- N.C.’s new Medicaid payment system a ‘nightmare,’ some providers say, By Lynn Bonner, July 21, 2013, Charlotte Observer: “State officials say the new Medicaid bill-paying system is working better than expected. But for the company trying to get kids wheelchairs, the dentist who hasn’t been paid in a month and the providers who wait days to get their calls for help returned, the system is a near disaster. The state Department of Health and Human Services warned providers to expect a few bumps after the new Medicaid billing system came online July 1. For many, the bumpy weeks have been worse than they imagined, and they have not been told when the frustration will end…”
- New Medicaid computer system doesn’t end errors, By Nancy West, July 20, 2013, New Hampshire Union Leader: “Four months after the controversial $90 million Medicaid computer system finally began operating, some providers say they aren’t getting paid properly, while another said her office was being paid 10 times the expected amount on some claims. The Medicaid Management Information System has been frequently delayed since being contracted in 2005 to a firm now owned by Xerox. It is causing ongoing frustration, with no end in sight, according to Bruce Burns, Concord Hospital’s chief financial officer…”
Day: July 23, 2013
Rapid Rehousing – Minneapolis, MN
Hennepin County increases funding to meet escalating homelessness, By Rochelle Olson, July 21, 2013, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: “Nita Wagner was starting to feel more hopeful about her life. She’d been sober for two years, was collecting $800 in monthly child support payments from her toddler’s dad and had settled into a one-bedroom apartment in northeast Minneapolis. But then the payments abruptly stopped, leaving her scrambling to find a way to pay her August rent. ‘For this to be happening and stay straight, this is a challenge,’ said Wagner, who at 37 has drug addiction, prostitution and domestic violence in her past. ‘I won’t cave. I won’t give up, but it sickens me to know we might be going backward.’ Such abrupt and wrenching setbacks are all too familiar to families such as Wagner’s. Now they’re getting extra help from an intensive Hennepin County housing program administered through St. Stephen’s Human Services…”