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VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 67
Affordable Care Act: Student impact BY JEN BASCH & STEPHANIE CASANOVA
The Daily Wildcat The UA is providing resources to help students ensure they have health insurance by January 2014, as required by the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act was enacted in March 2010, making it mandatory for U.S. citizens to have health insurance. The government
U-Mart to move ice cream to new parlor
has since created a marketplace where people can apply for health care at a lower cost based on their income. Cheryl O’Donnell, the state director of Enroll America, said the law requires health insurance to cover common doctor visits. Enroll America is a national nonprofit organization that focuses on outreach and education to make sure the uninsured are able to get health insurance through the Affordable
Care Act. “Regular checkups, preventative screenings — those kinds of things are now covered under our health insurance plans,” O’Donnell said, “so the things that students would want to get health coverage for are now going to be guaranteed under their plans.” Students can also remain on their parents’ health care plans until they’re 26 years old, regardless of marital status or whether they still live with
their parents, O’Donnell added. Graduate students not on their parents’ plans may also be able to benefit from the Affordable Care Act. Zachary Brooks, a second language acquisitions graduate student and president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, said he has high hopes for the changes happening. “Any way that this ACA can help
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The UA is about to expand its offering of frozen treats by adding a new ice cream parlor to the Student Union Memorial Center sometime within the next year. The ice cream parlor will house the ice cream counter currently located in U-Mart, said Todd Millay, assistant director of the Arizona Student Unions, in order to make room for more products at U-Mart. “Ice cream is one of the best selling items across campus,” Millay said. “That being said, all of this space we could better utilize for other products and services.” The new parlor will be located in U-Mart’s current storage room, which is in the corner of U-Mart next to Fast Copy. It would be a great location for an ice cream parlor, Millay said. “We have this great space here, which is currently just being used as the storage room for U-Mart,” Millay said. “So, we’re simply going to move the ice cream parlor to here.” The products currently held in the U-Mart storage room could be moved into the secondary storage room for the store, Millay said, freeing up the space to be used as a new storefront. With that plan set, Arizona Student Unions decided to get students involved in the design process. Millay said they wanted to
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UA JUNIOR RUNNING BACK Ka’Deem Carey kneels on the field after Arizona’s 58-21 loss to ASU in Tempe, Ariz. (see story on page 7).
Local health company uses UA-developed management program BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY
The Daily Wildcat A local health care corporation will use a medication management program developed by faculty at the UA College of Pharmacy. SinfoníaRx, a newly-formed division of Sinfonía HealthCare Corporation, adopted the UAdeveloped Medication Management Center. The center provides medication counseling primarily for Medicare beneficiaries and patients on complex medication regiments, according to Kevin Boesen, an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science and the founder of the Medication Management Center. Boesen has also been named CEO of SinfoníaRx. “Basically, it’s health care solutions with a focus on complex medication regiments,” Boesen said. “So, [the center is] trying to improve health outcomes and decrease medication costs.” The Medication Management
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Center was created in 2006 to coincide with the launch of Medicare Part D, which expanded access to prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries, Boesen said. The program was designed to mitigate the adverse outcomes of increased medication use, such as drug interactions and side effects. Fletcher McCusker, CEO of Sinfonía HealthCare, said medication errors are very problematic in the health care business. “There’s probably nothing more problematic than medication error,” McCusker said. “It’s about a $200 billion problem, and it’s probably the leading cause of hospital readmission.” The center has helped more than 2.5 million patients since its inception seven years ago, said J. Lyle Bootman, dean of the College of Pharmacy. By the end of the year, he said he expects the center will become the nation’s largest provider of medication therapy management services.
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KEVIN BOESEN , director of the Medication Management Center at the UA’s College of Pharmacy, will soon become the CEO of Sinfonia Rx, a company that will be monitoring prescriptions and looking for ways to increase the benefits of the prescriptions. The company will use a UA-developed medication management program.
With SinfoníaRx, Boesen said, the software and business practices created by the center will be taken out of the university so that the center can contract with more providers and further develop it to offer more
programs. The College of Pharmacy and SinfoníaRx will have a unique and exclusive relationship, Bootman said.
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