Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Medicaid Morass

The Division of Medicaid will execute three lucrative managed care contracts for the MississippiCan program  after the Contract Review Board took no action on them this morning. The Contract Review Board did not approve or reject the three contracts that were awarded to UHC, Molina, and Centene. The staff recommended that the Board approve the contracts. 


The staff recommended that the Board treat the proposals under Request for Quote standards (RFQ) instead of a Request for Proposal (RFP) standard since price was not an issue. Bill Moran led the charge to reject them but no one seconded his motion to do so.  However, no one offered a motion to accept the contracts as well. The Governor ordered the Division of Medicaid to submit the contracts to the Boar after the Mississippi Hospital Association protested. The contracts are now valid since the Board did not reject them. 

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13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Should never have been submitted to the CRB - these contracts out of their jurisdictions. Might be reason nobody made motion since it wasn't in their realm. I'm sure all the MS Hospital Assn cheerleaders aren't happy - was Ms. Wolfe there to 'report', or is she just going to wait until MHA puts out a press release and she copies/pastes it into an article?

Anonymous said...

I bet nobody saw that coming. Not even the review board.

Anonymous said...

A real slap in the face to so many high salary lobbyists

Anonymous said...

Go look at the campaign finance reports of every elected official that is whining about this.

Nobody else cares except the people with pockets lined with MHA contributions.

Anonymous said...

Waiting for a Becky Currie comment....

Anonymous said...

Republican Godfther Van White is representing MHA now. He was in charge of the hit ads taken out on Demorcats during the last two election cycles who are still in the House and Senate. Wonder if he will get David Baria's support for MHA?

Madison Doctor said...

@3:05--She is the expert on this matter. She speaks for all providers. Please leave her alone.

Anonymous said...

We should fire Becky Currie from The House. She is a RINO Democrat.

Anonymous said...

Interesting that the Darling of the Tea Party and Governor Bryant's Health Policy Advisor, Mizz Becky Currie (Former Nelms) is fighting AFP on the CON issue and is carrying the dirty water for MHA on an entitlement program that (real) Republicans work to shrink NOT EXPAND. Becky, you ma'am, are no Republican. CONs and expanding Medicaid services is what Dems do. Go home.

Anonymous said...

All those charges you make against Becky Currie ignore the fact that expanding Medicaid and keeping out competition is in her INTEREST. Most people would consider it to be a 'conflict of interest' but when you want to try to be a good TP Conservative, you have to first understand that all those conservative policies only should apply to others. Part of the TP creed - don't go messing in my back yard, just let me bitch about everybody else's.

Anonymous said...

An obvious failure by Bryant. He brought taggert in to set up a reformed contracting process and the impressive people the installed on the board now fail to do their jobs. They should have approved or rejected but guess outside influence prevailed and they became unable to do their duty. They all need to be fired and replaced with people who can do the job and I include Bryant.

Anonymous said...

8:06, I respectfully disagree. The board did their job, by doing nothing. This contract does not fall under the auspices of the Review Board, and they recognized the same by failing to respond. No need to set a precedent that would create problems down the road; should never have been sent to CRB and those "impressive people" that were installed recognized such. Except, of course, the one who wants to install his statistical expertise over the agency's.

Anonymous said...

There is nothing wrong with this process except for the fact that the MHA did not get their way after spending thousands in contributions to make sure they did.

Tells me that the process actually worked.


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