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There where can i buy zithromax over the counter are three separate MSP programs, the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) Program, the Specified Low Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB) Program and the Qualified Individual (QI) Program, each of which is discussed below. Those in QMB receive additional subsidies for Medicare costs. See 2019 Fact Sheet on MSP in NYS by Medicare Rights Center ENGLISH SPANISH State law. N.Y where can i buy zithromax over the counter.

Soc. Serv. L. § 367-a(3)(a), (b), and (d).

2020 Medicare 101 Basics for New York State - 1.5 hour webinar by Eric Hausman, sponsored by NYS Office of the Aging TOPICS COVERED IN THIS ARTICLE 1. No Asset Limit 1A. Summary Chart of MSP Programs 2. Income Limits &.

Rules and Household Size 3. The Three MSP Programs - What are they and how are they Different?. 4. FOUR Special Benefits of MSP Programs.

Back Door to Extra Help with Part D MSPs Automatically Waive Late Enrollment Penalties for Part B - and allow enrollment in Part B year-round outside of the short Annual Enrollment Period No Medicaid Lien on Estate to Recover Payment of Expenses Paid by MSP Food Stamps/SNAP not reduced by Decreased Medical Expenses when Enroll in MSP - at least temporarily 5. Enrolling in an MSP - Automatic Enrollment &. Applications for People who Have Medicare What is Application Process?. 6.

Enrolling in an MSP for People age 65+ who Do Not Qualify for Free Medicare Part A - the "Part A Buy-In Program" 7. What Happens After MSP Approved - How Part B Premium is Paid 8 Special Rules for QMBs - How Medicare Cost-Sharing Works 1. NO ASSET LIMIT!. Since April 1, 2008, none of the three MSP programs have resource limits in New York -- which means many Medicare beneficiaries who might not qualify for Medicaid because of excess resources can qualify for an MSP.

1.A. SUMMARY CHART OF MSP BENEFITS QMB SLIMB QI-1 Eligibility ASSET LIMIT NO LIMIT IN NEW YORK STATE INCOME LIMIT (2020) Single Couple Single Couple Single Couple $1,064 $1,437 $1,276 $1,724 $1,436 $1,940 Federal Poverty Level 100% FPL 100 – 120% FPL 120 – 135% FPL Benefits Pays Monthly Part B premium?. YES, and also Part A premium if did not have enough work quarters and meets citizenship requirement. See “Part A Buy-In” YES YES Pays Part A &.

B deductibles &. Co-insurance YES - with limitations NO NO Retroactive to Filing of Application?. Yes - Benefits begin the month after the month of the MSP application. 18 NYCRR §360-7.8(b)(5) Yes – Retroactive to 3rd month before month of application, if eligible in prior months Yes – may be retroactive to 3rd month before month of applica-tion, but only within the current calendar year.

(No retro for January application). See GIS 07 MA 027. Can Enroll in MSP and Medicaid at Same Time?. YES YES NO!.

Must choose between QI-1 and Medicaid. Cannot have both, not even Medicaid with a spend-down. 2. INCOME LIMITS and RULES Each of the three MSP programs has different income eligibility requirements and provides different benefits.

The income limits are tied to the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). 2019 FPL levels were released by NYS DOH in GIS 20 MA/02 - 2020 Federal Poverty Levels -- Attachment II and have been posted by Medicaid.gov and the National Council on Aging and are in the chart below. NOTE. There is usually a lag in time of several weeks, or even months, from January 1st of each year until the new FPLs are release, and then before the new MSP income limits are officially implemented.

During this lag period, local Medicaid offices should continue to use the previous year's FPLs AND count the person's Social Security benefit amount from the previous year - do NOT factor in the Social Security COLA (cost of living adjustment). Once the updated guidelines are released, districts will use the new FPLs and go ahead and factor in any COLA. See 2019 Fact Sheet on MSP in NYS by Medicare Rights Center ENGLISH SPANISH Income is determined by the same methodology as is used for determining in eligibility for SSI The rules for counting income for SSI-related (Aged 65+, Blind, or Disabled) Medicaid recipients, borrowed from the SSI program, apply to the MSP program, except for the new rules about counting household size for married couples. N.Y.

Soc. Serv. L. 367-a(3)(c)(2), NYS DOH 2000-ADM-7, 89-ADM-7 p.7.

Gross income is counted, although there are certain types of income that are disregarded. The most common income disregards, also known as deductions, include. (a) The first $20 of your &. Your spouse's monthly income, earned or unearned ($20 per couple max).

(b) SSI EARNED INCOME DISREGARDS. * The first $65 of monthly wages of you and your spouse, * One-half of the remaining monthly wages (after the $65 is deducted). * Other work incentives including PASS plans, impairment related work expenses (IRWEs), blind work expenses, etc. For information on these deductions, see The Medicaid Buy-In for Working People with Disabilities (MBI-WPD) and other guides in this article -- though written for the MBI-WPD, the work incentives apply to all Medicaid programs, including MSP, for people age 65+, disabled or blind.

(c) monthly cost of any health insurance premiums but NOT the Part B premium, since Medicaid will now pay this premium (may deduct Medigap supplemental policies, vision, dental, or long term care insurance premiums, and the Part D premium but only to the extent the premium exceeds the Extra Help benchmark amount) (d) Food stamps not counted. You can get a more comprehensive listing of the SSI-related income disregards on the Medicaid income disregards chart. As for all benefit programs based on financial need, it is usually advantageous to be considered a larger household, because the income limit is higher. The above chart shows that Households of TWO have a higher income limit than households of ONE.

The MSP programs use the same rules as Medicaid does for the Disabled, Aged and Blind (DAB) which are borrowed from the SSI program for Medicaid recipients in the “SSI-related category.” Under these rules, a household can be only ONE or TWO. 18 NYCRR 360-4.2. See DAB Household Size Chart. Married persons can sometimes be ONE or TWO depending on arcane rules, which can force a Medicare beneficiary to be limited to the income limit for ONE person even though his spouse who is under 65 and not disabled has no income, and is supported by the client applying for an MSP.

EXAMPLE. Bob's Social Security is $1300/month. He is age 67 and has Medicare. His wife, Nancy, is age 62 and is not disabled and does not work.

Under the old rule, Bob was not eligible for an MSP because his income was above the Income limit for One, even though it was well under the Couple limit. In 2010, NYS DOH modified its rules so that all married individuals will be considered a household size of TWO. DOH GIS 10 MA 10 Medicare Savings Program Household Size, June 4, 2010. This rule for household size is an exception to the rule applying SSI budgeting rules to the MSP program.

Under these rules, Bob is now eligible for an MSP. When is One Better than Two?. Of course, there may be couples where the non-applying spouse's income is too high, and disqualifies the applying spouse from an MSP. In such cases, "spousal refusal" may be used SSL 366.3(a).

(Link is to NYC HRA form, can be adapted for other counties). 3. The Three Medicare Savings Programs - what are they and how are they different?. 1.

Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB). The QMB program provides the most comprehensive benefits. Available to those with incomes at or below 100% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), the QMB program covers virtually all Medicare cost-sharing obligations. Part B premiums, Part A premiums, if there are any, and any and all deductibles and co-insurance.

QMB coverage is not retroactive. The program’s benefits will begin the month after the month in which your client is found eligible. ** See special rules about cost-sharing for QMBs below - updated with new CMS directive issued January 2012 ** See NYC HRA QMB Recertification form ** Even if you do not have Part A automatically, because you did not have enough wages, you may be able to enroll in the Part A Buy-In Program, in which people eligible for QMB who do not otherwise have Medicare Part A may enroll, with Medicaid paying the Part A premium (Materials by the Medicare Rights Center). 2.

Specifiedl Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB). For those with incomes between 100% and 120% FPL, the SLMB program will cover Part B premiums only. SLMB is retroactive, however, providing coverage for three months prior to the month of application, as long as your client was eligible during those months. 3.

Qualified Individual (QI-1). For those with incomes between 120% and 135% FPL, and not receiving Medicaid, the QI-1 program will cover Medicare Part B premiums only. QI-1 is also retroactive, providing coverage for three months prior to the month of application, as long as your client was eligible during those months. However, QI-1 retroactive coverage can only be provided within the current calendar year.

(GIS 07 MA 027) So if you apply in January, you get no retroactive coverage. Q-I-1 recipients would be eligible for Medicaid with a spend-down, but if they want the Part B premium paid, they must choose between enrolling in QI-1 or Medicaid. They cannot be in both. It is their choice.

DOH MRG p. 19. In contrast, one may receive Medicaid and either QMB or SLIMB. 4.

Four Special Benefits of MSPs (in addition to NO ASSET TEST). Benefit 1. Back Door to Medicare Part D "Extra Help" or Low Income Subsidy -- All MSP recipients are automatically enrolled in Extra Help, the subsidy that makes Part D affordable. They have no Part D deductible or doughnut hole, the premium is subsidized, and they pay very low copayments.

