Let's see here - sm

Could you provide a link to this? I've had news on - all morning and have not heard this. nm

BMI on electronic records by 2014 - sm

I can't seem to confirm it on a non-right wing site. - sm

What a surprise! LOL. (nm) - Nikki

But its true...and the left doesnt want to advertise this. - Not a good "selling point" for them.nm

Then please provide a non-right wing (sm) - Nikki

So, you are SO biased that you only believe left-wing - reports? uh huh..what I thought.nm

This is from an NBC station posted on youtube - BMI on EMR

Thank you. (nm) - Nikki

I posted some info and sites to check - Backwards Typist

This BMI is mainly to test children since they are becoming far more obese than prior school children. I think this answers your questions. Hope this helps. The first item is below on Ron Kind's amendment. The next site is ABC News from January. The next source is about the Advocacy Group protesting this. The last is the government HealthCare site. Note it states children’s BMI.

 The Healthy Choices Act--introduced by Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee--would establish and fund a wide range of programs and regulations aimed at reducing obesity rates by such means as putting nutritional labels on the front of food products, subsidizing businesses that provide fresh fruits and vegetables, and collecting BMI measurements of patients and counseling those that are overweight or obese.
 
Section 101 of the bill amends the Public Health Services Act by stating that health care providers must record the Body Mass Index of all children ages 2 through 18.  "The provision relates to all children in states that accept grants under the bill," a spokesperson for Rep. Kind told CNSNews.com. "However, it is important to note that no one is forced to come in for a doctor’s visit to get their BMI tested.  BMI will be taken at times when the child makes an otherwise scheduled doctor’s visit."

BMI is calculated by taking one’s weight in pounds and height in inches, multiplying that number by one’s height in inches and then multiplying that number by 703. Any number over 24 is considered overweight, with higher numbers resulting in a diagnosis of obese (BMI = [weight / (height x height)] x 703).
 
To pay for implementing BMI data gathering, Sec. 102 of the bill states that the federal government will give grants to states that meet certain criteria, including having “the capacity to store basic demographic information (including date of birth, gender and geographic area of residence), height, weight, and immunization data for each resident of the state.”
 
The grants also will pay for personnel and equipment necessary to measure patients’ BMI.
 
The grants also require that if a child’s BMI is greater than the 95th percentile for the child’s age and gender, the state will provide “information on how to lower BMI and information on state and local obesity prevention programs.”
 
Rep. Kinder's spokesperson said that any data used to generate a report on the BMI data collected would not include patients’ names.
 
The bill also requires HHS to share with Congress and other government officials, including the secretaries of education and agriculture, its analysis of the BMI data collected not more than one year after it gathers all of the data from states. 

 From ABC News: January 10, 2010

,……Under the existing Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, group health insurance plans can't discriminate based on an individual's health status by varying insurance premiums.

But the law does allow insurers to provide incentives tied to voluntary "wellness programs," either solely for participating in a workplace wellness program, or for meeting certain health and fitness benchmarks, such as reaching a certain body mass index target.

Those incentives can take the form of extra reimbursements, but they can't top more than 20 percent of the employer's cost of covering the employee.

The Senate bill would raise that figure to 30 percent, so an individual who doesn't meet the wellness goals could hypothetically be paying up to $1,410 more in annual premiums than an employee who met wellness goals.

The amount could be raised to 50 percent, with government approval. People with medical conditions that preclude participation would be offered an alternative program, the bill says. …..

Whole Article Here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HealthCare/advocacy-groups-protest-wellness-provision-senate-health-care/story?id=9516706

 http://www.healthcare-blog.com/2010/wellness-provision-in-health-care-bill-meets-protest/

 http://www.healthcare.gov/law/about/provisions/services/lists.html

Ah, now I understand why the docs have started using BMI in their dictations - Backwards Typist

I have had a couple doing it, too - now I know

Not only is obesity the number one killer of our children - but it is

Are you advocating listing all health mitigators front - and center?

Oh brother. Get a grip, will ya? - sm

Refuse funds, kinda like dems encouraged schools to do - over abstinence only programs? nm

Nobody encouraged any such thing, then or now, and - Apples and oranges comparisons

Great post. Thanks. (nm) - Nikki

Well, its even more laughable that we would have - "federal funding" to figure out why people are fat

Doesn't really take a bazillion bucks, does it? - sm

Interesting isn't it... - anon

I thought the analogy was perfect. - sm