{"id":4209,"date":"2016-05-24T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T23:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2016-05-26T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T20:51:20","slug":"medicaid-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4209","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicaid is one of the largest programs run by State government with a budget of $1.7 billion in state and federal funds per year; the goal is to maximize savings while improving the quality of health care for Alaskans.\u00a0 In April of this year, the Legislature passed a Medicaid reform bill, SB 74.\u00a0 The Department of Health and Social Services has calculated savings from the bill to be $33 million next year and up to $113 million by fiscal year 2022.\u00a0 Reform measures include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adding new tools to stop fraud and prevent waste and abuse of funds<\/li>\n<li>New delivery models focused on payments for quality health care<\/li>\n<li>Expanding the use of telemedicine<\/li>\n<li>Taking advantage of a change in federal rules to maximize 100% federal payments from Medicaid for Alaskans who are also eligible for Indian Health Services<\/li>\n<li>Expanding primary care management<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring and reporting requirements for reform measures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Chair of the Senate Health and Social Services Committee, my staff and I were involved with my colleagues in drafting and passing SB 74.\u00a0 My office will continue to work on ways to improve our Medicaid program throughout the interim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicaid is one of the largest programs run by State government with a budget of $1.7 billion in state and federal funds per year; the goal is to maximize savings while improving the quality of health care for Alaskans.\u00a0 In April of this year, the Legislature passed a Medicaid reform bill, SB 74.\u00a0 The Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}