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AAP
ICAAP joined more than 350
other groups, including the AAP, many AAP state chapters, and nine
Illinois organizations, in sending a letter to President Donald Trump, expressing
unequivocal support for the safety of vaccines. The letter outlines how
vaccines have worked to protect the health of children and adults and
save lives and highlights the scientific evidence supporting vaccine
safety and effectiveness. The organizations that signed the letter
represent families, providers, researchers, patients, and consumers.
AAP
A
new study published in the February issue of Pediatrics
looks at adolescent immunization and ways to approach vaccine hesitant
patients and parents. Physicians and healthcare providers often receive
many reasons for vaccine refusal or hesitation, which can be difficult.
This study examines strategies that heighten confidence in immunizations
and addresses parental concerns to promote adolescent immunization and
explores how best to approach the adolescent and the family to improve
vaccination rates.
AAP
Interested
in learning what the new HPV vaccination series recommendations means for
your practice? Unsure of how to best address commonly asked questions
about HPV vaccinations from parents? Want to know more about how to
increase HPV vaccination rates among your patient population? Join a
panel of experts in pediatric primary care, infectious diseases, OB/GYN,
and ENT for an HPV vaccination update webinar on March 6 at noon. Experts
will cover a range of topics related to HPV vaccination, including the latest
trends in HPV disease prevalence and prevention. Click here for more information and to register.
Illinois
Department of Healthcare and Family Services
This
is to inform providers that HFS launched a secure electronic web-based
portal to assist providers statewide in resolving issues with Illinois
Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs).
A major goal of the new MCO provider
complaint portal is to facilitate prompt and fair resolution of disputes
between MCOs and providers. Issues impacting immediate access to care
will be expedited.
The new MCO provider complaint portal does
not replace issue reporting and escalation processes already in place
between providers and an MCO. Prior to submitting a complaint through the
new online portal, issues must already have been submitted to and
reviewed by the MCO in question. If HFS determines a complaint was
submitted to the Department prior to the MCO being afforded an
opportunity to resolve it directly with the provider, the complaint will
be immediately closed.
Providers should carefully identify which
representatives within their provider organizations will be designated to
use this complaint system for unresolved issues. The name of the provider
representative submitting the complaint will be shared with the MCO, and
outcomes will be reported only to the provider representative whose email
is entered into the system with the complaint.
HFS staff will follow Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy procedures when using this secured site and
providers must do so as well as a condition of use. Providers are able to
upload protected health information to the secure provider complaint
portal. Each complaint should be for a single topic for a single MCO;
please do not combine several issues or designate more than one MCO on
the same complaint.
The link to the complaint portal may be
found on HFS' Care Coordination webpage, or may be
accessed directly from the HFS Managed Care Provider Complaints webpage.
The portal is available for immediate use.
AAP
AAP
members can review and share comments electronically on resolutions for
the Annual Leadership Forum (ALF). An important aim of the ALF is to
incorporate diverse perspectives in the discussion and debate of leading
pediatric issues. Your comments are important to the AAP leadership and
representatives of your district, chapter, committee, council, and
section who will attend the ALF and vote on resolutions.
Comments received will be compiled and
shared with the members of the reference committees and also posted
online by Wednesday, March 8, so that ALF attendees can view the report.
Please focus comments on the content of the resolution itself.
Comments are due on Wednesday, March 1. To
share your comment on a resolution, please click here. Please note that commenting is
only available to AAP members so you will be required to log in to
provide comments.
ICAAP
The
Committee on Early Care and Education (COECE), previously known as the
Committee on Child Care (COCC), is restarting February 21 at 1pm. This
committee serves to promote optimal development, health, and safety of
all children through access to quality early education and child care,
and to provide a forum for pediatricians, other health care providers,
and those working in child care and early education to collaborate around
and discuss issues relating to early education and child care. Initially,
the committee will meet via teleconference call to discuss committee
structure, leadership, goals, and actions. If you are interested in
joining the call or would like more information, contact Nirja Shah, MPH,
CHES, at nshah@illinoisaap.com.
ICAAP
Health
starts in our homes, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and communities.
Increasing attention is being focused on the economic and social
conditions that shape the health of individuals and communities. In fact,
where a child lives (their zip code) has a far greater impact on their
health and well-being than biological influences (their genetic code)
alone.
On Friday, April 28, 2017, ICAAP will host
its 3rd Annual Autism, Behavior, and Complex Medical Needs - Downstate
(ABC-D) Conference at the Regency Conference Center in O'Fallon, IL. This
year, the conference theme is "Zip Code vs Genetic Code: The Social
Determinants of Caring for Children and Families with Special
needs." This conference will deliver valuable information about social
determinants of health in order to enable providers across many
disciplines to recognize and address these determinants when caring for
children and families with special healthcare needs. Register for the
conference HERE! For more information on continuing
education, session descriptions, and general conference details, visit
the conference website or contact Tom Bradach at tbradach@illinoisaap.com.
WBBM-TV
The
amount of flu cases is rolling across the county, with doctors seeing as
many as 14,000 new cases a week — and they say they may know what's to
blame. Johanna Flynn, a mother of two kids with runny noses and fevers,
said it’s been a long couple of weeks. It's also been a long couple of
weeks at Child & Adolescent Health, as they have been dealing with
the spike in flu cases. READ
MORE
AAP News
A
streamlined process soon will be available for pediatricians, pediatric
medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists who want to
practice medicine across state lines. The Interstate Medical Licensure
Compact is in the process of establishing an expedited pathway to license
qualified physicians to practice in multiple states in a safe and
accountable manner. Physicians now face the burdensome process of
applying individually to each state in which they want to practice. READ
MORE
EurekAlert!
Doctors
are beginning to get answers to the question that every parent whose
child has had a traumatic brain injury (TBI) wants to know: What will my
child be like 10 years from now? In a study to be presented Friday Feb.
10 at the annual meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists in
Las Vegas, researchers from Cincinnati Children's will present research
on long-term effects of TBI — an average of seven years after injury. READ
MORE
HealthDay News
Children
in families struggling to make ends meet are developing asthma and
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at faster rates than kids
from families with greater means, a new study finds. On the other hand,
kids from wealthier families are being diagnosed with autism spectrum
disorder more often than children in poorer homes. But that likely
indicates that those parents have better access to the health care
services that can uncover an autism diagnosis, the study authors said. READ
MORE
By Jessica
Taylor
 Today, about 1 in 5 children between the ages of 6 and
19 has obesity. In fact, the percentage has tripled in the U.S. since the
1970s. Childhood obesity is considered to be the most common prevalent
nutritional disorder of U.S. children — one that's most often seen by
pediatricians. Because of the prevalence, the Endocrine Society recently
released an updated Clinical Practice Guideline Program to help the
prevention and treatment of childhood obesity. READ
MORE
HealthDay News
It's
still flu season, and not too late to get your flu shot. But a new study
suggests that people with eczema should request the vaccine be given into
the muscle, rather than just under the skin. That's because the
effectiveness of flu shots in people with eczema appears to vary,
depending on how it's given, researchers report. The problem seems to lie
with the fact that the cracked, dry skin of eczema patients is often
colonized by Staphylococcus bacteria. And that seems to dampen the immune
response from the flu vaccine — if the shot is given into the skin, the
researchers said.
READ
MORE
NPR
It
can be difficult to socialize and make friends for many children with
autism. Often that's because reading body language and others' emotions
doesn't always come easily. Many of us seem to learn these social skills
naturally, but maybe there's also a way to teach them. The Psychology Lab
at Indiana State University is trying to tap into that idea with
improvisational theater. Yes, improv. READ
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