Everyone can listen in on this meeting. The review group's meeting
will be 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. June 25 via teleconference. Those
interested can call 888-808-6959 and enter conference code 8509227702.

Letters to the editor: letters@news-jrnl.com

Daytona Beach News Journal
Panel to review Medicaid guidelines for antipsychotic drugs
By M.C. MOEWE
Staff Writer

A panel named this month to discuss changing state guidelines on
paying for antipsychotic drugs for children will meet for the first
time June 25.

At stake is the future treatment of more than 18,000 children in
Florida currently receiving atypical antipsychotics medication for
conditions ranging from ADHD to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

The number of children in the Florida Medicaid program prescribed the
powerful drugs has nearly doubled from 9,364 kids in 2000 to 18,137 in
2006, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported in January.