Once they are enrolled in Extra Help by virtue of enrollment in an MSP, they retain Extra Help for the entire calendar year, even if they lose MSP eligibility during that year. The "Full" Extra Help subsidy has the same income limit as QI-1 - 135% FPL. However, many people may be eligible for QI-1 but not Extra Help because QI-1 and the other MSPs have no asset limit. People applying to the Social Security Administration for Extra Help might be rejected for this reason.

Recent (2009-10) changes to federal law called "MIPPA" requires the Social Security Administration (SSA) to share eligibility data with NYSDOH on all persons who apply for Extra Help/ the Low Income Subsidy. Data sent to NYSDOH from SSA will enable NYSDOH to open MSP cases on many clients. The effective date of the MSP application must be the same date as the Extra Help application. Signatures will not be required from clients.

In cases where the SSA data is incomplete, NYSDOH will forward what is collected to the local district for completion of an MSP application. The State implementing procedures are in DOH 2010 ADM-03. Also see CMS "Dear State Medicaid Director" letter dated Feb. 18, 2010 Benefit 2.

MSPs Automatically Waive Late Enrollment Penalties for Part B Generally one must enroll in Part B within the strict enrollment periods after turning age 65 or after 24 months of Social Security Disability. An exception is if you or your spouse are still working and insured under an employer sponsored group health plan, or if you have End Stage Renal Disease, and other factors, see this from Medicare Rights Center. If you fail to enroll within those short periods, you might have to pay higher Part B premiums for life as a Late Enrollment Penalty (LEP). Also, you may only enroll in Part B during the Annual Enrollment Period from January 1 - March 31st each year, with Part B not effective until the following July.

Enrollment in an MSP automatically eliminates such penalties... For life.. Even if one later ceases to be eligible for the MSP. AND enrolling in an MSP will automatically result in becoming enrolled in Part B if you didn't already have it and only had Part A.

See Medicare Rights Center flyer. Benefit 3. No Medicaid Lien on Estate to Recover MSP Benefits Paid Generally speaking, states may place liens on the Estates of deceased Medicaid recipients to recover the cost of Medicaid services that were provided after the recipient reached the age of 55. Since 2002, states have not been allowed to recover the cost of Medicare premiums paid under MSPs.

In 2010, Congress expanded protection for MSP benefits. Beginning on January 1, 2010, states may not place liens on the Estates of Medicaid recipients who died after January 1, 2010 to recover costs for co-insurance paid under the QMB MSP program for services rendered after January 1, 2010. The federal government made this change in order to eliminate barriers to enrollment in MSPs. See NYS DOH GIS 10-MA-008 - Medicare Savings Program Changes in Estate Recovery The GIS clarifies that a client who receives both QMB and full Medicaid is exempt from estate recovery for these Medicare cost-sharing expenses.

Benefit 4. SNAP (Food Stamp) benefits not reduced despite increased income from MSP - at least temporarily Many people receive both SNAP (Food Stamp) benefits and MSP. Income for purposes of SNAP/Food Stamps is reduced by a deduction for medical expenses, which includes payment of the Part B premium. Since approval for an MSP means that the client no longer pays for the Part B premium, his/her SNAP/Food Stamps income goes up, so their SNAP/Food Stamps go down.

Here are some protections. Do these individuals have to report to their SNAP worker that their out of pocket medical costs have decreased?. And will the household see a reduction in their SNAP benefits, since the decrease in medical expenses will increase their countable income?. The good news is that MSP households do NOT have to report the decrease in their medical expenses to the SNAP/Food Stamp office until their next SNAP/Food Stamp recertification.

Even if they do report the change, or the local district finds out because the same worker is handling both the MSP and SNAP case, there should be no reduction in the household’s benefit until the next recertification. New York’s SNAP policy per administrative directive 02 ADM-07 is to “freeze” the deduction for medical expenses between certification periods. Increases in medical expenses can be budgeted at the household’s request, but NYS never decreases a household’s medical expense deduction until the next recertification. Most elderly and disabled households have 24-month SNAP certification periods.

Eventually, though, the decrease in medical expenses will need to be reported when the household recertifies for SNAP, and the household should expect to see a decrease in their monthly SNAP benefit. It is really important to stress that the loss in SNAP benefits is NOT dollar for dollar. A $100 decrease in out of pocket medical expenses would translate roughly into a $30 drop in SNAP benefits. See more info on SNAP/Food Stamp benefits by the Empire Justice Center, and on the State OTDA website.

Some clients will be automatically enrolled in an MSP by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) shortly after attaining eligibility for Medicare. Others need to apply. The 2010 "MIPPA" law introduced some improvements to increase MSP enrollment. See 3rd bullet below.

Also, some people who had Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act before they became eligible for Medicare have special procedures to have their Part B premium paid before they enroll in an MSP. See below. WHO IS AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED IN AN MSP. Clients receiving even $1.00 of Supplemental Security Income should be automatically enrolled into a Medicare Savings Program (most often QMB) under New York State’s Medicare Savings Program Buy-in Agreement with the federal government once they become eligible for Medicare.

They should receive Medicare Parts A and B. Clients who are already eligible for Medicare when they apply for Medicaid should be automatically assessed for MSP eligibility when they apply for Medicaid. (NYS DOH 2000-ADM-7 and GIS 05 MA 033). Clients who apply to the Social Security Administration for Extra Help, but are rejected, should be contacted &.

Enrolled into an MSP by the Medicaid program directly under new MIPPA procedures that require data sharing. Strategy TIP. Since the Extra Help filing date will be assigned to the MSP application, it may help the client to apply online for Extra Help with the SSA, even knowing that this application will be rejected because of excess assets or other reason. SSA processes these requests quickly, and it will be routed to the State for MSP processing.

Since MSP applications take a while, at least the filing date will be retroactive. Note. The above strategy does not work as well for QMB, because the effective date of QMB is the month after the month of application. As a result, the retroactive effective date of Extra Help will be the month after the failed Extra Help application for those with QMB rather than SLMB/QI-1.

Applying for MSP Directly with Local Medicaid Program. Those who do not have Medicaid already must apply for an MSP through their local social services district. (See more in Section D. Below re those who already have Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act before they became eligible for Medicare.

If you are applying for MSP only (not also Medicaid), you can use the simplified MSP application form (theDOH-4328(Rev. 8/2017-- English) (2017 Spanish version not yet available). Either application form can be mailed in -- there is no interview requirement anymore for MSP or Medicaid. See 10 ADM-04.

Applicants will need to submit proof of income, a copy of their Medicare card (front &. Back), and proof of residency/address. See the application form for other instructions. One who is only eligible for QI-1 because of higher income may ONLY apply for an MSP, not for Medicaid too.

One may not receive Medicaid and QI-1 at the same time. If someone only eligible for QI-1 wants Medicaid, s/he may enroll in and deposit excess income into a pooled Supplemental Needs Trust, to bring her countable income down to the Medicaid level, which also qualifies him or her for SLIMB or QMB instead of QI-1. Advocates in NYC can sign up for a half-day "Deputization Training" conducted by the Medicare Rights Center, at which you'll be trained and authorized to complete an MSP application and to submit it via the Medicare Rights Center, which submits it to HRA without the client having to apply in person. Enrolling in an MSP if you already have Medicaid, but just become eligible for Medicare Those who, prior to becoming enrolled in Medicare, had Medicaid through Affordable Care Act are eligible to have their Part B premiums paid by Medicaid (or the cost reimbursed) during the time it takes for them to transition to a Medicare Savings Program.

In 2018, DOH clarified that reimbursement of the Part B premium will be made regardless of whether the individual is still in a Medicaid managed care (MMC) plan. GIS 18 MA/001 Medicaid Managed Care Transition for Enrollees Gaining Medicare ( PDF) provides, "Due to efforts to transition individuals who gain Medicare eligibility and who require LTSS, individuals may not be disenrolled from MMC upon receipt of Medicare. To facilitate the transition and not disadvantage the recipient, the Medicaid program is approving reimbursement of Part B premiums for enrollees in MMC." The procedure for getting the Part B premium paid is different for those whose Medicaid was administered by the NYS of Health Exchange (Marketplace), as opposed to their local social services district. The procedure is also different for those who obtain Medicare because they turn 65, as opposed to obtaining Medicare based on disability.

Either way, Medicaid recipients who transition onto Medicare should be automatically evaluated for MSP eligibility at their next Medicaid recertification. NYS DOH 2000-ADM-7 Individuals can also affirmatively ask to be enrolled in MSP in between recertification periods. IF CLIENT HAD MEDICAID ON THE MARKETPLACE (NYS of Health Exchange) before obtaining Medicare. IF they obtain Medicare because they turn age 65, they will receive a letter from their local district asking them to "renew" Medicaid through their local district.

