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...sliding scale, payments made by the states for the medical care of the indigent-meaning essentially those receiving welfare payments. The law went further, enabling states to create a new class of "medically indigent"-those able to feed, house and clothe themselves, but who would neglect their medical and dental care because of difficulty in meeting even routine bills and who would be pauperized by the costs of a major illness...
...entitled to benefits. If a state wanted to tap the U.S. Treasury, it had to provide coverage for a minimum of five essential services-in-patient and out-patient hospital care, doctors' care, X rays, lab tests and nursing-home benefits. Optional frills included home health services, dental care, eyeglasses, drugs, physiotherapy, private-duty nursing, podiatry, hearing aids, chiropractic and even the services of naturopaths. When a plan was finally approved, the federal handout was scaled to the state's income level: 50% for New York and California for exam ple, 65% for Utah. (It would...
...there can be no proof) because Medicaid pays by check, whereas now they can pocket unreported cash fees. Some doctors who do participate are enjoying hugely increased incomes because now they are sought out by patients formerly kept away by pride and poverty. The biggest boom has been in dental services, for which there was a huge and largely unrecognized backlog demand. When Medicaid started, New York paid out less than $1,000,000 in a three-month period for welfare recipients' dental care. Now the quarterly bite is almost $10 million...
...threatens to become Medi-Lo-Cal. In mid-August, California Health and Welfare Administrator Spencer Williams ordered a $210 million cut in Medi-Cal outlays to keep them within the state budget. Biggest cuts would have been in non-emergency surgery, length of hospital stay, drug bills and dental care. But a superior court judge declared the cutbacks illegal. Governor Reagan appealed, and the State Supreme Court is expected to hear the case in about a month. Meanwhile, Reagan has threatened those who provide care that if they ignore the cuts and he wins his appeal, they will...
...addition to Dean Ebert, the Harvard professors who will travel to Los Angeles include: Dr. John H. Knowles, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital; Dr. Leona Baumgartner, visiting professors of Medicine; and Roy O. Creep, formerly Dean of the School of Dental Medicine and presently the director of the Center for Reproductive Biology...