The Veterans Affairs Department will suspend enrollment on Friday for higher-income veterans who are seeking health care for ailments like heart disease and diabetes that are not related to their military service.
The university's president, Eric Kaler, announced that his school would suspend enrollment in current and upcoming drug studies in the Department of Psychiatry until they could be reviewed by an outside institutional review board (IRB).
Combine that with the fact that many states had to suspend enrollment outreach, or divert enrollment staff to deal with the chaos of the moment, and there's reason to think we will see a pronounced, widespread, and enduring "CHIP dip," as some academics call confusion-based enrollment depression.
Last November, for example, Mr. Principi announced that in the 2003 fiscal year he would suspend enrollments by veterans in "Category 7" -- that is, those who are not disabled or poor and do not have service-connected medical problems.
Melissa Mack, a Kaplan spokeswoman, said the company suspended enrollment at the two campuses pending an investigation of the G.A.O.
In April, New York suspended enrollment in the managed long-term care plans run by VNS, including VNS Choice, the largest in the state with more than 20,000 enrollees.
The Food and Drug Administration temporarily suspended enrollment of new patients in two gene therapy trials for liver cancer run by the Schering-Plough Corporation that used an approach similar to the Pennsylvania study.
The Washington Post Company's Kaplan Inc. unit suspended enrollment on Friday at its campuses in Pembroke Pines, Fla., and Riverside, Calif., where undercover investigators for the Government Accountability Office found deceptive practices by admissions officials.
State officials have suspended enrollment in New York's largest managed long-term care plan for frail elderly and disabled people, and investigators have begun examining the relationships between such plans, which are financed by Medicaid, and the social adult day care centers that send them new customers.
Nonetheless, an independent safety committee decided to suspend study enrollment and eventually terminated the trial due to serious adverse events and concern about the risk outweighing any benefit.
The implication in "Day Centers Sprout Up, Luring Fit Elders and Costing Medicaid" (front page, April 23) and "State Suspends Enrollment in an Adult Care Plan Amid Concerns Over Fraud" (news article, April 26) that we have been engaging in improper marketing or enrollment is deeply disturbing.