See 2014 LCM-02. Now, their Medicaid income limit will be lower than the MAGI limits ($842/ mo reduced from $1387/month) and they now will have an asset test. For this reason, some individuals may lose full Medicaid eligibility when they begin receiving Medicare. People over age 65 who obtain Medicare do NOT keep "Marketplace Medicaid" for 12 months (continuous eligibility) See GIS 15 MA/022 - Continuous Coverage for MAGI Individuals.

Since MSP has NO ASSET limit. Some individuals may be enrolled in the MSP even if they lose Medicaid, or if they now have a Medicaid spend-down. If a Medicare/Medicaid recipient reports income that exceeds the Medicaid level, districts must evaluate the person’s eligibility for MSP. 08 OHIP/ADM-4 ​If you became eligible for Medicare based on disability and you are UNDER AGE 65, you are entitled to keep MAGI Medicaid for 12 months from the month it was last authorized, even if you now have income normally above the MAGI limit, and even though you now have Medicare.

This is called Continuous Eligibility. EXAMPLE. Sam, age 60, was last authorized for Medicaid on the Marketplace in June 2016. He became enrolled in Medicare based on disability in August 2016, and started receiving Social Security in the same month (he won a hearing approving Social Security disability benefits retroactively, after first being denied disability).

Even though his Social Security is too high, he can keep Medicaid for 12 months beginning June 2016. Sam has to pay for his Part B premium - it is deducted from his Social Security check. He may call the Marketplace and request a refund. This will continue until the end of his 12 months of continues MAGI Medicaid eligibility.

He will be reimbursed regardless of whether he is in a Medicaid managed care plan. See GIS 18 MA/001 Medicaid Managed Care Transition for Enrollees Gaining Medicare (PDF) When that ends, he will renew Medicaid and apply for MSP with his local district. Individuals who are eligible for Medicaid with a spenddown can opt whether or not to receive MSP. (Medicaid Reference Guide (MRG) p.

19). Obtaining MSP may increase their spenddown. MIPPA - Outreach by Social Security Administration -- Under MIPPA, the SSA sends a form letter to people who may be eligible for a Medicare Savings Program or Extra Help (Low Income Subsidy - LIS) that they may apply. The letters are.

· Beneficiary has Extra Help (LIS), but not MSP · Beneficiary has no Extra Help (LIS) or MSP 6. Enrolling in MSP for People Age 65+ who do Not have Free Medicare Part A - the "Part A Buy-In Program" Seniors WITHOUT MEDICARE PART A or B -- They may be able to enroll in the Part A Buy-In program, in which people eligible for QMB who are age 65+ who do not otherwise have Medicare Part A may enroll in Part A, with Medicaid paying the Part A premium. See Step-by-Step Guide by the Medicare Rights Center). This guide explains the various steps in "conditionally enrolling" in Part A at the SSA office, which must be done before applying for QMB at the Medicaid office, which will then pay the Part A premium.

See also GIS 04 MA/013. In June, 2018, the SSA revised the POMS manual procedures for the Part A Buy-In to to address inconsistencies and confusion in SSA field offices and help smooth the path for QMB enrollment. The procedures are in the POMS Section HI 00801.140 "Premium-Free Part A Enrollments for Qualified Medicare BenefiIaries." It includes important clarifications, such as. SSA Field Offices should explain the QMB program and conditional enrollment process if an individual lacks premium-free Part A and appears to meet QMB requirements.

SSA field offices can add notes to the “Remarks” section of the application and provide a screen shot to the individual so the individual can provide proof of conditional Part A enrollment when applying for QMB through the state Medicaid program. Beneficiaries are allowed to complete the conditional application even if they owe Medicare premiums. In Part A Buy-in states like NYS, SSA should process conditional applications on a rolling basis (without regard to enrollment periods), even if the application coincides with the General Enrollment Period. (The General Enrollment Period is from Jan 1 to March 31st every year, in which anyone eligible may enroll in Medicare Part A or Part B to be effective on July 1st).

7. What happens after the MSP approval - How is Part B premium paid For all three MSP programs, the Medicaid program is now responsible for paying the Part B premiums, even though the MSP enrollee is not necessarily a recipient of Medicaid. The local Medicaid office (DSS/HRA) transmits the MSP approval to the NYS Department of Health – that information gets shared w/ SSA and CMS SSA stops deducting the Part B premiums out of the beneficiary’s Social Security check. SSA also refunds any amounts owed to the recipient.

) CMS “deems” the MSP recipient eligible for Part D Extra Help/ Low Income Subsidy (LIS). ​Can the MSP be retroactive like Medicaid, back to 3 months before the application?. ​The answer is different for the 3 MSP programs. QMB -No Retroactive Eligibility – Benefits begin the month after the month of the MSP application.

18 NYCRR § 360-7.8(b)(5) SLIMB - YES - Retroactive Eligibility up to 3 months before the application, if was eligible This means applicant may be reimbursed for the 3 months of Part B benefits prior to the month of application. QI-1 - YES up to 3 months but only in the same calendar year. No retroactive eligibility to the previous year. 7.

QMBs -Special Rules on Cost-Sharing. QMB is the only MSP program which pays not only the Part B premium, but also the Medicare co-insurance. However, there are limitations. First, co-insurance will only be paid if the provide accepts Medicaid.

Not all Medicare provides accept Medicaid. Second, under recent changes in New York law, Medicaid will not always pay the Medicare co-insurance, even to a Medicaid provider. But even if the provider does not accept Medicaid, or if Medicaid does not pay the full co-insurance, the provider is banned from "balance billing" the QMB beneficiary for the co-insurance. Click here for an article that explains all of these rules.

This article was authored by the Empire Justice Center.THE PROBLEM. Meet Joe, whose Doctor has Billed him for the Medicare Coinsurance Joe Client is disabled and has SSD, Medicaid and Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB). His health care is covered by Medicare, and Medicaid and the QMB program pick up his Medicare cost-sharing obligations. Under Medicare Part B, his co-insurance is 20% of the Medicare-approved charge for most outpatient services.

He went to the doctor recently and, as with any other Medicare beneficiary, the doctor handed him a bill for his co-pay. Now Joe has a bill that he can’t pay. Read below to find out -- SHORT ANSWER. QMB or Medicaid will pay the Medicare coinsurance only in limited situations.

First, the provider must be a Medicaid provider. Second, even if the provider accepts Medicaid, under recent legislation in New York enacted in 2015 and 2016, QMB or Medicaid may pay only part of the coinsurance, or none at all. This depends in part on whether the beneficiary has Original Medicare or is in a Medicare Advantage plan, and in part on the type of service. However, the bottom line is that the provider is barred from "balance billing" a QMB beneficiary for the Medicare coinsurance.

Unfortunately, this creates tension between an individual and her doctors, pharmacies dispensing Part B medications, and other providers. Providers may not know they are not allowed to bill a QMB beneficiary for Medicare coinsurance, since they bill other Medicare beneficiaries. Even those who know may pressure their patients to pay, or simply decline to serve them. These rights and the ramifications of these QMB rules are explained in this article.

CMS is doing more education about QMB Rights. The Medicare Handbook, since 2017, gives information about QMB Protections. Download the 2020 Medicare Handbook here. See pp.

53, 86. 1. To Which Providers will QMB or Medicaid Pay the Medicare Co-Insurance?. "Providers must enroll as Medicaid providers in order to bill Medicaid for the Medicare coinsurance." CMS Informational Bulletin issued January 6, 2012, titled "Billing for Services Provided to Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMBs).

The CMS bulletin states, "If the provider wants Medicaid to pay the coinsurance, then the provider must register as a Medicaid provider under the state rules." If the provider chooses not to enroll as a Medicaid provider, they still may not "balance bill" the QMB recipient for the coinsurance. 2. How Does a Provider that DOES accept Medicaid Bill for a QMB Beneficiary?. If beneficiary has Original Medicare -- The provider bills Medicaid - even if the QMB Beneficiary does not also have Medicaid.

Medicaid is required to pay the provider for all Medicare Part A and B cost-sharing charges, even if the service is normally not covered by Medicaid (ie, chiropractic, podiatry and clinical social work care). Whatever reimbursement Medicaid pays the provider constitutes by law payment in full, and the provider cannot bill the beneficiary for any difference remaining. 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(n)(3)(A), NYS DOH 2000-ADM-7 If the QMB beneficiary is in a Medicare Advantage plan - The provider bills the Medicare Advantage plan, then bills Medicaid for the balance using a “16” code to get paid.

The provider must include the amount it received from Medicare Advantage plan. 3. For a Provider who accepts Medicaid, How Much of the Medicare Coinsurance will be Paid for a QMB or Medicaid Beneficiary in NYS?. The answer to this question has changed by laws enacted in 2015 and 2016.

