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American Indian Healthcare Matrix (Part IV)

By |2017-02-10T09:49:38-07:00May 28th, 2014|General|

So far in this series, we’ve covered the Indian Health Service, the ”638’s” administered by tribes and tribal organizations, and Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Plan.  This week focuses on the Affordable Care Act & the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act. American Indians wishing to buy health insurance in the Health Insurance Marketplace won’t need [...]

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American Indian Healthcare Matrix (Part III)

By |2017-02-10T09:49:38-07:00May 20th, 2014|General|

In addition to services provided by the Indian Health Service and the ”638’s” administered by tribes and tribal organizations, American Indians are eligible to apply for and receive Medicare, Medicaid, and  Children’s Health Insurance Plan.  American Indians applying for Medicaid services in Arizona need to meet the same income requirements as all other applicants.  Unearned [...]

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Case Dismissed: Jason K v. Humble

By |2017-02-10T09:49:44-07:00March 28th, 2014|Behavioral Health|

Most of you know that we’ve reached a final agreement with the Plaintiffs in the 32 year-old Arnold vs. Sarn lawsuit.  We expect to have a dismissal hearing later this year- which will officially end the Arnold lawsuit.  We got some other good news on a different behavioral health case last week. Last Friday marked the [...]

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Arizona Public Health Association gets National Recognition

By |2017-02-10T09:49:57-07:00December 18th, 2013|General|

Congratulations to Arizona Public Health Association (AzPHA) for gaining national recognition for its work- snagging the 2013 National Affiliate of the Year Award from the American Public Health Association. For 85 years, AzPHA has helped shape public health in Arizona working to create smoke-free environments and access to healthcare.  In this year alone, the Arizona affiliate [...]

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Chronic Disease Calculator E-tool.

By |2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 25th, 2013|General|

The CDC just developed a great new Cost Calculator that provides state-level annual medical expenditure and absenteeism estimates for 10 chronic conditions.  The tool provides medical expenditures for all of AZ for all payers as well as specific payers Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial insurers.  The 10 chronic conditions are arthritis; asthma; cancer; cardiovascular diseases (congestive [...]

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Leveraging Medicaid to Help Arizonans “Kick the Habit”

By |2017-02-10T09:50:08-07:00September 19th, 2013|Prevention|

Many of the health disparities in the US are linked to income.  In general… the lower a family’s income the greater the prevalence of health disparities.  Health impacts from smoking cigarettes are no exception.  Arizonans below the poverty line (100% of FPL) are 40% more likely to smoke than those with more money... and about 34% of [...]

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Primary Care Provider Loan Repayment

By |2017-02-10T09:50:11-07:00August 29th, 2013|General|

Building Arizona’s inventory of primary care providers has been a priority of ours for many years- and it’s increasingly important as we move toward Medicaid restoration.   As one of our many initiatives in our Bureau of Health Systems Development, our Workforce Program hosted a presentation to Physician Assistant students at the NAU Phoenix campus last [...]

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Budget Squared Away

By |2017-02-10T09:50:21-07:00June 20th, 2013|Behavioral Health, General|

As you’ve probably seen, the Legislature went into a special session and worked some long hours to pass a FY 2014 budget.  While we’re still analyzing everything, here are some key provisions of the budget bill as it was sent to the Governor.  Medicaid (AHCCCS) will be restored and expanded.  This will be a big [...]

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Sequestration and Our Mission

By |2017-02-10T09:50:37-07:00March 12th, 2013|General|

No doubt the word “ Sequestration” is front and center in your vocabulary these days.  This is just a quick note to forecast how it might impact our mission.  For starters… the main impacts from federal sequestration (i.e. the federal budget reduction for some programs) will be related to the services that we provide and [...]

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Doctor Shortage – a Public Health Concern

By |2017-02-10T09:50:44-07:00January 30th, 2013|Affordable Care Act, General|

Public Health tracks the number of healthcare workers – physicians, dentists and psychiatrists – to make sure we have enough to take care of the community.  In Arizona we’ve been challenged to recruit and keep those professionals – and we have numerous Health Professional Shortage Areas.  Just to eliminate the current shortages, we’d need an [...]

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