- 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…”
Tag: Health clinics
Medicaid Expansion and Health Insurers
Medicaid insurers gear up for profit, By Phil Galewitz, March 8, 2013, USA Today: “After his back injury kept him out of work last year, Sergio Mera enrolled his family in Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor. These days when they need a doctor, the Meras travel less than a mile from their home to a new clinic. ‘They take good care of you,’ says Mera, 37, as he sits in an exam room with his wife and two kids. The clinic, affiliated with Molina Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest Medicaid managed-care plans, is one of about a dozen facilities the company is opening across the country to handle a wave of new customers in 2014. That’s when about 10 million more people are expected to sign up for Medicaid managed care under the Affordable Care Act, and as states shift enrollees into private plans, according to trade group Medicaid Health Plans of America…”
US Health Care System
This election, a stark choice in health care, By Abby Goodnough and Robert Pear, October 10, 2012, New York Times: “Joyce Beck, who runs a small hospital and network of medical clinics in rural Nebraska, is reluctant to plan for the future until voters decide between President Obama and Mitt Romney. The candidates’ sharply divergent proposals for Medicare, Medicaid and coverage of the uninsured have created too much uncertainty, she explained. ‘We are all on hold, waiting to see what the election brings,’ said Ms. Beck, chief executive of Thayer County Health Services in Hebron, Neb. When Americans go to the polls next month, they will cast a vote not just for president but for one of two profoundly different visions for the future of the country’s health care system…”