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March 14, 2011
Escovedo, Sexton, Garza, Wonderland at dentist's 'MXMW' fundraiser
Rockin’ Austin dentist Dr. Shane Matt, who counts some of Austin’s most famous musicians among his clients, is turning his Authentic Smiles Dental Studio into a musical showcase this week during SXSW to raise money for programs that provide dental care to Austin musicians.
His office at 211 San Antonio Street will feature a silent auction and refreshments on the upper floor, with live music by The Trishas; Kevin and Dustin Welch; Alejandro Escovedo and Amy Cook; Will Sexton and Jake Owen; Carolyn Wonderland and many others during business hours.
Matt’s first annual “Mouth by Mouthwest” music event will run Tuesday through Thursday from 1 to 8 p.m. with proceeds going to HAAM, the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and MusiCares.
HAAM provides primary care, mental health, hearing and dental care to uninsured Austin musicians. MusiCares, a national nonprofit, helps cover the additional costs of more extensive dental services, such as crowns and implants, for musicians.
Also starting Wednesday and continuing through Sunday, Matt’s studio will exhibit “Horses,” paintings by Pehr Smith.
For a schedule of musical events at Matt’s studio, see his website.
“He has a real interesting space and has helped a lot of musicians,” said Carolyn Schwarz, executive director of HAAM.
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March 10, 2011
Artists, starving for health coverage, these gigs are for you
Uninsured visual artists, performing artists and entertainment professionals can learn more about how the national health care law will affect them next week at events coinciding with SXSW.
A panel discussion and a free seminar are on the bill.
On March 16 at 3:30 p.m., the Break a Leg! Musicians and Health Care Reform panel at the Austin Convention Center, Room 17AB, 500 E. Cesar Chavez St., will include Renata Marinaro, eastern regional director of the Actors Fund’s Artists Health Insurance Resource Center. The panel will answer questions about the what the health care law will do to expand coverage to musicians and other creative professionals and how to meet a mandate that all Americans obtain health coverage by 2014.
On March 17, from 1 to 3 p.m., the Hyde Park Theatre, (below) 511 W. 43rd St., will host a free seminar for artists on the health care law led by the Actors Fund health center. The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists will co-sponsor. To register, e-mail your name to Lane Buckman at Lbuckman@aftra.com. The seminar is part of the Actors Fund ‘s Every Artist Insured Tour, which is visiting dozens of U.S. cities. It will provide two free booklets on understanding the health care law.
The main handout looks fairly generic, but the center’s website has some helpful resources for uninsured creative people.
For musicians in Austin, don’t forget HAAM, the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. For more information about HAAM, see the organization’s website.
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January 14, 2011
Seton might also enter HMO market, compete with partner
The Seton Family of Hospitals is considering creating an HMO for Medicaid patients, officials said Friday, one day after the Central Health board voted to pursue an application.
If Seton pursues an application for the HMO it could put two health care partners in competition with each other for low-income patients. Seton leases University Medical Center Brackenridge from Central Health, and the two have a complicated, long-term financial arrangement with each other.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission plans to put out a request for proposals in March for HMOs to cover Medicaid patients starting in 2012. A big increase in patients is expected in 2014, but Central Texas could be limited to two or three HMO providers, said Christie Garbe, a spokeswoman for Central Health.
“This RFP has garnered a lot of interest because of health reform,” Garbe said. “The market will be expanding if health reform passes.”
Right now, two companies — Amerigroup and Superior — operate Medicaid HMOs as part of the State of Texas Access Reform program, which serves Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell and Lee counties.
Central Health, formerly the Travis County Healthcare District, is seeking to be licensed as part of the STAR program, and the Central Health board agreed Thursday to invest $5 million to launch the program. The board also authorized transferring $27.6 million from its reserve account to the HMO to demonstrate it has the “financial wherewithal” to sponsor the health plan, assuming the state gives it the go-ahead.
