Tuesday, March 26, 2013

ASCOG Advocate: March 26, 2013

Stonehenge, in Wiltshire
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On this date, in 1934, the United Kingdom introduced this mandatory testing requirement. This is a test you must re-take when you turn 70 years old in the U.K. 

What is the test?

House Bill 1745 passed a Senate committee with an amendment; the bill will require residents of assisted living centers to disclose third party medical providers and it will protect the facility from liability.

Senate Bill 587, the bill authorizing residents in long-term care facilities to use cameras to record how they are treated, is expected to be heard by the Oklahoma House Long Term Care and Senior Services Committee on April 2.

With an anticipated two-percent profit margin, private insurance companies hope to win big on Florida Medicaid. 

Alabama is considering plans to hand Medicaid over to private insurance companies by 2017.

Oklahoma's House Bill 1552, the bill to reform Medicaid, was not on the agenda for Monday's meeting of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services.  If it fails to make it out of committee by April 4, the bill will die.

SB 237 and SB 527 have been scheduled to be heard before the House Committee on Appropriations and Budget on March 27 at 4:30 p.m.

A Florida family is campaigning to require nursing home residents to go through background checks, not just nursing home staff.
What to do when Social Security runs out.

Joan Sutton shares her thoughts on being an Alzheimer's widow.

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