Unprecedented Florida Medicaid Changes Risks Patients' Health, APA Says
In response
to Florida's enactment of new Medicaid legislation, the American
Psychiatric Association (APA) released a statement that "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 ...."