State Health and Human Services Commission spokeswoman Stephanie Goodman said the two companies that now provide the service will have to rebid on the contracts to stay in the game. The state wants at least two HMOs to serve Central Texas, she said.
“Some large metro areas may have enough Medicaid clients to support more plans so we have the option of awarding additional contracts if we have strong bids,” she said.
Seton’s has had a for-profit HMO in Central Texas since 1994. It is the sole member of Seton Health Care, a non-profit, “so profits are reinvested in the community,” Seton spokeswoman Matilda Sanchez said.
Although Seton still is mulling the idea, Christopher Hartle, Seton’s senior vice president for insurance services and managed care, said in a written statement: “We believe the community would welcome and benefit from the kind of health plan that only a local, health care system-sponsored HMO like Seton Health Plan can offer, so we hope to be able to offer them that choice in 2012.”
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Try Ray Benson's BBQ sauce, help Austin musicians
The ubiquitous Ray Benson, a musician and producer, now has a barbecue sauce. If you buy some at the Austin airport this month, you can delight the friends or family you’re flying off to visit and help the city’s uninsured musicians at the same time. Or you take some home for yourself.
Throughout this month, $1 from each sale of Ray Benson’s Asleep at the Wheel BBQ Sauce is being donated to Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, or HAAM. The organization provides primary care, dental services, vision care, hearing services and mental health care for free or a reduced cost to uninsured local musicians.
Delaware North Companies, which manages food concessions at the airport, is making the contribution. Benson is on HAAM’s board.
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September 17, 2010
Party with and help Austin musicians Saturday, Tuesday
It’s time again for folks who love live music to thank Austin musicians and enjoy listening to them play for free all over town.
In the run-up to HAAM Benefit Day on Tuesday, the annual fundraiser for the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, Whole Foods at 525 N. Lamar Blvd. is holding a benefit for HAAM Saturday night. The party will feature The White Ghost Shivers at 6 p.m. followed by Beto and the Fairlanes at 7:30 p.m. A $5 donation is suggested, and there will be a VIP tent for $20 with food and drinks.
Also, Beto and the Fairlanes is presenting a $7,500 check to HAAM at 7:30. HAAM provides free or reduced primary care, mental health services, dental care and hearing services to uninsured Austin musicians.
The benefit concert is being held in conjunction with Whole Foods 30th birthday celebration — which starts tonight at 7 with a free showing of Dazed and Confused on the store’s rooftop downtown. Whole Foods is a longtime supporter of HAAM.
Many other businesses also take part in HAAM Benefit Day, donating 5 percent of Tuesday’s proceeds to HAAM or making a cash gift. Musicians will be playing at many of the businesses to show their gratitude. Here’s the lineup.
This year, the Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association will match HAAM Benefit Day donations up to $10,000.
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June 10, 2010
Dell foundation grant to help uninsured Hispanic families
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has awarded a $210,000 grant to El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission to support its health care and health education services to uninsured children and families.
El Buen Samaritano at 7000 Woodhue Drive operates a clinic and offers health programs that focus on combating childhood obesity, encouraging healthy eating habits and exercise, breast health education, prenatal health education and teenage sex education.
“Austin may rank as one of the healthiest cities in America, but this ranking does not necessarily equate into healthy children and families,” said El Buen’s Director of Health Services Al Perez in a written statement. “Especially for our low-income Latino friends of Austin.”
El Buen has had a long partnership with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, a charity started by Susan and Michael Dell of Dell Computer Corp. The grant focuses on prevention and changing the habits of children and families, Perez said.
El Buen Samaritano said this grant and other aid from the foundation will enable it to touch the lives of 1,372 children.
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June 9, 2010
Uninsured musicians to get free vision checks, eyeglasses
The newest group to come to the aid of Austin’s uninsured musicians is Prevent Blindness Texas, which is offering free vision exams and vouchers for prescription glasses on Saturday.
