the state where they were in foster care. States have the option of extending the benefit to all former foster youths, but only about a dozen have done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, advocates and policymakers are trying to change the law at the federal level, so former foster youths don’t lose access to Medicaid coverage no matter where they move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"quDmgipf5B7js5fILKqbBJCNiiZBBixc\"]Reps. Karen Bass, D-Calif., and Jim McDermott, D-Wash., have proposed \u003ca href=\"http://bass.house.gov/press-release/reps-bass-mcdermott-introduce-legislation-ensure-former-foster-youth-can-keep-health\" target=\"_blank\">legislation\u003c/a> that would allow them to qualify for Medicaid, the government health program for low-income Americans, in any state. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has introduced a similar \u003ca href=\"http://www.casey.senate.gov/newsroom/releases/casey-introduces-bill-to-fix-glitch-that-could-kick-former-foster-youth-off-of-medicaid\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a> that he said would be a simple clarification of what Congress intended. Meanwhile, advocates are pushing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to change its interpretation of the original provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://firstfocus.org/\" target=\"_blank\">First Focus\u003c/a>, which advocates for foster youths, has been receiving calls from young people who had no idea that they would lose health insurance when they moved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really do feel an urgency about this,” said Shadi Houshyar, vice president of child welfare policy at the organization. “So many people who have aged out have significant health needs and coverage is so important. There shouldn’t be an additional barrier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former foster youths are more likely than their peers to have physical and mental health needs, experts say. Ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.chapinhall.org/research/report/midwest-evaluation-adult-functioning-former-foster-youth\" target=\"_blank\">research\u003c/a> in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa shows that 22 percent of former foster youths had been hospitalized at least once in the previous year and one-third had two or more emergency room visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like other young people, former foster youths move to different states for school, jobs or family, said Fatima Morales, policy and outreach associate for the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.childrennow.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Children Now\u003c/a>. Morales said they shouldn’t be penalized for doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94773\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-19-at-9.27.56-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-19-at-9.27.56-AM-400x367.png\" alt=\"Lezlie Martinez, 19, holds her two-year-old son. 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She would like to move from California to Colorado where she says it would be cheaper to live, but she worries about losing her health coverage. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Jordan Verdin )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morales said her organization is trying to inform youths what they might face if they move. “They need to know how their health coverage might be impacted,” she said. “It’s just something that they need to weigh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lezlie Martinez, 19, is weighing her options now. She is hoping to move from California to Colorado because she wants to live in a place with a lower cost of living. 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Meanwhile, advocates are pushing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to change its interpretation of the original provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://firstfocus.org/\" target=\"_blank\">First Focus\u003c/a>, which advocates for foster youths, has been receiving calls from young people who had no idea that they would lose health insurance when they moved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really do feel an urgency about this,” said Shadi Houshyar, vice president of child welfare policy at the organization. “So many people who have aged out have significant health needs and coverage is so important. There shouldn’t be an additional barrier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former foster youths are more likely than their peers to have physical and mental health needs, experts say. 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"content": "\u003cp>The death-with-dignity movement took a giant step forward this week, with 38 million people coming under its umbrella in a single swoop when California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520162AB15\">law\u003c/a> still leaves out a wide range of people who might want to be covered: people with progressive debilitating diseases that don't have an obvious six-months-to-live prognosis and people with dementia, the fastest-growing health threat in the U.S. That's also true of similar laws in Oregon, Washington, Montana and Vermont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there might be no good way around this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These restrictions might be necessary at this point in the history of aid in dying in this country, according to Judith Schwarz of the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://endoflifechoicesny.org/\" target=\"_blank\">End of Life Choices New York\u003c/a>. \"Opponents have many fears that such laws will be misapplied to the disenfranchised,\" she wrote in an email, and it's important to guarantee that for these groups — the poor, the elderly, the isolated — the \"right to die\" doesn't somehow morph into the duty to die \"for the sake of others.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there's a problem with limiting the death-with-dignity option only to those with a prognosis of fewer than six months. For one thing, prognosis is difficult, and studies show that doctors are actually overoptimistic in their assessment of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/02/10/384011538/cancer-patients-and-doctors-struggle-to-predict-survival\" target=\"_blank\">how long their patients have to live\u003c/a>. \"Some doctors may wish to be more compassionate and not be as specific,\" Janis Landis, president of the Final Exit Network, wrote in an email, \"and ironically thus deny the patient the certification that is required.