Budget Cut Impacts on Health Care
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93,000 Arizonans, who had Part D Copay program, now without services
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Increase on KidsCare and KidsCare Parent premiums that will double the
cost per child, impacting 25,000 children
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Elimination of state-funded Senior Food Programs
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Newborn Screening Program will have to reduce the number of disorders
for which it can test
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Close the Tucson Health Laboratory, close testing, leave positions
vacant
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Reduce funding for statewide immunization information system
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Suspend primary care services for 5,529 people
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End testing of adults who may have sickle cell anemia
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Suspend hospital and transport services for high-risk infants
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Suspend contracts with counties for prenatal services
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Refuse state health services to people with a serious mental illness who
refuse to cooperate with financial screening and eligibility
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Some individuals with mental illness now will have to pay 100 percent of
their services
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Department of Health Services Behavioral Health Division will no longer
accept court-ordered treatment services provided to individuals who are
not eligible for Medicaid and who are not seriously mentally ill, which
includes people with diagnoses such as depression
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Behavioral Health Division will stop paying pharmacy co-pays for
low-income seniors and low-income individuals with disabilities
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Require prior authorization and reauthorization of home behavioral
health services
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Reduce total number of Behavioral Health Division full time staff
working within outpatient clinics or independently who serve people not
eligible for Medicaid and are seriously mentally ill as long as their
needs can still be met
Poison Control Centers
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Elimination of most funding for both Banner Poison Control Center and
University of Arizona Poison Center
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Will result in increased ER use and cost
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Of the 105,000 calls to BPCC in FY 2007, 41,000 people were treated in
their homes, avoiding hospital costs; without a poison hotline, Banner
estimates that 29,000 of those people would have gone to the hospital,
resulting in $33 million in health care charges
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18 percent of callers are covered by AHCCCS and poison hotlines save the
state $5.4 billion in costs to AHCCCS