About 200 Austin musicians have been selected to receive the services through the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, a nonprofit that offers care to 1,300 Austin musicians. This is the first vision screening for the musicians and future screenings are possible, according to Carolyn Schwarz, executive director of HAAM.
“We filled it really quickly because there’s a pent-up demand,” Schwarz said.
Musicians were surveyed and requested the service. “Some of them wear glasses that are just taped together,” said Jill McGuckin, a spokeswoman for HAAM.
With help from local eye-care professionals, the exams and vouchers will be provided to HAAM members at Eye Physicians of Austin.
“We are grateful for the generous support of local Austin eye care professionals such as Dr. George Thorne of Eye Physicians of Austin, Robert Wong, M.D., and many other ophthalmologists, optometrists, technicians and volunteers who will be donating their time to provide free eye exams on June 12,” said Debbie Goss, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness Texas, in a written statement. “We also thank our optical center partners from OneSight and the Luxottica Group.”
HAAM provides access to free and reduced-cost health cost to musicians through the Seton Family of Hospitals, St. David’s Foundation, the SIMS Foundation and Estes Audiology. The health care organizations donate that care, the cost of which is supplemented by donations and fundraisers, including the annual HAAM Benefit Day in which participating businesses contribute 5 percent of the day’s proceeds to HAAM.
This year’s HAAM Benefit Day — the fifth annual — is Sept. 21.
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May 20, 2010
It's a party: Musician health program turns 5
The Health Alliance for Austin Musicians has just turned 5, and the list of uninsured Austin musicians who have benefited from its free and reduced health care continues to grow.
Here’s a chance to celebrate that milestone and show your support for the city’s music scene and the people who make it so vibrant.
On Sunday, HAAM is holding a brunch from noon to 2 p.m. at the Zilker Clubhouse. Tickets to the RockStar Brunch are $50 each — remember, it’s for charity — and are available through Frontgate Tickets or at the door.
Musician members of HAAM get primary health care through the Seton Family of Hospitals, dental services through the St. David’s Foundation, hearing services from Estes Audiology and mental health counseling through the SIMS Foundation. Since its inception, HAAM has provided services to 2,000 Austin musicians and is currently serving 1,300, Executive Director Carolyn Schwarz said.
HAAM relies on the generosity of the health care organizations and donors to keep going. Last month’s 3rd Annual Corporate Battle of the Bands at Antone’s raised $21,620 for HAAM as well as a free day of recording at Bismeaux Studio and four three-day passes to Austin City Limits Music Festival for the grand-prize band winner: The Rejected Takeoffs, made up of employees of Austin Digital Inc.
On Sunday, music will be provided by Ocote Soul Sounds and musician/celebrity chef Jeremy Bruch from the band, What Made Milwaukee Famous, will help cook, Schwarz said. Joe Humel, a drummer and owner of RockStar Bagels, will bring the bagels.
Food and beverages are being provided by Whole Foods, Batter Blaster, Kohana Coffee, Tito’s, Twin Liquors and Hey Cupcake!
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March 12, 2010
Drug companies offer reduced pharmaceuticals to uninsured
When you’re uninsured, paying for a doctor can be hard but filling an expensive prescription can be even worse.
A group of drug companies is offering a program, the Together Rx Access Card, that offers reduced pharmaceuticals to the uninsured. Program materials say reductions of 25 percent to 40 percent are typical.
A news release about the program says that 2 million Together RX cardholders have saved $100 million in drug costs. The release claims that 90 percent of uninsured people are eligible for the free program.
I asked Lisa McGiffert, a senior policy analyst at Consumers Union Southwest Regional Office, about the program. She said it’s great to have programs that help the uninsured with prescription drugs but it would be even better if companies lowered prices for everyone.
