Discussion Forum

Are you a 13-18 year old with asthma? 

In the past year have you also:

• Used prescription asthma medicine?
• Had some trouble controlling your asthma?

If so, we have an opportunity for you!

3C Institute is looking for 20 teens with asthma to test CampAir, an online program to help them learn how to manage and improve their asthma, and to tell us what they think about this online program.

Interested in seeing if any other hospitals are using case-managers for asthma in an inpatient and outpatient setting.

How does reimbursement work for asthma education-has medicare approved payment for code CPT 98960? What is

your take on this? 

Can anyone provide a high level overview of the status of Medicaid reimbursement for AE-C services. I understand it's a variable from state to state. In particular, i'm interested in the status of the midwestern states: Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. thanks

Mike

CAn someone suggest an alternative to Albuterol that does not cause spasm and coughing. My patient is also  on Singulair bid and flovent bid but cannot tolerate abuterol.

Thanks

Has anyone used allergy preventing mattress covers in their program? If so, did you use the zippered or non-zippered options?

How would I file a claim with the American Disabilities Act?

The main treatment of asthma is inhaled corticosteroids. However adherence to these medications in asthma is often poor, with low adherence associated with excessive health care costs and an increased risk of emergency room visits and mortality. Although various methods are used to indirectly assess adherence, all have significant limitations whether used in clinical or research practice. The recent development of electronic monitoring devices (EMDs) for use with inhalers presents an exciting opportunity to easily and accurately measure inhaler adherence.

Cough is the most common complaint for which patients seek medical attention. Cough variant asthma (CVA) is a form of asthma, which presents solely with cough. CVA is one of the most common causes of chronic cough. More importantly, 30 to 40% of adult patients with CVA, unless adequately treated, may progress to classic asthma. CVA shares a number of pathophysiological features with classic asthma such as atopy, airway hyper-responsiveness, eosinophilic airway inflammation and various features of airway remodeling.