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Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) Update

Friday, August 6, 2010

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On Thursday, August, 5, 2010, the Senate approved a $26.1 billion state-aid package that will be considered in the House next week. The measure (HR 1586) would extend enhanced federal Medicaid funding to states. Without the extension, the elevated federal funding will expire on December 31, 2010, halfway through the fiscal year for states causing [...]

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Tell Your Senators To Increase Funding for Important Brain Injury Programs!

Friday, July 23, 2010

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On Tuesday July 27, 2010, the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor/HHS) will consider a draft version of a Fiscal Year 2011 appropriations bill. Contained in the bill will be provisions important to people with brain injury including programs authorized through the TBI Act as well as the [...]

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for brain injury is beneficial, but only within small time frame

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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One of the more disturbing results of traumatic brain injury is that secondary damage can often occur after the initial trauma. Such secondary damage can lower oxygen levels in the brain—making tissue oxygenation through hyperbaric oxygen therapy a potentially promising therapy for traumatic brain injury. A recent animal study confirmed that a single treatment of hyperbaric [...]

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Growth hormone replacement therapy improves cognition

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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We are now beginning to understand that traumatic brain injury may often include damage to the pituitary gland—a small, pea-sized area of the brain that can easily be sheared or obstructed by the bony cradle it sits in. The result of pituitary gland damage can be hypopituitarism (a condition in which the pituitary gland doesn’t [...]

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Return to work: Is the workplace ready for the TBI survivor?

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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Occupational therapists work one-on-one with people after a traumatic brain injury in order to recover as much of a pre-injury daily life as possible. Return to work, with its financial, social, and psychological advantages, is one important goal in occupational therapy. However, assessing a patient for the ability to return to work can be challenging—factors [...]

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Late recovery of responsiveness and consciousness not the exception after vegetative state

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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It has been considered unlikely that a person in a vegetative state will regain consciousness beyond 12 months after a traumatic brain injury or 3 months after an anoxic or hemorrhagic injury. However, ongoing improvements in both research methodology and medical intervention may be changing this way of thinking. A recent study of long-term vegetative state [...]

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House of Representatives Passed a Historic Health Care Overhaul Package

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Dear Advocates, As many of you know, the House of Representatives passed a historic health care overhaul package late Sunday that marks one of the biggest victories in the history of the Brain Injury Association and for people affected by brain injury across the country.  BIAA advocated tirelessly for more than a year to ensure [...]

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FY2011 Defense Authorization Act

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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This year’s House version of the FY2011 Defense Authorization Act (HR 5136) will go to conference with two amendments addressing the problem of faulty brain injury screening in which the military has been under fire because of in recent reports. Congresswoman Mary Fallin of Oklahoma offered an amendment to the bill that was adopted stating that [...]

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Health Care Reform Update

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Last week, the Health and Human Services (HHS) department asked for public comments regarding their draft strategic framework on multiple chronic conditions (MCC).  The framework addresses approaches to improving the health of individuals with concurrent MCC by providing options for HHS to strengthen coordination of its efforts internally and collaboration with stakeholders externally. BIAA submitted a [...]

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FMAP Update

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Last week, Senate Democrats came four votes short of invoking cloture on the tax extenders bill that includes the extension of increased federal Medicaid monies through June, 2011. After passing a Medicare physicians’ payment bill on its own instead of as a part of the larger extender package, Senator Max Baucus is encouraged that the [...]

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