Bill Davis: US NewsStories from United States news sources.Court clarifies TennCare questions (Tennessee)- August 7, 2005 Story in The Tennessean - "Issuing a new order outlining what the state can and cannot do to limit TennCare benefits, a federal judge said officials now have all the information they need to decide whether about 97,000 sick people can stay in the program. State officials said last night they were encouraged by U.S. District Judge John Nixon's ruling, but remained noncommittal."http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050804/NEWS0204/508040393 Wall Street Journal Examines Eli Lilly's Tactics To Persuade Physicians To Prescribe Antidepressant Cymbalta- August 7, 2005 Item in the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Review - "The Wall Street Journal on Friday examined how pharmaceutical companies' contracts with insurers and medical organizations to sell their drugs sometimes restrict 'unflattering statements about the costs and risks of drugs when they communicate with health practitioners.' For example, Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly offers health facilities a 5% discount for the antidepressant Cymbalta, but the contract states that most of the discount could be.http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_hpolicy.cfm#31857 State plans new mental health hospital in Fergus (Minnesota)- August 7, 2005 Fergus Falls Daily Journal story - "The state is readying plans to move out of the Regional Treatment Center -- by readying plans to build a new mental health hospital in Fergus Falls. The 16-bed community behavioral health hospital will be located on about 2.5 to 3.2 acres of land at the intersection of County Roads 1 and 15, just past Alcott Avenue in Fergus Falls, according to Kent Mattson, an attorney who is coordinating the RTC reuse process. Mattson said that construction of the...http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/articles/2005/08/05/news/news03.txt Veto worries local mental health care providers, clients (Texas)- August 7, 2005 Fort Worth Star-Telegram story focusing on Paradise, a Fort Worth community center - "Paradise Center is threatened by Gov. Rick Perry's veto of a bill designed to retain local control of mental health dollars. ...The bill Perry vetoed would have slowed the transfer of decision-making ability from the state's local mental healthmental retardation centers to Austin bureaucrats. Local mental health care providers fear that groups like Paradise will be less likely to get funding from Austin..http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/12305734.htm Mental Health Issues: The Impact of Explosive Growth (Nevada)- August 7, 2005 Red Nova story on the growing need for services in Nevada - "Both private and public juvenile service providers cannot keep up with demand. Hospitals are often on divert status as a result of too many mental health patients taking up emergency room beds, resulting from too few psychiatric facilities being available to meet their needs. One-third of emergency-room beds and one-fifth of detention beds are occupied by mental health patients. And more than one-tenth of the prison beds are...http://www.rednova.com/news/health/199212/mental_health_issues_the_impact_of_explosive_gro... One-Third of the Estimated 8.4M Uninsured Children Go Without Medical Care for Entire Year, Despite Eligibility for Public Health Insurance, Report Sa- August 5, 2005 Item in the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report - "The number of uninsured U.S. children decreased by about two million to 8.4 million between 1998 and 2003, and 70% of the uninsured qualified for public health insurance programs such as Medicaid or SCHIP but were not enrolled, according to a study released on Tuesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CQ HealthBeat reports. According to the report, released as part of the sixth annual RWJF Covering Kids and Families Back to School...http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_hpolicy_recent_rep.cfm?dr_cat=3&show=ye... |