In the proposed 2019 State Budget, Gov. Cuomo has proposed to reduce how much Medicaid pays for the Medicare costs even further. The amount Medicaid pays is different depending on whether the individual has Original Medicare or is a Medicare Advantage plan, with better payment for those in Medicare Advantage plans. The answer also differs based on the type of service.

Part A Deductibles and Coinsurance - Medicaid pays the full Part A hospital deductible ($1,408 in 2020) and Skilled Nursing Facility coinsurance ($176/day) for days 20 - 100 of a rehab stay. Full payment is made for QMB beneficiaries and Medicaid recipients who have no spend-down. Payments are reduced if the beneficiary has a Medicaid spend-down. For in-patient hospital deductible, Medicaid will pay only if six times the monthly spend-down has been met.

For example, if Mary has a $200/month spend down which has not been met otherwise, Medicaid will pay only $164 of the hospital deductible (the amount exceeding 6 x $200). See more on spend-down here. Medicare Part B - Deductible - Currently, Medicaid pays the full Medicare approved charges until the beneficiary has met the annual deductible, which is $198 in 2020. For example, Dr.

John charges $500 for a visit, for which the Medicare approved charge is $198. Medicaid pays the entire $198, meeting the deductible. If the beneficiary has a spend-down, then the Medicaid payment would be subject to the spend-down. In the 2019 proposed state budget, Gov.

Cuomo proposed to reduce the amount Medicaid pays toward the deductible to the same amount paid for coinsurance during the year, described below. This proposal was REJECTED by the state legislature. Co-Insurance - The amount medicaid pays in NYS is different for Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage. If individual has Original Medicare, QMB/Medicaid will pay the 20% Part B coinsurance only to the extent the total combined payment the provider receives from Medicare and Medicaid is the lesser of the Medicaid or Medicare rate for the service.

For example, if the Medicare rate for a service is $100, the coinsurance is $20. If the Medicaid rate for the same service is only $80 or less, Medicaid would pay nothing, as it would consider the doctor fully paid = the provider has received the full Medicaid rate, which is lesser than the Medicare rate. Exceptions - Medicaid/QMB wil pay the full coinsurance for the following services, regardless of the Medicaid rate. ambulance and psychologists - The Gov's 2019 proposal to eliminate these exceptions was rejected.

hospital outpatient clinic, certain facilities operating under certificates issued under the Mental Hygiene Law for people with developmental disabilities, psychiatric disability, and chemical dependence (Mental Hygiene Law Articles 16, 31 or 32). SSL 367-a, subd. 1(d)(iii)-(v) , as amended 2015 If individual is in a Medicare Advantage plan, 85% of the copayment will be paid to the provider (must be a Medicaid provider), regardless of how low the Medicaid rate is. This limit was enacted in the 2016 State Budget, and is better than what the Governor proposed - which was the same rule used in Original Medicare -- NONE of the copayment or coinsurance would be paid if the Medicaid rate was lower than the Medicare rate for the service, which is usually the case.

This would have deterred doctors and other providers from being willing to treat them. SSL 367-a, subd. 1(d)(iv), added 2016. EXCEPTIONS.

The Medicare Advantage plan must pay the full coinsurance for the following services, regardless of the Medicaid rate. ambulance ) psychologist ) The Gov's proposal in the 2019 budget to eliminate these exceptions was rejected by the legislature Example to illustrate the current rules. The Medicare rate for Mary's specialist visit is $185. The Medicaid rate for the same service is $120.

Current rules (since 2016). Medicare Advantage -- Medicare Advantage plan pays $135 and Mary is charged a copayment of $50 (amount varies by plan). Medicaid pays the specialist 85% of the $50 copayment, which is $42.50. The doctor is prohibited by federal law from "balance billing" QMB beneficiaries for the balance of that copayment.

Since provider is getting $177.50 of the $185 approved rate, provider will hopefully not be deterred from serving Mary or other QMBs/Medicaid recipients. Original Medicare - The 20% coinsurance is $37. Medicaid pays none of the coinsurance because the Medicaid rate ($120) is lower than the amount the provider already received from Medicare ($148). For both Medicare Advantage and Original Medicare, if the bill was for a ambulance or psychologist, Medicaid would pay the full 20% coinsurance regardless of the Medicaid rate.

The proposal to eliminate this exception was rejected by the legislature in 2019 budget. . 4. May the Provider 'Balance Bill" a QMB Benficiary for the Coinsurance if Provider Does Not Accept Medicaid, or if Neither the Patient or Medicaid/QMB pays any coinsurance?.

No. Balance billing is banned by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(n)(3)(A).

In an Informational Bulletin issued January 6, 2012, titled "Billing for Services Provided to Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMBs)," the federal Medicare agency - CMS - clarified that providers MAY NOT BILL QMB recipients for the Medicare coinsurance. This is true whether or not the provider is registered as a Medicaid provider. If the provider wants Medicaid to pay the coinsurance, then the provider must register as a Medicaid provider under the state rules. This is a change in policy in implementing Section 1902(n)(3)(B) of the Social Security Act (the Act), as modified by section 4714 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which prohibits Medicare providers from balance-billing QMBs for Medicare cost-sharing.

The CMS letter states, "All Medicare physicians, providers, and suppliers who offer services and supplies to QMBs are prohibited from billing QMBs for Medicare cost-sharing, including deductible, coinsurance, and copayments. This section of the Act is available at. CMCS Informational Bulletin http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title19/1902.htm. QMBs have no legal obligation to make further payment to a provider or Medicare managed care plan for Part A or Part B cost sharing.

Providers who inappropriately bill QMBs for Medicare cost-sharing are subject to sanctions. Please note that the statute referenced above supersedes CMS State Medicaid Manual, Chapter 3, Eligibility, 3490.14 (b), which is no longer in effect, but may be causing confusion about QMB billing." The same information was sent to providers in this Medicare Learning Network bulletin, last revised in June 26, 2018. CMS reminded Medicare Advantage plans of the rule against Balance Billing in the 2017 Call Letter for plan renewals. See this excerpt of the 2017 call letter by Justice in Aging - Prohibition on Billing Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees for Medicare Cost Sharing 5.

How do QMB Beneficiaries Show a Provider that they have QMB and cannot be Billed for the Coinsurance?. It can be difficult to show a provider that one is a QMB. It is especially difficult for providers who are not Medicaid providers to identify QMB's, since they do not have access to online Medicaid eligibility systems Consumers can now call 1-800-MEDICARE to verify their QMB Status and report a billing issue. If a consumer reports a balance billng problem to this number, the Customer Service Rep can escalate the complaint to the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), which will send a compliance letter to the provider with a copy to the consumer.

See CMS Medicare Learning Network Bulletin effective Dec. 16, 2016. Medicare Summary Notices (MSNs) that Medicare beneficiaries receive every three months state that QMBs have no financial liability for co-insurance for each Medicare-covered service listed on the MSN. The Remittance Advice (RA) that Medicare sends to providers shows the same information.

By spelling out billing protections on a service-by-service basis, the MSNs provide clarity for both the QMB beneficiary and the provider. Justice in Aging has posted samples of what the new MSNs look like here. They have also updated Justice in Aging’s Improper Billing Toolkit to incorporate references to the MSNs in its model letters that you can use to advocate for clients who have been improperly billed for Medicare-covered services. CMS is implementing systems changes that will notify providers when they process a Medicare claim that the patient is QMB and has no cost-sharing liability.

The Medicare Summary Notice sent to the beneficiary will also state that the beneficiary has QMB and no liability. These changes were scheduled to go into effect in October 2017, but have been delayed. Read more about them in this Justice in Aging Issue Brief on New Strategies in Fighting Improper Billing for QMBs (Feb. 2017).

QMBs are issued a Medicaid benefit card (by mail), even if they do not also receive Medicaid. The card is the mechanism for health care providers to bill the QMB program for the Medicare deductibles and co-pays. Unfortunately, the Medicaid card dos not indicate QMB eligibility. Not all people who have Medicaid also have QMB (they may have higher incomes and "spend down" to the Medicaid limits.

Advocates have asked for a special QMB card, or a notation on the Medicaid card to show that the individual has QMB. See this Report - a National Survey on QMB Identification Practices published by Justice in Aging, authored by Peter Travitsky, NYLAG EFLRP staff attorney. The Report, published in March 2017, documents how QMB beneficiaries could be better identified in order to ensure providers do not bill them improperly. 6.

If you are Billed -​ Strategies Consumers can now call 1-800-MEDICARE to report a billing issue.

