Medicaid and Managed-Care – Iowa

Iowa to hire private firms to help run Medicaid, By Tony Leys, January 20, 2015, Des Moines Register: “Gov. Terry Branstad plans to hire a private managed-care company or companies to help run the state’s Medicaid program, legislators and administration officials said Tuesday. Details are scarce on how the plan would work, but Branstad projects it would save $51.3 million from January through June 2016, its first six months. Managed-care arrangements generally involve private companies that oversee large health care programs and that share savings they obtain by making care more efficient. Iowa already has two such contracts for some services under Medicaid. The new arrangement apparently would involve a broad array of services, legislators said…”