“Nebraska’s new system for administering the bulk of its Medicaid program has gotten off to a rocky start. Nearly five months after its launch, the system has left behavioral health and home health providers fuming over unpaid claims and frustrated about getting care authorized for patients. Unpaid Medicaid claims topped $300,000 for one agency, prompting it to take out a line of credit for the first time in its 44 years. Providers also are worrying about how long they can afford to keep seeing Medicaid patients.”
LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):
Read this story in context with our earlier clipping about Medicaid estate recoveries covering room and board and you get a sense of how precarious Medicaid LTC services and funding really are, just as we warned in “CASSANDRA’S QUANDARY: The Future of Long-Term Care” using our “Index of Long-Term Care Vulnerability.”
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