May 9 Local News Denton Says Lawmakers Will Remove CoventryCares From Medicaid System if Tough Bargaining Continues Kentucky Senator Julie Denton says the state’s largest private Medicaid company is underpaying and threatening healthcare providers, and she says lawmakers may kick the company out of the state Medicaid system if the behavior persists. CoventryCares is one of three new private Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) that began business in the commonwealth last year. […] By Kenny Colston May 9 Local News Denton Says Lawmakers Will Remove CoventryCares From Medicaid System if Tough Bargaining Continues Kenny Colston
Mar 19 Local News Lawmakers Take Medicaid MCOs to Task for Not Solving Pharmacy, Mental Health Care Issues Kentucky lawmakers continue to chastise three of the state’s Medicaid Managed Care organizations for mismanagement. Representatives of Kentucky Spirit, Wellcare of Kentucky and Coventry Cares appeared before the program review committee today. Legislators wanted to know whether they had solved problems brought up by health care providers in a January committee meeting. The MCOs all […] By Kenny Colston Mar 19 Local News Lawmakers Take Medicaid MCOs to Task for Not Solving Pharmacy, Mental Health Care Issues Kenny Colston
Feb 15 Local News Managed Care Executives Say They’ve Fixed Problems With Payments Officials with Kentucky’s Medicaid managed care organizations say they’re on track to resolve any problems with reimbursements to doctors and pharmacists. CoventryCares, WellCare and Kentucky Spirit began administering Medicaid statewide last fall, and they’re off to a rocky start. Executives with the three organizations are in Frankfort this week for a series of committee hearings. Doctors, […] By Kenny Colston Feb 15 Local News Managed Care Executives Say They’ve Fixed Problems With Payments Kenny Colston
Feb 13 Local News Managed Care Organizations Say Reimbursement Problems Are Resolved, But Pharmacists Disagree Kentucky’s Medicaid Managed Care Organizations say they have fixed a number of issues with reimbursements to pharmacists. CoventryCares, WellCare and Kentucky Spirit took over management of the state’s Medicaid system last year. Since then, doctors and pharmacists have come forward to say the organizations are poorly managed and the reimbursements for care are too low. […] By Kenny Colston Feb 13 Local News Managed Care Organizations Say Reimbursement Problems Are Resolved, But Pharmacists Disagree Kenny Colston
Feb 10 Local News Beshear Confident Medicaid Managed Care Problems Will Be Resolved Governor Steve Beshear says the problems with Kentucky’s new Medicaid Managed Care system will be resolved. Beshear pushed for the managed care system last year to take some of the administrative burden of Medicaid off of the state. But earlier this week, doctors, pharmacists and hospital officials told lawmakers there were significant problems with the […] By Kenny Colston Feb 10 Local News Beshear Confident Medicaid Managed Care Problems Will Be Resolved Kenny Colston
Feb 8 Local News Medicaid Providers Complain of Managed Care Mismanagement Kentucky’s private Medicaid providers say they need immediate changes in the state Medicaid system. Kentucky turned the system over to managed care providers four months ago. And today doctors, pharmacists and hospital executives told a Senate committee how disastrous the change has been. Kentucky currently contracts with four Managed Care Organizations, known as MCOs. Passport […] By Kenny Colston Feb 8 Local News Medicaid Providers Complain of Managed Care Mismanagement Kenny Colston