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Tennessee announces Medicaid managed care awards
Health Management Associates
The state of Tennessee completed its evaluations of proposals submitted for its TennCare statewide Medicaid managed care reprocurement. The three incumbent Medicaid managed care plans — UnitedHealthcare, BlueCare Tennessee and AmeriGroup — were awarded contracts under the new contracts, outpacing rival bids by Aetna, Centene and Cigna.
States expecting to get Medicaid cases from federal website
The Associated Press via The Washington Post
Medicaid applications have been sent to states so they can enroll people, beginning with a handful of places where technical problems that have marred the new insurance marketplace are expected to be less of an issue.
Virginia governor-elect to reappoint state health secretary, Bill Hazel
The Washington Post
Virginia Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe will keep Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's health secretary as his own, a choice that could help the new governor sell Medicaid expansion to wary Republicans but that also infuriates some abortion rights activists.
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Medicaid expansion holds final meeting of year in Virginia
The Associated Press via The Washington Post
The Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission of Virginia held its final meeting of 2013 — a meeting Sen. Emmett Hanger described as an informational meeting with presentations from experts on issues like Medicaid fraud and federal health care law revenue provisions.
Docs, Dems call for Medicaid expansion
WRAL-TV
tate lawmakers decided against expansion of Medicaid in North Carolina, but they are being asked to reconsider. A group of Democratic leaders and community advocates asked legislative leaders to call a special session to reverse their decision and take the federal government up on the offer of funds.
Healthy Indiana Plan and the Affordable Care Act
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Prior to the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, a number of states used Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Waivers to expand coverage to adults and to operate Medicaid programs in ways not otherwise allowed under federal rules. Beginning in January 2008, Indiana began enrolling adults in its new Healthy Indiana Plan, which was authorized under Section 1115 waiver demonstration authority.
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In Nevada, the Republican governor who doesn't completely hate Obamacare
The Washington Post
The biggest threat to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's future in the Senate isn't the success or failure of the Affordable Care Act. Instead, it's the Republican governor of Reid's home state who has embraced Obamacare — or at least worked to implement it effectively.
Frustration grows over delay in docs' pay raise
Georgia Health News
Nearly a year after it was supposed to take effect, the physician pay hike for Medicaid services still hasn't been fully implemented in Georgia and other states. The delays have come in states, including Georgia, that use managed care in their Medicaid programs, a physicians organization said.
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2013-2014 Best Practices Compendium on sale
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