The companies participating in Together Rx Access include Abbott Laboratories; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; GlaxoSmithKline; Janssen, a Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; LifeScan, Inc.; McNeil Pediatrics, a Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Ortho Dermatologics, a Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Ortho-McNeil Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Ortho-McNeil Neurologics, a Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Ortho Women’s Health & Urology, a Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Pfizer Inc; PriCara, a Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Stiefel, a GlaxoSmithKline company; Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.; Tibotec Therapeutics, a Division of Centocor Ortho Biotech Products, L.P.; ViiV Healthcare; and Vistakon Pharmaceuticals, LLC.
More information about the card also is available by phone, toll-free, at (800) 966-0407, or on Facebook.
If anyone has tried this program, let us know if you like it.
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October 14, 2009
St. David's expands dental care for needy
The St. David’s Foundation has added two more dental offices on wheels to its 11-year-old fleet of vans that serve needy school children and adults. Now there are six dental vans.
The last time I wrote about the vans I was inundated with calls from adults seeking dental services. The calls pointed to a huge need in this community for dental care for the uninsured and underinsured.
The vans in St. David’s Dental Program primarily serve students during the school year, but adults who are patients of clinics that treat low-income people — People’s Community Clinic, Volunteer Healthcare Clinic and El Buen Samaritano — can also make appointments through those clinics for dental care. Also, the vans serve members of the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (uninsured Austin musicians) mainly in the summer.
Each van costs $450,000 to buy and customize with furniture, dental equipment and computers, according to St. David’s. One of the new vans was underwritten by a grant from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation; the other was paid for by the St. David’s Foundation.
To celebrate the new vans, a ceremony will be held at City Hall next Tuesday featuring Mayor Lee Leffingwell receiving a dental exam by a St. David’s dentist.
The foundation said that last year its dentists screened 12,430 school kids in Travis, Hays and Williamson counties and provided further care to 5,000 children. In addition, 975 adult patients from the clinics received care, including 420 musicians.
The new vans will allow for 2,800 additional dental visits, the foundation said.
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July 30, 2009
With grants, clinic will serve 4,000 more needy patients
El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission has received $509,000 in grants enabling it to greatly expand health care services to uninsured and underinsured people in Austin.
El Buen received two grants totaling $293,000 from St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities for clinic operations and expanding capacity, according to El Buen spokesman Ivan Dávila. Another grant worth $125,000 came from St. David’s Healthcare Foundation and $91,000 was donated from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, he said.
The grants will enable the clinic to expand annual patient visits from 11,000 a year to 15,000 at its Wallace Mallory Clinic at 7000 Woodhue Drive in South Austin, Dávila said.
“These grants are so huge for us,” Dávila said.
The clinic will be able to hire a resident full-time doctor, a nurse and medical assistant for seeing patients. Since the clinic started in 1989, a team of volunteer doctors has helped run the clinic and will continue to provide services, along with nurse practitioners on the staff. But the new doctor who will be hired will be the first one on staff, Dávila said.
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May 13, 2009
Study: Women have more trouble getting care and paying for it
A study put out this week by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund says that 75 percent of women under 65 are uninsured, underinsured, had problems paying medical bills or accessing needed care.
Overall, the study says, women had more trouble than men getting medical care and paying for it.
Specifically, according to the study, “Women at Risk: Why Many Women Are Forgoing Needed Health Care,” 52 percent of working-age women reported problems accessing care because of the cost compared with 39 percent of men. It also says 45 percent of women delayed or did not get a cancer screening or dental care compared with 36 percent of men.
Why the gender difference?
“Compared with men,” the study says, “women require more health care services during their reproductive years (ages 18 to 45), have higher out-of-pocket medical costs, and have lower average incomes.”
The study is based on data from the Commonwealth Fund’s 2007 Biennial Health Insurance Survey, a random, national sample of 3,501 adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. The situation probably is worse now because the economy has taken a nosedive, the report says.
The upshot?
“Too often,” the study says, “problems with medical bills and medical debt force women to make difficult tradeoffs between health care, savings, credit card debt, mortgages and basic necessities.”
