Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 12.06.2011
Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 10.06.2011
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Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 10.06.2011
Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein announced today that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has given the green light to the state's BAYOU HEALTH program.
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein was joined by legislators, advocates, health care providers and Health Plan representatives today at the Mahalia Jackson Center to announce the BAYOU HEALTH enrollee empowerment initiative.
Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 10.06.2011
Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 9.22.2011
This document pulls together the quality strategy components detailed in the administrative rules and the request for proposals (RFP) issued for the CCN program and serves to meet the requirements specified by the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 438.202, which requires the development and maintenance of a Medicaid Quality Strategy.
Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 7.22.2011
The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from qualified and experienced proposers that provide Independent Verification & Validation (IV & V) services for MMIS enterprises and MMIS replacement projects. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals seeks to obtain an IV&V contractor to perform two areas of IV & V services: the monitoring of operations of the existing MMIS, and IV & V services for the Design, Development and Implementation (DDI) of a replacement MMIS. The MMIS Replacement Project DDI is intended to replace the entire MMIS Enterprise including, but not limited to, claims processing, pharmacy point of sale (POS), data warehouse (MARS/DW), authorized services, and other support systems with a state-of-the-art, HIPAA compliant, rules-driven, on-line, real-time, web-based MMIS that is versatile in its architecture, structure, and code to support the evolving business needs of Louisiana’s Medicaid program. The IV&V Contractor will verify the DHH chosen solution meets business and technical requirements in order to obtain CMS Certification for the chosen MMIS Replacement.
Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 7.15.2011