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To: Anthony Wong who wrote (459)	7/3/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 1722

Two States Won't Provide Viagra Under Medicaid, NYT Reports Bloomberg News July 3, 1998, 8:16 a.m. PT Two States Won't Provide Viagra Under Medicaid, NYT Reports Washington, July 3 (Bloomberg) -- New York and Wisconsin said they plan to disregard the U.S. government's order that state Medicaid programs must pay for Pfizer Inc.'s impotence drug Viagra, the New York Times reported. The National Governors' Association said states should have the option to cover the drug under the Medicaid health care program for the poor, adding that coverage shouldn't be required by the federal government, according to the Times. In a letter to governors, Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, the administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration, said state Medicaid programs must cover Viagra to treat male impotence, the paper said. In a letter to the Clinton administration in May Governor Lawton Chiles of Florida and Governor Michael Leavitt of Utah wrote that ''a nationwide mandate for coverage of Viagra through Medicaid would cost the states and the federal government over $100 million annually.'' (NYT A12 7/03 www.nyt.com) --Laura Cohn in Washington (202) 624-1834 /jrc