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Respiratory Syncytial Virus

Please include measles in the differential for all rash illness. Early symptoms of measles include runny nose, cough, red eyes and fever followed in about 3-5 days by a maculopapular rash that starts on the face and travels down the body. Conjunctivitis is the main symptom that distinguishes it from flu early in the onset of the disease. The incubation period (time from exposure to first symptoms) is generally between 7 and 21 days.

Most people do not have complications. However, complications include otitis media, pneumonia, and encephalitis, and are more likely to occur in children younger than 5 years of age and in immuno-compromised persons of all ages.

Measles is able to spread even in a highly immunized population. Therefore, health care providers should be aware that a febrile illness in a person with red eyes and cough could be a case of measles presenting before the rash develops. Rubella also has a rash develops first on the face and upper body, but it is a much milder illness.

A febrile illness with a rash developing first on the face and upper body should be presumed to be measles. Providers should notify their Maricopa County Department of Public Health immediately at 602-747-7111if measles (or rubella) is suspected, and test for both measles and rubella (IgM and IgG). If the patient is in a health care setting, they need to be placed in airborne isolation.

People concerned they might have symptoms of measles should call their local Health Department and/or an outpatient provider before going in to be seen so as to arrange for isolation during the evaluation (to prevent the possible exposure of others).

For information regarding vaccines, please read the following article:  Vaccine News

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Beginning April 1, 2012, AHCCCS Care members in Maricopa and Pima counties will be charged a $2.00 co-pay each way for medically necessary taxi rides for services such as going to and from the doctor or the pharmacy. This means that AHCCCS Care members will be charged $2.00 each time a taxi is called and comes to pick up the member.  For example, if the taxi goes from the member’s home to the doctor, the AHCCCS Care member will be charged $2.00 for that ride. If a taxi is called back to pick up the member at the doctor’s office to go to the pharmacy,  $2.00 will be charged for that ride. If that taxi does not wait at the pharmacy and a taxi is called to take the member back home, another $2.00 will be charged for that ride.   So the AHCCCS Care member’s total co-pay in this example will be $6.00.

This $2.00 co-pay will only be charged for persons in the AHCCCS Care program who 1) are 19 years or older 2) live in Maricopa and Pima counties, and 3) are enrolled in an AHCCCS Health Plan. This co-pay is in addition to the other co-pays that are charged such as for drugs, doctor visits and nonemergency use of the emergency room.

AHCCCS Care is for people who are: 1) not pregnant, 2) not 65 or over or 3) not determined disabled, or 4) do not have an eligible deprived child living with them and are not eligible for any other program.  For information on who is considered a deprived child, see Arizona Administrative Code R9-22-1427. 

If the AHCCCS Care member does not pay the co-pay, the taxi company can deny giving the member a ride.

These co-pays do not apply to:

• Individuals under age 19
• People determined to be Seriously Mentally Ill (SMI) by the Arizona Department of Health Services.
• People who are acute care members and who are residing in nursing homes, or residential facilities such as an Assisted Living Home and only when the acute care member’s medical condition would otherwise require hospitalization. The exemption from copayments for acute care members is limited to 90 days in a contract year.
• People who receive hospice care.
• American Indian members who have used at any time the Indian Health Service, tribal health programs operated under P.L. 93-638, or urban Indian health programs
• Family planning services and supplies.
• Services related to a pregnancy or any other medical condition that may affect the pregnancy

The taxi ride co-pay is required by AHCCCS Rule A.A.C. R9-22-711(F).  Please remember that the $2.00 co-pay for taxi rides only applies to AHCCCS Care members who are age 19 and older, who live in Maricopa and Pima Counties, and who are in AHCCCS Health Plans.  A co-pay will not be charged if you fall within one of the exceptions listed above.  More information about co-pays can be found in AHCCCS Rule R9-22-711.