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For Medicaid programs that have good relationships with managed care contractors already in place, it's a "natural development" to add the population of seniors and people with disabilities, says Alice R. Lind, RN, MPH, senior clinical officer at the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) in Hamilton, NJ. "The timing is right now, because budgets are tight."
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Not surprisingly, the biggest current fiscal challenge for Delaware Medicaid is the dramatic increase in enrollment over the past two years, according to Rita M. Landgraf, secretary of the state's Department of Health and Social Services.
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Many of the payment reform approaches outlined by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) established by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are initiatives that states have pursued for some time, such as medical homes, says Neva Kaye, managing director for health system performance at the Washington, DC-based National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP).
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States are pursuing a number of reform models for changing the way health care providers are paid, reports Deborah Bachrach, special counsel at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a health law and consulting firm in New York City, and former New York Medicaid director
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Health homes are a model of care that many states are very interested in moving toward, according to Julia Paradise, associate director of the Kaiser Family Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU). Ms. Paradise is author of the January 2011 brief, Medicaid's New "Health Home" Option.
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Iowa Medicaid's disease management program, implemented in July 2010, has a focus that's a "little bit unique," according to Leslie Schechtman, DO, medical director of Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, Member Services. "We used a stratification methodology."
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Delaware's Medicaid agency has been designated as the lead agency for the purpose of administering federal funds for planning the state's health benefit exchange, reports Rita M. Landgraf, secretary of the state's Department of Health and Social Services.
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Evidence is mounting that a very small group of high-cost chronically ill clients accounts for the lion's share of costs in Medicaid programs.
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