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The High Court said:It is highly unlikely that a child aged 13 or under would be competent to give zithromax 250mg consent to the administration of puberty blockers. It is doubtful that a child aged 14 or 15 could understand and weigh the long-term risks and consequences of the administration of puberty blockers (p151).2Since then, the Journal of Medical Ethics has published papers about the ethical issues raised by that judgment. Beattie, writing at the time the judgment was made, disagreed with the High Court and claimed that the zithromax 250mg decision to take puberty blockers is no more complex than many of the other medical decisions that minors are assessed as being competent to make.3 Central to the High Court’s decision was the claim that the decision to start PB therapy (the first stage of therapy for GD) is inextricably linked to the more permanent and significant, cross-sex hormone (CSH) therapy.

That meant the abilities required to fully understand what was proposed became very demanding because they would require someone who had not yet gone through puberty to know what a second round of treatment, that would result in permanent and complex changes, would mean for them. Beattie objects to that claim for several reasons including that ‘…high progression rates to CSH may merely represent successful identification of persistent GD, rather than PBs promoting persistence’ (p4).Giordano et al consider the possibility that consenting to PB might be more complex than other treatments a zithromax 250mg minor might consent to.4 They point out that many other medical decisions are similarly complex and emotionally involving, so PB should not be viewed differently from other decisions a minor might take.The High Court’s judgment was recently overturned by the Court of Appeal who criticised the judgment on a number of grounds, including the implications that it would have for those seeking therapy for GD.Moreover, the effect of the guidance was to require applications to the court in circumstances where the Divisional Court itself had recognised that there was no legal obligation to do so. It placed patients, parents and clinicians in a very difficult position.

In practice the guidance would have the effect of denying treatment in many circumstances for want of resources to make such an application coupled with zithromax 250mg inevitable delay through court involvement (p86).5While some might read that as an ethical point about access to therapy, the Court of Appeal is making a legal point about when it is appropriate for the court to become involved and the costs of them doing so. That kind of concern continues where they object to the court making age-based recommendations about the likely ability of young people to consent.We conclude that it was inappropriate for the Divisional Court to give the guidance concerning when a court application will be appropriate and to reach general age-related conclusions about the likelihood or probability of different cohorts of children being capable of giving consent (p89).5Predictably, the Court of Appeal judgment has been hailed as ‘a positive step forwards for trans rights in the UK and around the world’.6 It is important to be clear, though, about exactly what was and what was not an issue here. The court was careful not to take a position on the debate zithromax 250mg about PBs.

It recognised that this is an ongoing controversy zithromax 250mg. €˜The present proceedings do not require the courts to determine whether the treatment for GD is a wise or unwise course’.5Furthermore, there is nothing in the judgment about how often minors seeking access to PBs will be assessed as competent to make that decision, nor about what they will need to demonstrate in order to show that competence.As we have already said, the principle enunciated in Gillick was that it was for clinicians rather than the court to decide on competence (p87).5The point is precisely that it is not appropriate for courts to involve themselves in such matters. It will be for zithromax 250mg clinicians to make that determination.

There is nothing inherent to the nature of PBs that set them apart from other healthcare decisions, nothing that justifies the court intruding on what is a well-recognised area of clinical expertise.Certainly, it is not for the court to require that young people accept as matters of fact propositions that are currently factually contested or complex, such as the claim that PBs almost always serve as precursors to ‘much greater medical interventions’. And it is not for the court to issue guidance, in general terms, about when capacity assessments should require judicial intervention.There was a recognition here that this is a ‘difficult and controversial area’, where facts are contested and deep-seated values set in conflict zithromax 250mg. But as the court acknowledged, the concept of ‘Gillick competence’ arose in a context where that could also have been said of the provision of contraceptives to minors.

Generalisations about capacity assessment were no more appropriate here than they were back in that earlier context.Ethics statementsPatient consent for publicationNot required.IntroductionIn the last decade there has zithromax 250mg been a marked increase in patients labelled with pre-diabetes in the UK.1 The ‘diagnosis’ of pre-diabetes is made on the basis of a patient having one or more markers of abnormal blood glucose. Levels are higher than normal but have not reached the threshold where the patient gets diagnosed as diabetic. Patients with blood sugar levels in a pre-diabetic zithromax 250mg range are asymptomatic and disease free.

The rationale behind labelling patients as pre-diabetic is that patients with pre-diabetes are at higher risk of going on to develop type 2 diabetes.2 Type 2 diabetes can cause significant mortality and morbidity.3 There is evidence that lifestyle change (altered diet and increased physical activity) in patients with pre-diabetes can prevent progression to diabetes.4 Although patients may be labelled as ‘pre-diabetic’, and this might look like a diagnosis of a pathological condition, pre-diabetes is a risk factor for the development of diabetes, not a disease in its own right.5Pre-diabetes is highly prevalent in Western countries. Its prevalence rises with age, zithromax 250mg and by age 75 years nearly 50% of the population in the USA is classified as pre-diabetic or diabetic.6 7 However, not all patients with pre-diabetes will develop diabetes. The risk zithromax 250mg of a person with pre-diabetes progressing to diabetes within 12 months is between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20.8 This annual conversion rate drops even lower as patients age.9 A 12-year follow-up of older adults with pre-diabetes, showed most remained stable or reverted to normal blood sugar levels, whereas only one‐third developed diabetes or died.10If a person develops diabetes, they do not automatically develop symptoms or complications.

Complications, such as retinopathy and renal disease, develop over time and are more likely to occur the longer a patient has suffered with diabetes.11 Therefore, if a patient is approaching the end of their life, developing type 2 diabetes may have no direct impact on their health or quality of life.In order for a patient to eventually benefit from the label of pre-diabetes they must fulfil three criteria. They must:Be in the group of patients that are going to convert from pre-diabetes to diabetes.Be in the group of patients that are going to develop symptoms or complications of diabetes.Be in the group of patients for whom lifestyle changes or medication can prevent the conversion from pre-diabetes to diabetes.If a zithromax 250mg patient does not belong to all three of these groups then labelling them as pre-diabetic will not confer any benefit to them. As conversion rates from pre-diabetes to diabetes reduce as a person ages and shortening life expectancy (which inevitably comes with ageing) reduces the risk of developing complications from diabetes, there is going to be a point in any patient’s life, even assuming that lifestyle changes could prevent progression to diabetes, where a patient will not benefit from knowing they have pre-diabetes.

Calculating the exact age at which that will occur for an individual patient is problematic but certain general principles can be established to help clinicians decide on the benefit of labelling.This paper explores the pros and cons of a pre-diabetes label and a pragmatic zithromax 250mg ethical approach that could be taken by clinicians when faced with a new unanticipated pre-diabetic blood result that has been discovered through ‘routine’ blood tests.What are the harms of a pre-diabetes label?. The treatment for pre-diabetes is, in essence, adopting a healthier diet and taking more exercise. If adopted and maintained, these zithromax 250mg lifestyle changes are likely to benefit most patients in multiple aspects of health, not just their risk of developing diabetes.

However, although they may slightly delay the point at which a patient develops diabetes, studies of lifestyle-based diabetes prevention programmes show that most patients do not or cannot maintain long-term lifestyle changes.5 12 Weight loss is generally short term or minimal and patients usually slip back into old habits and routines. While there is undoubtedly an argument for informing younger patients who may receive a benefit from knowing they have pre-diabetes, the harms of informing increase with age.Many elderly patients with comorbidities may zithromax 250mg struggle to increase physical activity. Dietary change and attempts to lose weight after a certain age can have detrimental health effects13 Labelling somebody as having a medical condition carries a psychological burden in itself, and being unable to engage in the behaviour change recommended may also have negative consequences, that is, engendering a feeling of being ‘a failure’.14–16 If the label leads to further follow-up this may also place a burden on patients.

There are also considerable implications for the use zithromax 250mg of health resources if the labelling of individuals as pre-diabetic requires further follow-up and intervention. Annual blood tests are standard (£6.42), subsequent general practitioner (GP) or nurse (£30) appointments to discuss results frequently take place as do referrals on to the national Diabetes Prevention Programme (£270).17 There are roughly 3 million people in the UK aged zithromax 250mg 80 years or over.18 If one-third of them have pre-diabetes and, of those, half have an annual blood test, a quarter have a GP appointment and one in eight get referred to the National Health Service (NHS) Diabetes Prevention Programme that is an annual cost of around £37 million.What is ideal practice and what is the reality?. While some patients may have been tested following screening for being at risk of diabetes, in the UK most patients in whom pre-diabetes is diagnosed have blood sugar level tests carried out as part of a battery of other blood tests that are performed as part of annual chronic disease monitoring for conditions such as hypertension.19 The contents of the battery are determined by individual practices and usually based on guidance and payment targets issued by the NHS.20 In theory, a patient should give informed consent before any test, including blood sugar and HbA1c testing.

