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In the wake of an eye-opening audit of Passport Health Plan, a Democratic lawmaker is sponsoring a bill to tighten the oversight over such Medicaid managed-care programs.
- House Sends Senate Pill-mill And Medicaid Managed-care Fixes
The state House yesterday approved without dissent two bills aimed at improving Kentucky's health care. House Bill 217 addresses some "unintended consequences" of last year's "pill mill bill" by easing some of the bills regualtions....
- Bill To Make Medicaid Managed-care Firms Pay Up, And More Promptly, Nears Final Form In House And Will Get Attention In Senate
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The complaints by many health-care providers about Medicare managed-care firms' delay or denial of payment claims appears to be generating a bipartisan solution in the General Assembly. A bill on...
- Passport Health Claims State Violated Bidding Process And Will Make Medicaid Overpayments In Jefferson County As A Result
Passport Health Plan has charged that the state of Kentucky has violated its own bidding process and will spend as much as $80 million more than necessary per year under its new Medicaid managed-care contracts for the Jefferson County region. Tom Loftus...
- Legislators Question If Medicaid Is Ready For Managed Care
"State lawmakers on Thursday questioned whether the state has the resources and expertise to oversee moving the $6 billion Medicaid program to private, for-profit managed care companies," Beth Musgrave of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. Staff of...
- Judge Rules Passport Managed-care Plan For Medicaid In Louisville Region Is Subject To State Open Records Act
As Kentucky prepares to put more of its Medicaid program under a managed-care system to save money, a judge has ruled that the contractor running the program's only managed-care plan is a public agency subject to the state Open Records Act. Ruling...
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Bill filed to tighten oversight of Medicaid managed care programs
In the wake of an eye-opening audit of Passport Health Plan, a Democratic lawmaker is sponsoring a bill to tighten the oversight over such Medicaid managed-care programs.State Rep. Jimmie Lee of Elizabethtown filed House Bill 265, which requires the Department of Medicaid Services, part of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, "to assign contract oversight, performance and monitoring duties to department personnel." The bill was introduced in the House Tuesday.
Lee told the Lexington Herald-Leader's Beth Musgrave that the Medicaid department needs the expertise of employees who specialize in writing and managing managed-care contracts. In November, Passport's state audit uncovered "questionable spending on travel, food and lobbying," Musgrove reports. "I think we've learned a lot from that contract, and we don't want the same thing to happen again," Lee said. (Read more)
- House Sends Senate Pill-mill And Medicaid Managed-care Fixes
The state House yesterday approved without dissent two bills aimed at improving Kentucky's health care. House Bill 217 addresses some "unintended consequences" of last year's "pill mill bill" by easing some of the bills regualtions....
- Bill To Make Medicaid Managed-care Firms Pay Up, And More Promptly, Nears Final Form In House And Will Get Attention In Senate
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The complaints by many health-care providers about Medicare managed-care firms' delay or denial of payment claims appears to be generating a bipartisan solution in the General Assembly. A bill on...
- Passport Health Claims State Violated Bidding Process And Will Make Medicaid Overpayments In Jefferson County As A Result
Passport Health Plan has charged that the state of Kentucky has violated its own bidding process and will spend as much as $80 million more than necessary per year under its new Medicaid managed-care contracts for the Jefferson County region. Tom Loftus...
- Legislators Question If Medicaid Is Ready For Managed Care
"State lawmakers on Thursday questioned whether the state has the resources and expertise to oversee moving the $6 billion Medicaid program to private, for-profit managed care companies," Beth Musgrave of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. Staff of...
- Judge Rules Passport Managed-care Plan For Medicaid In Louisville Region Is Subject To State Open Records Act
As Kentucky prepares to put more of its Medicaid program under a managed-care system to save money, a judge has ruled that the contractor running the program's only managed-care plan is a public agency subject to the state Open Records Act. Ruling...