http://www.healthycal.org/archives/9417 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:54:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.healthycal.org/archives/9417/comment-page-1#comment-15010 BRIDGEPORT Rant OPIATE’S/PROG’s « ealcohelper4384v Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:28:48 +0000 http://www.healthycal.org/?p=9417#comment-15010 [...] Vincent Dole, a doctor who led the development of methadone treatment in the 1960s, observed that opiate addiction was uniquely intractable; without a pharmaceutical aid, he concluded, it was extremely difficult for patients to continue heroin-free for … Read more on healthycal.org [...] [...] Vincent Dole, a doctor who led the development of methadone treatment in the 1960s, observed that opiate addiction was uniquely intractable; without a pharmaceutical aid, he concluded, it was extremely difficult for patients to continue heroin-free for … Read more on healthycal.org [...]

]]> http://www.healthycal.org/archives/9417/comment-page-1#comment-14341 State Roundup: Different Perks, Penalties For Hospitals Under New Mass. Law | Health Care Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:58:36 +0000 http://www.healthycal.org/?p=9417#comment-14341 [...] HealthyCal: For Uninsured, Methadone Treatment Hard To Secure Like millions of other Americans, Robinson is too young, able-bodied, or childless to qualify for assistance. A substance abuse disorder has to be accompanied by “severe” mental illness to qualify as a disability covered under Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. … If the health reform law is successful in expanding Medicaid to people like Robinson, his chances at addiction treatment will also improve. The Affordable Care Act states that mental health services will be reimbursed on par with medical procedures. Analysts say this will free up providers to see more addiction patients, and treatment services will increase in turn. But methadone’s role in this equation is unclear (Landau, 8/15). [...] [...] HealthyCal: For Uninsured, Methadone Treatment Hard To Secure Like millions of other Americans, Robinson is too young, able-bodied, or childless to qualify for assistance. A substance abuse disorder has to be accompanied by “severe” mental illness to qualify as a disability covered under Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. … If the health reform law is successful in expanding Medicaid to people like Robinson, his chances at addiction treatment will also improve. The Affordable Care Act states that mental health services will be reimbursed on par with medical procedures. Analysts say this will free up providers to see more addiction patients, and treatment services will increase in turn. But methadone’s role in this equation is unclear (Landau, 8/15). [...]

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