Behavioral Health Managed Care

The charge of Act 158 of the 2015 Regular Legislative Session was to provide transparency relative to Medicaid managed care programs. Within the Office of Behavioral Health (OBH), this involves the Coordinated System of Care (CSoC) program.

Pursuant to 42 CFR 431.420(c), the Louisiana Department of Health will hold a public forum to allow the public an opportunity to provide comment and to solicit feedback on the progress of the Healthy Louisiana Substance Use Disorder 1115 Demonstration Waiver. The public forum will be held on December 23, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. in room 118 of the Bienville Building. Should you be unable to attend the Public Forum, you may submit comments to missy.graves@la.gov.

The charge of Act 212 of the 2013 Regular Legislative Session was to provide transparency relative to Medicaid managed care programs. Within the Office of Behavioral Health (OBH), this involves the Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership (LBHP) and its included Coordinated System of Care (CSoC). To manage the LBHP, inclusive of CSoC, Magellan Health Services of Louisiana, Inc. (Magellan) was selected to administer the program as the statewide management organization (SMO). This report outlines responses to the requests made by the legislature in Act 212 relative to Magellan's management of care within the LBHP and CSoC.

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Behavioral Health, is inviting qualified proposers to submit proposals for implementing a Statewide Management Organization/Managed Behavioral Health Care Organization for the Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership which includes both Medicaid and Non Medicaid child and adult populations.