In reality many patients who are given a diagnosis of pre-diabetes are unaware that they had blood tests for diabetes/pre-diabetes.19 When checking blood glucose or HbA1c in an elderly patient, especially one without symptoms of diabetes, the clinician zithromax 250mg should talk through with them the potential outcomes of the test and the implications this may have to them. The patient can then make an informed decision as to whether they want to go ahead with testing or not. In routine clinical practice in the UK this zithromax 250mg happens rarely, if at all.

This is likely due to the volume of blood testing, the automated nature http://alohafromoahu.com/41/ of the process, the limited time a clinician has to devote to each individual patient and the priority that individual clinicians assign to such conversations.As we discussed in a recent paper a more individualised approach to ‘routine’ blood tests needs to be taken.19 The utility of each test should be gauged for each patient as an individual, not as the average patient that has a particular disease. The reality, however, is that this change will, at best, be adopted zithromax 250mg slowly or, at worst, not at all. What then, should clinicians who are presented with a pre-diabetic blood result in an elderly patient do?.

The see-saw zithromax 250mg model of paternalismWhen faced with a series of test results for a patient, clinicians exercise judgement about what they consider ‘normal’ or ‘satisfactory’. They also exercise judgement in what they communicate to the patient about the results. In certain circumstances a patient may, for instance, have a mildly raised bilirubin zithromax 250mg or mildly decreased albumin and the clinician may file the result as ‘satisfactory’ and not inform the patient.

Is this an act of paternalism or is it the act of zithromax 250mg a clinician filtering out the ‘noise’ that is generated from carrying out tests and using an individual patient’s circumstances to contextualise what is ‘normal’?. Should clinicians, therefore, assume that all new pre-diabetic blood results above a certain age should not be disclosed to patients?. This is obviously an indefensible position zithromax 250mg as a general policy since patients have a right to information that concerns their health.

However, while the blood result may be a factual piece of data, the labelling of a result as ‘satisfactory’, ‘acceptable’ or ‘abnormal’ is a clinical judgement. There is, in most circumstances, a moral obligation on the clinician to disclose to a patient that they are suffering with a disease zithromax 250mg. Pre-diabetes is not a disease and unless a patient fulfils the three criteria set out in the introduction to this paper the information is not likely to benefit the patient.In younger patients, where the criteria related to a significant likelihood of progressing to diabetes with negative health effects are likely to be fulfilled, there is an onus on the clinician to inform patients they have pre-diabetes.

In many younger patients it will be difficult to judge whether they fulfil the third criterion and zithromax 250mg can successfully change their lifestyle. In these cases the likely benefits of ‘diagnosis’ outweigh any potential drawback. However, as a patient ages and develops certain other comorbidities, a tipping point is reached where the criteria are very unlikely to zithromax 250mg be fulfilled and the harms of a ‘diagnosis’ will outweigh any potential benefits.

At that point informing the patient becomes harmful and should arguably only be done if the patient explicitly requests the information.Rather than having a full discussion of the pros and cons of a pre-diabetes label with each patient we would advocate a ‘see-saw’ model of paternalist considerations. Younger fitter patients are automatically zithromax 250mg informed of their pre-diabetes whether or not they have requested the information explicitly while those who are very elderly and have comorbidities and a limited life expectancy are not informed. In the middle is the group of patients for whom paternalism either way is not appropriate because the benefits and harms of a ‘diagnosis’ are zithromax 250mg uncertain.

These patients in the middle of the see-saw are those for whom an in-depth discussion about the relevance and meaning of ‘pre-diabetes’ to them as an individual needs to take place, and also those patients where the blood test most strongly ought to have been discussed before it was performed.It could be argued that a drawback to this approach is the effect that it may have on patient–physician trust. In modern medicine patients are frequently seen by multiple clinicians zithromax 250mg. Clinician one may choose, quite ethically, not to reveal to a patient that they are pre-diabetic.

The patient may then see clinician two who tells them zithromax 250mg. This could then create a situation where the patient loses trust in clinician one and, indeed, the whole medical profession. However, pre-diabetes zithromax 250mg is not a disease state.

The non-disclosure of pre-diabetes is markedly different to the non-disclosure of a disease. If the patient understands that clinician one did not disclose to them because pre-diabetes is a risk factor that is not relevant to them, and not a disease, then, hopefully, there would be no zithromax 250mg loss of trust. In primary care in the UK, there is frequently non-disclosure of other ‘pre’ conditions, such as chronic kidney disease.21 This non-disclosure takes place where the condition is of relevance to the patient and full disclosure would, generally, be in the best interest of the patient.

This is ethically and professionally zithromax 250mg problematic. However, the response of patients who find out about zithromax 250mg non-disclosure in these cases is of interest. When interviewed, the response of patients to finding out about these non-disclosures is nuanced and varied.21 It does need lead to automatic loss of trust in the medical profession.Wider use of this approach?.

The purpose of the paper is to outline principles that could be applied, zithromax 250mg in an ethical manner to an unexpected blood test result of pre-diabetes. In theory, the principles outlined could be more widely applicable in other pre-conditions and other risk factors. To be applicable, a condition must have a fairly predictable trajectory, have a zithromax 250mg point where ‘pre-disease’ becomes ‘actual disease’ and be potentially reversible (or delayable).

The principles could possibly be applied to early chronic kidney disease or early hypertension but may not be appropriate for other conditions or risk factors. The difficulty in other conditions is predicting whether a patient is going to convert from a pre-condition to a disease zithromax 250mg state, predicting when they are going to convert and predicting whether this is going to cause harm. In these cases, where there is doubt, this should always be discussed fully with the patient.ConclusionWe have outlined a pragmatic ethical approach that can be used to guide a clinician when deciding how to manage an unexpected pre-diabetic blood result in an elderly patient.

We argue that, while patients should have full access to all information and test results, pre-diabetes is a risk state, not a disease, and is only of relevance to patients that fulfil certain zithromax 250mg criteria. While the individual characteristics of each patient should always be considered, in general, those patients that do not fulfil these criteria should not be burdened or potentially harmed by being labelled. Where there zithromax 250mg is any doubt about the harms and benefits of a pre-diabetes label, full disclosure and open discussion should take place with the patient.

This will help avoid a situation where trust in the medical profession is eroded when a patient finds out at a later date that they ‘had pre-diabetes’ and were not informed.Data availability statementThere are no data in this work.Ethics statementsPatient consent for publicationNot required..

Lord Scarman’s judgment about when someone under the http://www.em-ried-hoenheim.site.ac-strasbourg.fr/classes/salle-4-mme-alter/periode-3/carnaval/ age of 16 years should have the right to make where can i buy zithromax over the counter their own medical decisions emphasised the decision-making abilities of the particular child. He said:…the parental right to determine whether or not their minor child below the age of 16 will have medical treatment terminates if and when the child achieves a sufficient understanding and intelligence to enable him or her to understand fully what is proposed (p188–189).1That created a duty on healthcare practitioners to assess whether a particular minor has decision-making abilities at a degree that would enable where can i buy zithromax over the counter them to understand the decision to a high extent, sufficient hopefully that they would ‘own’ the decision. In December of 2020, the High Court considered whether young people with gender dysphoria (GD) and seeking access to puberty blocking (PB) therapy, were likely to pass Scarman’s mature minor test and cast doubt on their ability to fully understand that decision, thereby making it less likely that a healthcare practitioner would decide they are a mature minor for that therapy. The High Court said:It is highly unlikely that a child aged 13 or under where can i buy zithromax over the counter would be competent to give consent to the administration of puberty blockers. It is doubtful that a child aged 14 or 15 could understand and weigh the long-term risks and consequences of the administration of puberty blockers (p151).2Since then, the Journal of Medical Ethics has published papers about the ethical issues raised by that judgment.

Beattie, writing at the time the judgment was made, disagreed with the High Court and claimed that the decision to take puberty blockers is where can i buy zithromax over the counter no more complex than many of the other medical decisions that minors are assessed as being competent to make.3 Central to the High Court’s decision was the claim that the decision to start PB therapy (the first stage of therapy for GD) is inextricably linked to the more permanent and significant, cross-sex hormone (CSH) therapy. That meant the abilities required to fully understand what was proposed became very demanding because they would require someone who had not yet gone through puberty to know what a second round of treatment, that would result in permanent and complex changes, would mean for them. Beattie objects to that claim for several where can i buy zithromax over the counter reasons including that ‘…high progression rates to CSH may merely represent successful identification of persistent GD, rather than PBs promoting persistence’ (p4).Giordano et al consider the possibility that consenting to PB might be more complex than other treatments a minor might consent to.4 They point out that many other medical decisions are similarly complex and emotionally involving, so PB should not be viewed differently from other decisions a minor might take.The High Court’s judgment was recently overturned by the Court of Appeal who criticised the judgment on a number of grounds, including the implications that it would have for those seeking therapy for GD.Moreover, the effect of the guidance was to require applications to the court in circumstances where the Divisional Court itself had recognised that there was no legal obligation to do so. It placed patients, parents and clinicians in a very difficult position. In practice the guidance would have the effect of denying treatment in many circumstances for want where can i buy zithromax over the counter of resources to make such an application coupled with inevitable delay through court involvement (p86).5While some might read that as an ethical point about access to therapy, the Court of Appeal is making a legal point about when it is appropriate for the court to become involved and the costs of them doing so.

