Healthcare Costs

Pediatricians vote to cut children's healthcare

Published in Physician Law Weekly, March 1st, 2006

With the U.S. House of Representatives passing the budget reconciliation bill (216-214), federal Medicaid law will change and allow states to offer scaled-back benefit packages for children.

It will also let states charge children in poor families premiums for Medicaid coverage, and fees for prescription drugs and some medical services.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), representing the nation's pediatricians who provide a majority of all office visits to children on Medicaid, had urged congressional members to vote no.

"This is a devastating blow delivered right to children," said AAP president Eileen M. Ouellette, MD,...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2006-03-01)

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