Managed care news from FierceHealthcare
NewsLeading hospitals forgo managed care, burdened by requirements
To balance their cash-strapped budgets and prepare for an additional 16 million Medicaid enrollees under health reform, states are turning to managed care, hoping it will improve care coordination Read more...
Kentucky pushes massive statewide Medicaid managed-care plan
State regulators late last week issued a request for proposal for managed-care organizations to create a health plan that would cover the state's entire Medicaid program. Kentucky's current Medicaid Read more...
More long-term-care patients join managed care plans
To rein in rising Medicaid costs, states are increasingly requiring their frailest and most expensive patients--the elderly and disabled who need long-term care--to enroll in managed care plans, Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Watch web ratings to avoid managed care de-selection, MGMA speakers say
You may feel your patients are largely satisfied with your practice or hospital, and you may even be right. The thing is, even if a small percentage of them (even 5 percent) are out there writing up Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: FL agency slams Medicaid pilot
Florida legislators aren't satisfied that a state program that funds Medicaid patients with flat payments to private health management firms has had its desired effect. They concluded that program, Read more...
L.A. sues Blue Shield of CA over cancellations
Engaging in yet another battle with the state's health plans, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has filed a lawsuit contending that Blue Shield of California illegally canceled the policies Read more...
PacifiCare restores canceled policies
Health plan PacifiCare of California has agreed to restore coverage to consumers whose individual policies, the state says, were canceled unfairly. Under the terms of its agreement with state's Read more...
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