CME/CEU Let's Talk Webinar/Teleconferences

Join your colleagues on May 22 for Let's Talk: Infant Safe Sleep. Click here for the registration form. This will be a joint webinar/tele-conference event.

Save June 14 for the next Let's Talk: Providing Sound Beginnings by Recognizing Risk Factors of Late-Onset Hearing Loss. This will be a joint webinar/teleconference event. Click here for the registration form.

Past Events - Check out the Recordings!

Click here for the webinar from the April 11 Let's Talk: Graduated Driver License Law - Assessing Readiness to Drive with Richard Kirkpatrick and Dennis Durbin, MD, MSCE, FAAP.

Click here to play the webinar from the March 28 Let's Talk: Pulse Oximetry and Critical Congenital Heart Disease with W. Robert Morrow, MD, FAAP.

PA AAP Program on Oral Health

PA AAP launches new Healthy Teeth Healthy Children Program, funded by the DentaQuest Foundation. The three priority areas of the program include: medical/dental collaboration, strengthening the oral health care delivery system in Pennsylvania, and improving oral health literacy of families across the state. For more information, please contact C. Eve Kimball, MD, the PA Chapter Oral Health Champion, or Heather Stoddard, MPH, the program coordinator.

PA AAP Partners with Advocacy Organizations on PPACA Implementation

The PA Chapter, the PA Health Law Project, PA Partnerships for Children, Community Legal Services and Public Citizens for Children and Youth are working together to assure children's health care is an essential element in the PA Exchange Development under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Click here to read the "Principles for Children." This document has been shared with the PA Department of Insurance, the Governor's Office and other stakeholders.

Co-Pays for Medical Assistance Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs

The Chapter continues to partner with other advocates regarding DPW’s plans to impose co-pays on Medical Assistance services provided to children who have Medical Assistance due to a medical condition or disability and whose family income is at or above 2x the federal poverty level. The PA Health Law Project has received several inquiries as to what families can do now. The following is their suggestion:

What's most important is that families write to DPW urging them to allow deductions from family income for out of pocket medical costs & health insurance premiums. Out-of-pocket costs should be counted in determining family income for co-pay purposes, as many families have high out of pocket expenses for their child with disabilities.

Click here for more information on contacting DPW.