POISON CONTROL CENTER FUNDING THROUGH FEE-FOR-SERVICE MECHANISM PROPOSED
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
POISON CONTROL CENTER FUNDING THROUGH FEE-FOR-SERVICE MECHANISM PROPOSED in a House concurrent resolution (H Con Res 243) introduced by Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) on April 26. The resolution expresses "the sense of Congress that any legislation that is enacted to provide for national health care reform should provide for compensation for poison control center services." One means of providing funding for poison control centers suggested by the resolution would be "a fee for service mechanism under which each health benefit plan would pay a fee for each service rendered by a poison control center to a member of the plan."