The solution?
The report pitches universal health care, a topic drawing heated debate in Washington and beyond.
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February 6, 2009
Listen to the music, party with Marcia Ball, help an Austin musician
Wish Marcia Ball a happy birthday while you dance the night away or grab your guitar and your colleagues as you vie to be the best band Austin never heard of.
Those are two upcoming opportunities to show some love to your local musicians and have fun at the same time. The purpose of both events: to support programs that provide health care to uninsured musicians.
Marcia Ball is celebrating her 60th birthday with a weekend-long bash at Antone’s next Friday through Sunday, Feb. 13 to 15, with a share of the proceeds going to the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. HAAM provides free or low-cost primary care, dental services and mental health care to uninsured Austin musicians through the Seton Family of Hospitals, St. David’s Community Health Foundation and the SIMS Foundation.
Also, HAAM is for the second year issuing a call to every day-jobber who plays music on the side and wants to compete in the Corporate Battle of the Bands. Bands need to sign up by March 25. The fund-raising contest will be on April 21, with all of the money raised from donations, door receipts and other fees going to HAAM. The winning band gets a gig at Stubb’s and three-day passes to Austin City Limits Music Festival this fall, according to the announcement. on the HAAM Web site.
Marcia Ball’s Great Big Birthday Bash starts at 8 p.m. next Friday with a Rocking Voodoo Party featuring three of Louisiana bands: Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Geno Delafose and French Rockin’ Boogie, and Sonny Landreth.
On Feb. 14, the bash continues with a Valentine’s Sweetheart Ball and two shows, at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. Angela Strehli, Maria Muldaur, Tracy Nelson, Lavelle White, Lou Ann Barton, Sarah Brown and Ball will perform.
A piano throw-down brunch on Feb. 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., spotlights Floyd Domino, Johnny Nicholas, Nick Connolly, Riley Osborne and Ball playing simultaneously on five keyboards. Other piano players will join and a special guest singer from Fort Worth will appear.
Some online tickets are available here, and the McBurney Foundation has agreed to match donations up to $20,000, said Carolyn Schwarz, executive director of HAAM.
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January 13, 2009
Health plan for uninsured workers scaled down
Some of you know most of your neighbors have jobs but no health insurance. What’s up with that?
Forty-one percent of Central Texas businesses don’t cover their workers, according to data provided by the Central Texas Regional Health Coverage Program.
That organization was created to do something about the ever-increasing pool of uninsured Central Texans. Members originally proposed a low-cost health insurance plan to cover 10,000 workers at small businesses (those with two to 50 workers) across Central Texas. They trotted it out in November 2007, and the Travis County Healthcare District board immediately signed on, pledging $1.5 million. Board members were urged on by their colleague, Clarke Heidrick, an Austin lawyer who spearheaded the project. Their pledge was contingent on other government bodies, organizations or other donors in the region kicking in financial support.
But the plan has yet to attract support outside of Travis County. Now, a much more modest plan has emerged. It’s being billed as a pilot health plan that would cover 2,500 workers within three years.
The Central Texas Regional Health Coverage Program hasn’t given up on trying to drum up support. Today, program representatives asked commissioners courts in Williamson and Hays counties to consider contributing to help cover residents in their own counties. They heard from Travis County Healthcare District President and CEO Patricia Young Brown and Integrated Care Collaboration Executive Director Ann Kitchen. Commissioners could take action next week, said healthcare district spokeswoman Christie Garbe.
It’s anyone’s guess what they’ll do. If no other county buys in, Heidrick said, it’s possible such a plan could fly solo in Travis County. The scaled-down program “is big enough to show that it (the concept) works,” he said.
He hopes the program can launch in the spring — with or without the other counties.
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November 17, 2008
Uninsured far more likely to donate an organ than to get one
I didn’t know until several years ago how incredibly difficult it is to get an organ transplant without health insurance until I wrote about a Lakeway man who couldn’t even get on the liver transplant waiting list because he was uninsured.
