BRG Medicaid Update

Aug 19, 2020 | Medicaid

The brief highlights recent Medicaid policy developments in key states over the past week, including, but not limited to: – MA: MassHealth temporarily expands providers types that can order DME and home health services – MI: State rescinds policies that temporarily eased provider enrollment and revalidation requirements – MO: State expands Medicaid ABA coverage to include school-based services Click to read more.

Managed Care Friday

Aug 14, 2020 | Managed Care Friday

200K: The number of Medicare Advantage members across 23 states who will receive a free monthly membership to home delivery service, Shipt, through its new partnership with WellCare.  Going Downhill: Like an Alberto Tomba race, more insurers are pushing volume down and out of hospitals. BCBS Minnesota will require that certain hernia, gynecology, and orthopedic arthroscopy and foot procedures be performed in a non-hospital outpatient setting, as of October 2020. The insurer already established this policy for ENT and upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures in 2019. There will...