For Your Info Clinical
May 17, 1999
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Information of Interest to Clinicians
Bob Smithing, MSN, FNP, Editor
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FOR YOUR CLINICAL INFORMATION LAUNCHES: May 17, 1999 is the first issue
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HCFA CHANGES EFFECTIVE DATE OF NP BILLING REGULATIONS: May 12 1999, the
Health Care Financing Administration published a technical correction
notice relating to the physician fee schedule final rule issued
November 2, 1998 which included the regulations implementing direct Part B
billing for NPs. Sec, 64 Fed. Reg. 25456 (1999). In the notice, HCFA
establishes that the effective date for the qualifications required for
NPs to be eligible for Part B payment as January 1, 2000, rather than
January 1, 1999. While this change may seem negligible, it is in fact
*critical* and directly responds to concerns the American College of
Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) raised about the potential for fraud allegations
to be lodged against NPs who bill the program after 1/1/99, but who did
not meet the educational requirements set forth in the final rule.
Equally important, the change in date provides time to modify the
qualification criteria before the year 2000 implementation and signals
that HCFA has heeded the comments by ACNP and the nursing community
about the considerable impact the qualifications, as currently drafted,
will have on NPs and patient care.
From the American College of Nurse Practitioners. http://www.nurse.org/acnp/
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NIGHT LIGHT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD MAY CAUSE NEARSIGHTEDNESS: Infants who sleep at
night in a bedroom with a light on may be at higher risk for nearsightedness
later in childhood. A collaborative study by researchers at the University of
Pennsylvania Medical Center and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found
that children who slept with either a room light or night light on until age 2
were more likely to later develop myopia (nearsightedness), compared to
children who slept in darkness. Graham E. Quinn, M.D., a pediatric
ophthalmologist at Children's Hospital, and Richard A. Stone, M.D., of Penn's
Scheie Eye Institute, announced their findings in the May 13, 1999 issue of Nature.
From The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Additional information at http://www.chop.edu/new/releases/myopia.html
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CONNGRESSIONAL HEARING ON THE SAFETY OF HEPATITIS B: Organized anti-hepatitis B
vaccine groups are once again questioning the safety of hepatitis B vaccine. On
Tuesday, May 18, 1999, at 10 a.m. (EST) there will be a congressional hearing
before the Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources Committee to discuss
the safety of the hepatitis B vaccine. The presentations are expected to be heavily
anti-hepatitis B.
Here's what YOU can do. Contact members of the subcommittee (see web page) regarding
your position on hepatitis B vaccine use or safety or the importance of providing
this vaccination to infants, children, and teenagers to prevent people from this
potentially life-threatening illness. Subcommittee members need information that
will provide balance to the stories of those who report that they or their children
have had adverse reactions to the vaccine. If you have information about hepatitis B
infected children, case reports describing how serious this disease can be, the lack
of effective treatment modalities, or descriptions of people who suffered or are
suffering from chronic hepatitis B infection, your voice is needed.
From Deborah L. Wexler, MD, Executive Director, Immunization Action Coalition
Additional information is available at http://www.immunize.org/genr.d/issue76.htm
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"AIDS TREATMENT GOES SUBURBAN": Baltimore Sun (05/13/99) P. 1B; Apperson, Jay
In a move acknowledging the spread of HIV throughout Maryland, Chase Brexton Health
Services, Johns Hopkins' medical system AIDS clinic, is expanding its coverage
from the city into suburban locales. In addition, some public clinics on the
Eastern Shore and in the western part of the state are now treating their first
cases of HIV or AIDS. Moving clinics to the suburbs allows patients to seek
treatment closer to home, away from the city, in a more discreet way. In the
past two decades, 19,000 Marylanders have been diagnosed with AIDS and over
2,300 HIV infections were diagnosed last year.
From the CDC HIV/STD/TB Prevention News Update Thursday, May 13, 1999
http://www.cdcnpin.org/db/public/dnmain.htm
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VOLUNTARY RECALL OF POOLED PLASMA, SOLVENT DETERGENT TREATED, PLAS+SD: V.I. Technologies
is voluntarily recalling an additional nineteen lots of PLAS+SD (15 of which are expired)
based on the results of additional testing for parvovirus B19. There has been no evidence
of clinical disease typical of parvovirus B19 associated with the transfusion of the
above lots of PLAS+SD. Parvovirus B19 most seriously affects pregnant women or
immunocompromised individuals. Voluntary recall of these lots is intended to reduce
risk from parvovirus B19 infection.
From MedWatch
Additional information is available at http://www.fda.gov/cber/fprecalls/plasvit3.htm
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HEALTHY HUMOR: According to Chris Craig, he was listening to the BBC the other night. There
was a Pun Writing Championship being held in Bath. Well, someone in Wales decided to
submit ten puns, which he thought were very good, in hopes of winning a prize.
Well no pun in ten did. You can always count on Chris to be punny!
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