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- This week, our In Focus section highlights a key component of Governor Rick Scott’s budget proposal – the implementation of a new Medicaid hospital payment methodology. The Governor’s budget aims to provide major funding increases to Florida’s public schools, offset Read MoreRoundup:
California Updates Timeframe of Dual Eligible Demonstration Program
Florida Releases Long Term Care RFI
Massachusetts Dual Eligible Draft RFP Released
New York Phase One Health Home Applicants Approved
Texas Waiver Approved by CMS
Pennsylvania Caseloads Continue to Decline
California Exchange Draft RFP Expected Next Week
- This week, our In Focus section highlights some of the key findings of the Fall 2011 Fiscal Survey of the States, released November 28, 2011 by the National Governors Association (NGA) and National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO). Surveys Read MoreRoundup:
Pennsylvania to Implement Pharmacy Limits
Florida Waiver Approval Delayed
Massachusetts Behavioral Health RFP Awards Expected by Year End
Georgia Exchange Recommendations Expected this Month
- This week, our In Focus section reviews the Medicaid managed care expansion RFP re-leased by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on November 16. The Department of Public Welfare previously released a public Discussion Paper on the statewide expansion of the HealthChoices Read MoreRoundup:
Georgia Selects Non-Emergency Transportation Vendors
New York Health System Redesign Proposals Released
Pennsylvania DOI Announces Intention to Operate Insurance Exchange
Indiana RBM RFI Released
- This week, our In Focus section reviews the Kansas Medicaid managed care RFP, released last week. On the heels of Missouri’s announcement to rebid its Medicaid managed care population, Kansas announced a rebid of the roughly 210, 000 current Medicaid Read MoreIn Focus:Roundup:
California ADHC Settlement Negotiations Continue
Imposition of Provider Rate Cuts in California Delayed
Pennsylvania Behavioral Health RFP Released
Illinois Legislative Session Ends Without Movement on Exchange Legislation or Provider Tax
- To say this has been a big year for Medicaid MCO RFPs is an obvious understatement. So far this year, there have been four Medicaid MCO RFPs completed (Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Arizona LTC) and three contract extensions that didn’t involve Read MoreIn Focus:Roundup:
California Releases Preliminary Two-Plan Capitation Rates
Georgia Gov. Cautiously Optimistic on Tax Revenue
Georgia Amendment Allows Amerigroup, Centene to go Statewide
Illinois Hospital Association Pushes Revamped Hospital Tax
- This week, our In Focus section highlights key takeaways from the 50-state Medicaid budget survey report released last Thursday, October 27, by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU) and Health Management Associates. The report, titled Moving Ahead Read MoreRoundup:
Providers Respond to CMS’ Approval of California Rate Cuts
Voluntary Enrollment of Dual Eligibles in Michigan Effective November 1
Pennsylvania Explains Caseload Drop
- We thank Jaimie Bern in HMA’s Boston office for this week’s review of the New Hamp-shire Medicaid managed care Request for Proposals (RFP). New Hampshire will be im-plementing a Medicaid managed care program for the first time beginning July 1, Read MoreRoundup:
Opposition Mounts to Proposed California Rate Cuts
Florida Prepares for Budget Shortfall
Michigan Revenue Collections Improve
- This week, our In Focus section reviews recent Medicaid MCO enrollment trends in thirteen states. Many state Medicaid agencies elect to post to their website monthly enrollment figures by health plan for their Medicaid managed care population. Read MoreRoundup:
California Adult Day Care Transition Stalls
Pennsylvania Caseloads Decline Following Eligibility Review
New York Medicaid Redesign Savings Projections Imperiled
Illinois Medicaid Care Coordination Project Moves Forward
- In December 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the State Demonstrations to Integrate Care for Dual Eligible Individuals, a competitive solici-tation for proposals to design person-centered models that coordinate primary, acute, behavioral and long-term supports and Read MoreRoundup:
Florida Managed Care Rates Finalized
Georgia Opens CHIP to State Employees’ Children
New York Achieves Medicaid Savings
New York Managed Care Rates Finalized
Pennsylvania Updates Hospital Readmission Policy
- This week, our In Focus sections reviews a package of Medicaid savings proposals unveiled on September 30, 2011 by Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services (DHS). The proposals are required under Act 32, the state’s FY 2011-2013 biennial budget, which directed Read MoreRoundup:
California Reconsiders Procurement Strategy for Dual Eligibles
Florida Inpatient Rates Finalized
New York Pharmacy Carve-In Began October 1, as did Migration of New Eligibility Groups into Mandatory Managed Care
New York Managed Behavioral Health Organizations Selected
