State Moves Decision Timeline on Medicaid Redesign
The State’s Department of Community Health has pushed back the timeline for a decision on the redesign of the state’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program.
The state was originally supposed to announce its redesign decision in April. But Georgia Department of Community Health Commissioner David Cook says the state now expects to unveil its plans sometime this summer. He says the timeline change is mainly due to the large amount of stakeholder input the department received after the release of a consultant’s report. The report’s recommendations include an expanded managed care system for Medicaid.
“We got some very a robust response and frankly some very serious and interesting ideas that we wanted to flesh out.”
The department has received input from task force groups, online survey responses and more than 30 focus groups. Cook says the department plans to take all the feedback into account as it works to develop a new system.
“We’ve got to address the fiscal impact, the growth that’s associated, both in terms the number of people and in terms of utilization. But we want to do that in a way that improves quality of care and provides a better value for the taxpayers and patients.”
State officials plan to award vendor contracts early next year and hope to roll out a new program during the first half of 2014.
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