That kind of concern continues where they object to the court making age-based recommendations about the likely ability of young people to consent.We conclude that it was inappropriate for the Divisional Court to give the guidance concerning when a court application will be appropriate and to reach general age-related conclusions about the likelihood or probability of different cohorts of children being capable of giving consent (p89).5Predictably, the Court of Appeal judgment has been hailed as ‘a positive step forwards for trans rights in the UK and around the world’.6 It is important to be clear, though, about exactly what was and what was not an issue here. The court was careful not where can i buy zithromax over the counter to take a position on the debate about PBs. It recognised where can i buy zithromax over the counter that this is an ongoing controversy. €˜The present proceedings do not require the courts to determine whether the treatment for GD is a wise or unwise course’.5Furthermore, there is nothing in the judgment about how often minors seeking access to PBs will be assessed as competent to make that decision, nor about what they will need to demonstrate in order to show that competence.As we have already said, the principle enunciated in Gillick was that it was for clinicians rather than the court to decide on competence (p87).5The point is precisely that it is not appropriate for courts to involve themselves in such matters. It will be for clinicians to make that determination where can i buy zithromax over the counter.

There is nothing inherent to the nature of PBs that set them apart from other healthcare decisions, nothing that justifies the court intruding on what is a well-recognised area of clinical expertise.Certainly, it is not for the court to require that young people accept as matters of fact propositions that are currently factually contested or complex, such as the claim that PBs almost always serve as precursors to ‘much greater medical interventions’. And it is not for the court to issue guidance, in general terms, about when capacity assessments should require judicial intervention.There was a recognition here that this is where can i buy zithromax over the counter a ‘difficult and controversial area’, where facts are contested and deep-seated values set in conflict. But as the court acknowledged, the concept of ‘Gillick competence’ arose in a context where that could also have been said of the provision of contraceptives to minors. Generalisations about capacity assessment were no more appropriate here than they were back in that earlier context.Ethics statementsPatient consent for publicationNot required.IntroductionIn the last decade there has been a marked increase in patients labelled with pre-diabetes in the UK.1 The ‘diagnosis’ of pre-diabetes is made on the basis of a patient having one or more markers where can i buy zithromax over the counter of abnormal blood glucose. Levels are higher than normal but have not reached the threshold where the patient gets diagnosed as diabetic.

Patients with blood sugar levels in a where can i buy zithromax over the counter pre-diabetic range are asymptomatic and disease free. The rationale behind labelling patients as pre-diabetic is that patients with pre-diabetes are at higher risk of going on to develop type 2 diabetes.2 Type 2 diabetes can cause significant mortality and morbidity.3 There is evidence that lifestyle change (altered diet and increased physical activity) in patients with pre-diabetes can prevent progression to diabetes.4 Although patients may be labelled as ‘pre-diabetic’, and this might look like a diagnosis of a pathological condition, pre-diabetes is a risk factor for the development of diabetes, not a disease in its own right.5Pre-diabetes is highly prevalent in Western countries. Its prevalence rises with age, and by age 75 years nearly 50% of the population in the USA is classified as pre-diabetic or diabetic.6 7 However, not all patients with pre-diabetes will develop diabetes where can i buy zithromax over the counter. The risk of a person with pre-diabetes progressing to diabetes within 12 months is between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20.8 This annual conversion rate drops even lower as where can i buy zithromax over the counter patients age.9 A 12-year follow-up of older adults with pre-diabetes, showed most remained stable or reverted to normal blood sugar levels, whereas only one‐third developed diabetes or died.10If a person develops diabetes, they do not automatically develop symptoms or complications. Complications, such as retinopathy and renal disease, develop over time and are more likely to occur the longer a patient has suffered with diabetes.11 Therefore, if a patient is approaching the end of their life, developing type 2 diabetes may have no direct impact on their health or quality of life.In order for a patient to eventually benefit from the label of pre-diabetes they must fulfil three criteria.

They must:Be in the group of where can i buy zithromax over the counter patients that are going to convert from pre-diabetes to diabetes.Be in the group of patients that are going to develop symptoms or complications of diabetes.Be in the group of patients for whom lifestyle changes or medication can prevent the conversion from pre-diabetes to diabetes.If a patient does not belong to all three of these groups then labelling them as pre-diabetic will not confer any benefit to them. As conversion rates from pre-diabetes to diabetes reduce as a person ages and shortening life expectancy (which inevitably comes with ageing) reduces the risk of developing complications from diabetes, there is going to be a point in any patient’s life, even assuming that lifestyle changes could prevent progression to diabetes, where a patient will not benefit from knowing they have pre-diabetes. Calculating the exact age at which that will occur for an individual patient is problematic but certain general principles can be established to help clinicians decide on the benefit of labelling.This paper explores where can i buy zithromax over the counter the pros and cons of a pre-diabetes label and a pragmatic ethical approach that could be taken by clinicians when faced with a new unanticipated pre-diabetic blood result that has been discovered through ‘routine’ blood tests.What are the harms of a pre-diabetes label?. The treatment for pre-diabetes is, in essence, adopting a healthier diet and taking more exercise. If adopted and maintained, these lifestyle changes are likely to benefit most patients in multiple aspects of health, not just their risk where can i buy zithromax over the counter of developing diabetes.

However, although they may slightly delay the point at which a patient develops diabetes, studies of lifestyle-based diabetes prevention programmes show that most patients do not or cannot maintain long-term lifestyle changes.5 12 Weight loss is generally short term or minimal and patients usually slip back into old habits and routines. While there is undoubtedly an argument for informing younger patients who may receive a benefit from knowing they have pre-diabetes, the harms of informing increase where can i buy zithromax over the counter with age.Many elderly patients with comorbidities may struggle to increase physical activity. Dietary change and attempts to lose weight after a certain age can have detrimental health effects13 Labelling somebody as having a medical condition carries a psychological burden in itself, and being unable to engage in the behaviour change recommended may also have negative consequences, that is, engendering a feeling of being ‘a failure’.14–16 If the label leads to further follow-up this may also place a burden on patients. There are also considerable implications for where can i buy zithromax over the counter the use of health resources if the labelling of individuals as pre-diabetic requires further follow-up and intervention. Annual blood tests are standard (£6.42), subsequent general where can i buy zithromax over the counter practitioner (GP) or nurse (£30) appointments to discuss results frequently take place as do referrals on to the national Diabetes Prevention Programme (£270).17 There are roughly 3 million people in the UK aged 80 years or over.18 If one-third of them have pre-diabetes and, of those, half have an annual blood test, a quarter have a GP appointment and one in eight get referred to the National Health Service (NHS) Diabetes Prevention Programme that is an annual cost of around £37 million.What is ideal practice and what is the reality?.

While some patients may have been tested following screening for being at risk of diabetes, in the UK most patients in whom pre-diabetes is diagnosed have blood sugar level tests carried out as part of a battery of other blood tests that are performed as part of annual chronic disease monitoring for conditions such as hypertension.19 The contents of the battery are determined by individual practices and usually based on guidance and payment targets issued by the NHS.20 In theory, a patient should give informed consent before any test, including blood sugar and HbA1c testing. In reality many patients who are given a diagnosis of pre-diabetes are unaware that they had blood tests for diabetes/pre-diabetes.19 When checking blood glucose or HbA1c in where can i buy zithromax over the counter an elderly patient, especially one without symptoms of diabetes, the clinician should talk through with them the potential outcomes of the test and the implications this may have to them. The patient can then make an informed decision as to whether they want to go ahead with testing or not. In routine clinical where can i buy zithromax over the counter practice in the UK this happens rarely, if at all. This is likely due to the volume of blood testing, the automated nature of the process, the limited time a clinician has to devote to each individual patient and the priority that individual clinicians assign to such conversations.As we discussed in a recent paper a more individualised approach to ‘routine’ blood tests needs to be taken.19 The utility of each test should be gauged for each patient as an individual, not as the average patient that has a particular disease.

The reality, where can i buy zithromax over the counter however, is that this change will, at best, be adopted slowly or, at worst, not at all. What then, should clinicians who are presented with a pre-diabetic blood result in an elderly patient do?. The see-saw model of paternalismWhen faced with a series of test results for a patient, clinicians exercise judgement about what they consider ‘normal’ or ‘satisfactory’ where can i buy zithromax over the counter. They also exercise judgement in what they communicate to the patient about the results. In certain circumstances where can i buy zithromax over the counter a patient may, for instance, have a mildly raised bilirubin or mildly decreased albumin and the clinician may file the result as ‘satisfactory’ and not inform the patient.