Now, a new Harvard study says that while most of the people who get organ transplants in American have health insurance, many of those who donate organs are uninsured. In fact, the uninsured are 21 times more likely to donate an organ than they are to get one.
The study is co-authored by David Himmelstein, one of the researchers I interviewed after the Lakeway man died and his wife was trying to deal with a bankruptcy stemming from his exorbitant medical bills. Texas, by the way, has the highest rate of uninsured people in the country.
Himmeslstein and his colleagues examined data from 2003 involving 4,962 solid organ recipients and 1,447 donors, according to the paper published in the International Journal of Health Services. They found that 16.9 percent of organ donors were uninsured but only 0.8 percent of transplant recipients were uninsured.
“Our finding that uninsured patients frequently serve as organ donors is both new and poignant,” the paper says. “The U.S. health care system denies adequate care to many of the uninsured during life. Yet, in death, the uninsured often give strangers the ultimate gift.”
They question the fairness of a system that was established to provide an even-handed way of distributing a scarce resource: the life-saving body parts of another human being. What do you think?
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September 25, 2008
Local couple featured in national documentary airing Tuesday
Karen Dove of Cedar Park suspected she had cancer but was “passed along” from one doctor to the next, husband Ronnie Dove said.
“We did not have health insurance, and it was hard to get help,” he told me last night.
By the time she found a doctor who would do the surgery she required, the cancer had spread from her ovaries to her colon, he said. She was given three to five years to live. That was in 2005. She died March 30. Karen Dove was just 51.
Karen Dove is among four Americans featured in “Critical Condition,” part of the award-winning P.O.V. series on PBS. KLRU is airing “Critical Condition” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, the same night the doc is being broadcast nationally.
Afterward, at 9:30 p.m. local time, the MacNeil/Lehrer special “Rx for Change,” will air. It will include representatives of the two presidential campaigns and experts discussing top health insurance concerns facing Americans.
Throughout this week, KLRU has been showing prime-time vignettes about other uninsured Central Texans to spotlight the problem. It is part of a campaign involving KLRU and 12 Central Texas health care organizations, “Critical Condition: Central Texas.” It will culminate in a community forum in November, spokeswomen for KLRU said. Stay tuned for the date.
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September 3, 2008
Many uninsured adults desperate for dental care, but help limited
For adults in Austin who lack insurance and need dental care, “the pickings are slim,” says an official with the St. David’s Community Health Foundation’s dental program.
After we ran a story about St. David’s Dental Program on Tuesday, my voice mailbox was full, and the St. David’s program was inundated with calls for help. One woman who left me a message asked that I call her immediately. Several callers wanted help for people they know.
Now that school is back in session, help is harder to find. The St. David’s program focuses free care on school kids except in the summer. During those months, its five vans travel among clinics that serve uninsured adults and musicians who are members of the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. In the summer, the vans park outside of the following Austin clinics: People’s Community Clinic, 2909 N. Interstate, 478-4939; El Buen Samaritano, 7000 Woodhue Drive, 439-0700; and the Volunteer Healthcare Clinic, at 4215 Medical Parkway, 459-6002. People can call those clinics about dental services and ask about the requirements, said Marsha Cook, executive director of the St. David’s program.
There are a few other dental clinics for low-income or uninsured people in Austin, Cook said. They include the Community Care Services Department’s RBJ Dental Clinic (overseen by the Travis County Healthcare District), 15 Waller St., 972-4820; and Manos de Cristo’s Dental Clinic, 1201 E. Cesar Chavez, 477-2319.
Most of the programs have eligibility requirements, and some have fees based on income. I tried calling but had no luck reaching anyone immediately.
I know the St. David’s program has sympathy for adults, but it hasn’t figured out how to help all of the school kids who need dental care. Middle and high school kids are next on the agenda. Perhaps someday there will be enough resources to help everyone.
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