This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Richard C. Wopat, MD
Oregon Health Services Commission Lebanon

JAMA. 1992;268(6):790.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor.

—This letter is written in response to a previous letter to the editor from Dr Witten¹ and a response from Dr Eddy² published in the February 26, 1992, issue of THE JOURNAL. Both Witten's letter and Eddy's response indicate a lack of understanding of this aspect of the proposed Oregon Health Plan.

Witten asks, "Are the patients expected to screen their visits to the physician according to whether or not the diagnosis is covered by Medicaid?" The proposed Oregon Health Plan covers all diagnostic visits. It was our philosophy that the decision as to whether treatment should be covered could not be made until the diagnosis was known; therefore, diagnostic visits and evaluations would be covered. In the examples that Witten and Eddy cited—diaper rash, pharyngitis, and superficial wounds—the patient could be seen by the doctor and a diagnosis could be made. That diagnostic visit . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?