Is this an act of paternalism or is it the act of a clinician filtering out the ‘noise’ that is generated from carrying out tests and using an individual patient’s where can i buy zithromax over the counter circumstances to contextualise what is ‘normal’?. Should clinicians, therefore, assume that all new pre-diabetic blood results above a certain age should not be disclosed to patients?. This is obviously an indefensible position where can i buy zithromax over the counter as a general policy since patients have a right to information that concerns their health. However, while the blood result may be a factual piece of data, the labelling of a result as ‘satisfactory’, ‘acceptable’ or ‘abnormal’ is a clinical judgement. There is, in most circumstances, where can i buy zithromax over the counter a moral obligation on the clinician to disclose to a patient that they are suffering with a disease.

Pre-diabetes is not a disease and unless a patient fulfils the three criteria set out in the introduction to this paper the information is not likely to benefit the patient.In younger patients, where the criteria related to a significant likelihood of progressing to diabetes with negative health effects are likely to be fulfilled, there is an onus on the clinician to inform patients they have pre-diabetes. In many younger where can i buy zithromax over the counter patients it will be difficult to judge whether they fulfil the third criterion and can successfully change their lifestyle. In these cases the likely benefits of ‘diagnosis’ outweigh any potential drawback. However, as a patient ages and develops certain other comorbidities, a tipping where can i buy zithromax over the counter point is reached where the criteria are very unlikely to be fulfilled and the harms of a ‘diagnosis’ will outweigh any potential benefits. At that point informing the patient becomes harmful and should arguably only be done if the patient explicitly requests the information.Rather than having a full discussion of the pros and cons of a pre-diabetes label with each patient we would advocate a ‘see-saw’ model of paternalist considerations.

Younger fitter patients are automatically informed of their pre-diabetes whether or not they have requested where can i buy zithromax over the counter the information explicitly while those who are very elderly and have comorbidities and a limited life expectancy are not informed. In the middle is the group of where can i buy zithromax over the counter patients for whom paternalism either way is not appropriate because the benefits and harms of a ‘diagnosis’ are uncertain. These patients in the middle of the see-saw are those for whom an in-depth discussion about the relevance and meaning of ‘pre-diabetes’ to them as an individual needs to take place, and also those patients where the blood test most strongly ought to have been discussed before it was performed.It could be argued that a drawback to this approach is the effect that it may have on patient–physician trust. In modern medicine patients are frequently seen by multiple clinicians where can i buy zithromax over the counter. Clinician one may choose, quite ethically, not to reveal to a patient that they are pre-diabetic.

The patient may then see clinician two where can i buy zithromax over the counter who tells them. This could then create a situation where the patient loses trust in clinician one and, indeed, the whole medical profession. However, pre-diabetes where can i buy zithromax over the counter is not a disease state. The non-disclosure of pre-diabetes is markedly different to the non-disclosure of a disease. If the patient understands that clinician one did not disclose to them because pre-diabetes is a risk factor that is not where can i buy zithromax over the counter relevant to them, and not a disease, then, hopefully, there would be no loss of trust.

In primary care in the UK, there is frequently non-disclosure of other ‘pre’ conditions, such as chronic kidney disease.21 This non-disclosure takes place where the condition is of relevance to the patient and full disclosure would, generally, be in the best interest of the patient. This is ethically and professionally problematic where can i buy zithromax over the counter. However, the response of where can i buy zithromax over the counter patients who find out about non-disclosure in these cases is of interest. When interviewed, the response of patients to finding out about these non-disclosures is nuanced and varied.21 It does need lead to automatic loss of trust in the medical profession.Wider use of this approach?. The purpose of the paper is where can i buy zithromax over the counter to outline principles that could be applied, in an ethical manner to an unexpected blood test result of pre-diabetes.

In theory, the principles outlined could be more widely applicable in other pre-conditions and other risk factors. To be applicable, a condition must have a fairly predictable trajectory, have a point where ‘pre-disease’ becomes ‘actual disease’ and be where can i buy zithromax over the counter potentially reversible (or delayable). The principles could possibly be applied to early chronic kidney disease or early hypertension but may not be appropriate for other conditions or risk factors. The difficulty in other conditions is predicting whether a patient is going to convert from a pre-condition to a disease state, predicting when they are going to convert and predicting whether where can i buy zithromax over the counter this is going to cause harm. In these cases, where there is doubt, this should always be discussed fully with the patient.ConclusionWe have outlined a pragmatic ethical approach that can be used to guide a clinician when deciding how to manage an unexpected pre-diabetic blood result in an elderly patient.

We argue that, while patients where can i buy zithromax over the counter should have full access to all information and test results, pre-diabetes is a risk state, not a disease, and is only of relevance to patients that fulfil certain criteria. While the individual characteristics of each patient should always be considered, in general, those patients that do not fulfil these criteria should not be burdened or potentially harmed by being labelled. Where there is any doubt about the where can i buy zithromax over the counter harms and benefits of a pre-diabetes label, full disclosure and open discussion should take place with the patient. This will help avoid a situation where trust in the medical profession is eroded when a patient finds out at a later date that they ‘had pre-diabetes’ and were not informed.Data availability statementThere are no data in this work.Ethics statementsPatient consent for publicationNot required..

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However, a pregnancy test is not required where can i buy zithromax over the counter prior to vaccination. This multisite cohort study collated data from 445 women who received the nonavalent HPV treatment during pregnancy and 496 that received the treatment peripregnancy (within 42 days before last menstrual period (LMP)).3 Pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in these groups were compared with those of 552 distal (16–22 weeks pre-LMP) exposures to the quadrivalent or nonavalent HPV treatment. Compared with distal-exposures, during-pregnancy or peripregnancy, exposures were where can i buy zithromax over the counter not associated with spontaneous abortion, preterm birth or small-for-gestational-age births.

Birth defects were rare where can i buy zithromax over the counter in all groups. The findings inform counselling for women who inadvertently receive the nonavalent (and possibly quadrivalent) HPV treatment during pregnancy. Data are needed for the bivalent HPV treatment.Has the time where can i buy zithromax over the counter come for point-of-care STI testing?.

Point-of-care (POC) STI testing where can i buy zithromax over the counter has been proposed as a strategy to both improve treatment rates and optimise antibiotic stewardship. This study investigated the performance of the Visby Medical Sexual Health Test, a POC PCR-based NAAT for rapid (30 m) detection of CT, NG and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV).4 The analysis used self-collected vaginal samples from 1535 women who attended 10 clinics in seven US states over an 11-month period. Results were compared with those of clinician-collected samples tested using gold-standard laboratory-based where can i buy zithromax over the counter NAATs.

Specificity and sensitivity of the POC test were 98.3% and 97.4% for CT, 97.4% and 99.4% for NG and 99.2% and 96.9% for TV. These results highlight the where can i buy zithromax over the counter potential utility of easy-to-use POC NAATs in clinical practice.Point of care HIV-1 RNA testing facilitates the same-day confirmation of HIV and leads to rapid viral suppression when followed by immediate antiretroviral treatmentMSM with primary HIV (PHI) and those with established but undiagnosed can be an important source of onward transmission. This study from Amsterdam evaluated where can i buy zithromax over the counter a strategy comprising.

(i) an online media campaign to increase awareness about PHI among MSM and promote self-referral for testing, (ii) qualitative POC HIV-1 RNA testing for same-day confirmation of and delivery of results and (iii) immediate referral of newly diagnosed men to a treatment centre to initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART within 24 hours.5 Time to viral suppression was only 55 days for MSM who benefitted from the strategy and shorter than previous strategies that deferred ART initiation and/or did not employ HIV-1 RNA POC testing. The approach proved feasible in Amsterdam and should be investigated in other settings.Pre-exposure prophylaxis, HIV incidence and risk behaviour among MSM in West AfricaThis prospective cohort study investigated the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among MSM in Côte D’Ivoire, Mali, Togo and Burkina Faso where can i buy zithromax over the counter as an extension of CohMSM, a prevention study that did not include PrEP.6 Participants were free to choose between daily or event-driven PrEP, change between the two and stop and restart PrEP. Among 598 MSM followed for 743.6 person years, HIV incidence was 2.3 per 100 person-years (95% CI 1.3 to 3.7) where can i buy zithromax over the counter and lower than in CohMSM (adjusted incidence rate ratio 0.21.

95% CI 0.12 to 0.36). There was no evidence of an increase in risk behaviour since reports of where can i buy zithromax over the counter condomless anal sex and prevalence of STIs remained stable, whereas the number of male sexual partners and of sex acts with casual male partners decreased. PrEP is an effective prevention tool for MSM in West Africa.Ethics statementsPatient consent for publicationNot required..