Fierce Healthcare May 19, 2022
Medicaid managed care plans need to prepare for “unprecedented coordination” with state officials to ensure beneficiaries continue to get care after the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) ends, experts said.
Officials with the think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities outlined how state Medicaid agencies could be falling behind with potentially only five months to go before the PHE expires and with it a requirement to redetermine the eligibility of all beneficiaries.
States can rely on Medicaid managed care plans to help with reaching out to beneficiaries on Medicaid and to relay key information on how to reapply for coverage.
Managed care plans “tend to be in closer contact with [the] beneficiary and have information fed...