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there are the conditions that are completely unpredictable, not only in terms of life expectancy but in terms of how, when and in what order functions will be lost. This includes progressive neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis and ALS, where those who want to avoid the most debilitating final stages might end their lives prematurely, afraid that their ability to swallow a pill might disappear without warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fear of this actually drives some individuals to act early, while they can still procure the equipment they need,\" Landis wrote. To her, it seems especially harsh \"to force such a cruel choice on an individual already suffering so greatly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fraught as it is, though, the requirement that a person be able to swallow lethal medication on his own is an important safeguard, according to Mickey MacIntyre, the chief strategic officer of Compassion & Choices. \"This self-administration requirement is a critical distinction between medical aid in dying and euthanasia,\" he wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unlike medical aid in dying, euthanasia requires a healthcare professional or someone else, not the individual, to administer the medication,\" he added, \"So the individual loses control of the decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacIntyre pointed out that people often change their minds at the last minute, and have every right to do so. In Oregon, he noted, about one-third of the people who obtained lethal drugs through the state's death-with-dignity program since 1998 ultimately \u003ca href=\"http://public.health.oregon.gov/ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/DeathwithDignityAct/Documents/year17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">decided not to take them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This seems to be a distinctly American quandary, though. In other countries, such as Belgium and the Netherlands, there are also safeguards written into their right-to-die laws, but they are broader and more inclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The European safeguard is 'intolerable suffering,' \" said Margaret Pabst Battin, a bioethicist at the University of Utah. \"It's not defined in terms of the time until death, and it does include people with ALS or other conditions that wouldn't fall under our laws, which don't say anything about suffering.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Battin experienced the complexities of deciding when suffering becomes unbearable in caring for her husband, Brooke Hopkins, who was paralyzed from the shoulders down in a 2008 bicycle crash and lived for five more years, until he finally \u003ca href=\"http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/choosing-to-die-after-a-struggle-with-life/\">decided\u003c/a> in 2013 to withdraw the machinery keeping him alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada used European-style language \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/06/384292996/canadians-have-a-right-to-assisted-suicide-high-court-says\">upholding\u003c/a> the right to die for anyone with \"a grievous and irremediable medical condition ... that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A death-with-dignity bill introduced in Battin's own state tried to broaden the safeguards to include people with a wider range of illnesses. On the phone with me, Battin read aloud from the \u003ca href=\"http://le.utah.gov/~2015/bills/static/HB0391.html\">Utah Death with Dignity Act\u003c/a>, introduced by Rep. 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Is the demented individual — perhaps someone relatively content in her diminishment — \"the same as the individual who so FIRMLY REQUESTED/DEMANDED lethal meds at a certain point in their future demented state?\" Schwarz wondered. \"And who are you going to get to administer lethal meds under such circumstances?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwarz spends a lot of time these days with Alzheimer's patients who want to choose the timing of their deaths. She said all she can offer them is guidance about \u003ca href=\"http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Abstract/2009/09000/Stopping_Eating_and_Drinking.28.aspx\">stopping eating and drinking\u003c/a> as a way to hasten the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very, very hard choice to make when life still has pleasure & purpose,\" she wrote. 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To her, it seems especially harsh \"to force such a cruel choice on an individual already suffering so greatly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fraught as it is, though, the requirement that a person be able to swallow lethal medication on his own is an important safeguard, according to Mickey MacIntyre, the chief strategic officer of Compassion & Choices. \"This self-administration requirement is a critical distinction between medical aid in dying and euthanasia,\" he wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unlike medical aid in dying, euthanasia requires a healthcare professional or someone else, not the individual, to administer the medication,\" he added, \"So the individual loses control of the decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacIntyre pointed out that people often change their minds at the last minute, and have every right to do so. In Oregon, he noted, about one-third of the people who obtained lethal drugs through the state's death-with-dignity program since 1998 ultimately \u003ca href=\"http://public.health.oregon.gov/ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/DeathwithDignityAct/Documents/year17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">decided not to take them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This seems to be a distinctly American quandary, though. 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But it is also declining an opportunity to reconsider those rulings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be that the petition was denied \"because there are not four justices on the Supreme Court who think Jacobson is such bad law that it should be overturned,\" Reiss wrote on\u003ca href=\"http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/vaccines-and-religious-exemptions-recent-legal-decision/\" target=\"_blank\"> Skeptical Raptor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in California the new vaccine law appears to raise a different constitutional question -- all California children have a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/publications/CRhandbook/ch6\" target=\"_blank\">constitutional right to an education\u003c/a>. 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