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Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 2.1.2011
Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 2.1.2011
LDH News
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Shreveport Times: “State ban on 'bath salts' abused as a drug came none too soon”
In December Times reporter Melody Brumble first reported this health threat that was creating a flood of phone calls to the Louisiana Poison Control Center at LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. Two weeks later Gov. Bobby Jindal issued an emergency executive order that added six chemicals marketed as bath salts and plant food to the controlled drug law. Now, two weeks later, the Poison Control Center has reported a nose dive of emergency calls.
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State Health Department to Provide Meningitis Vaccines to Dillard Students
New Orleans – Students of Dillard University seeking a meningitis vaccine can get one at no cost tomorrow, Jan. 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lawless Chapel on the university campus.
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Louisiana’s Breastfeeding Rates are on the Rise
More of Louisiana’s low-income, at-risk new mothers participating in the state’s Nurse-Family Partnership Program (NFP) are choosing to breastfeed their babies.
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DHH Recognizes Health Care Providers for Working Toward Electronic Health Records, Encourages Others to be Part of State’s Health Care Future
Today, Louisiana Department of Health Hospitals Incoming Deputy Secretary Kathy Kliebert was joined by leaders from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and CHRISTUS Health Louisiana to support the Louisiana Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program and recognize Winn Community Health Center, the first federally qualified health center (FQHC) in the nation to receive an incentive payment.
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RFP for Residential Facility Staffing for Mental Health Clients
The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from qualified proposers to provide supervisory and direct care personnel for the 24 hour per day, 365 days per year operation of two transitional houses. Southeast Louisiana Hospital will contract with one provider to provide those services.
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RFP Third Party Liability Activities
The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from qualified proposers to perform the following activities as primary for the fee-for-service Medicaid recipient population and as secondary for Medicaid recipients enrolled in Coordinated Care Network (CCN)s after time has expired for the CCNs to bill and collect from responsible third parties: 1) develop and implement a cost avoidance process in conjunction with maintenance of the Medicaid resource file; 2) develop and implement a collection process for seeking reimbursement from liable third party health insurers for medical services provided under Title XIX and Title XXI; 3) perform annual hospital and long- term care provider reviews; 4) augment the fiscal intermediary (FI)’s Medicare Parts A, B, and D recovery efforts; 5) administer the Louisiana Health Insurance Premium Payment program (LaHIPP), and 6) submit optional innovative concepts such as asset verification services, special needs trust services, CMS RAC (Recovery Audit Contractor) activities, Express Lane eligibility assistance (data matches with the La. Department of Education, the La. Department of Revenue, etc.) as well as other concepts for consideration and evaluation based on usefulness, practicality, and likelihood of successful implementation.
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Secretary Greenstein announces freeze on Medicaid provider rate reductions for remainder of FY11, eliminates hospital outlier program reduction
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In Case You Missed It: Editorial Coverage of "Making Medicaid Better" Proposal
These letters to the editor reflect opinions and viewpoints submitted to media outlets regarding the "Making Medicaid Better" initiative.
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Federal Government Rejects LDH 'Disallowance'
BATON ROUGE – The Department of Health and Hospitals learned late Monday that the state will have to repay $239.5 million to the federal government for overpayments the agency made to fund LSU hospitals between 1996 and 2007.
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DHH Secretary Announces Kathy Kliebert as New Deputy Secretary
BATON ROUGE - The Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein announced today the appointment of Kathy Kliebert as deputy secretary of the department upon the departure of Anthony Keck.
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Louisiana Among First States to Offer Incentive Payments to Medicaid Providers for Electronic Health Records
Louisiana will be among the first states to offer incentive payments to Medicaid providers and hospitals for adopting, implementing or upgrading electronic health record (EHR) technology to treat patients more efficiently, reduce their administrative work and share health information securely among medical facilities.