Unprecedented Florida Medicaid Changes Risks Patients? Health, APA Says

August 22, 2005 Unprecedented Florida Medicaid Changes Risks Patients' Health, APA SaysToday the American Psychiatric Association warned that Florida's enactment of new Medicaid legislation puts people with mental illness at serious risk. The unprecedented and most harmful aspect of the law is a requirement that  'each year' a patient must first fail on the cheapest mandated medications before the patient is given access to the medication his or her physician believes is optimal, even where the patient has been successfully treated with the physician chosen medication. This major health policy setback will help ensure that patients are less likely . . .