Board approves $297M new Medicaid system

Board approves $297M new Medicaid system

February 23, 2012

The 20-year-old Medicaid computer system is getting a $297 million upgrade, the Board of Public Works voted unanimously on Wednesday. [...more]

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State gets $28.3 million bonus for children’s Medicaid enrollment

State gets $28.3 million bonus for children’s Medicaid enrollment

December 29, 2011

Maryland will receive a $28 million performance bonus from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for fiscal year 2011 for its consistent efforts to identify and enroll eligible children in Medicaid and CHIP coverage. [...more]

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Broad array of funding recommended for Health Benefit Exchange

December 13, 2011

The Health Benefit Exchange Board recommended Monday a broad based funding approach to pay for a federally mandated state health insurance program, now estimated to cost up to $30 million in 2014 and $60 million by 2016. “The board is in agreement there should be some sort of a transactional fee, a broad based fee, and funding for the exchange that needs to come from multiple places to ensure sustainability and stability,” said Rebecca Pearce, Health Benefit Exchange executive director. [...more]

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Audit finds Medicaid funds paid to dead people out-of-state

Audit finds Medicaid funds paid to dead people out-of-state

December 8, 2011

The state could save millions of dollars by comparing the list of people receiving Medicaid with the Social Security Administration’s Master Death File, according to a report from the Office of Legislative Audits. [...more]

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Committee hikes school aid to keep spending per pupil the same

Committee hikes school aid to keep spending per pupil the same

March 17, 2011

As expected, the education appropriations subcommittee in the House boosted school aid for fiscal 2012 so that all local school systems will receive the same amount per-pupil as they did last year. In his budget, Gov. Martin O’Malley had proposed freezing education funding, but enrollment growth was going to produce less money per student. Education advocates and teachers unions had lobbied heavily for a restoration of the aid. [...more]

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New health care funding assessments could jeopardize $1 billion in Medicaid funds

New health care funding assessments could jeopardize $1 billion in Medicaid funds

February 7, 2011

About $1 billion in federal Medicaid assistance could be jeopardized as the Health Services Cost Review Commission implements the statewide medical cost increase included in Gov. Martin O’Malley’s fiscal 2012 budget, raising an additional $331 million in state funds. [...more]

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Maryland Medicaid could save $167 million on prescriptions, report says

Maryland Medicaid could save $167 million on prescriptions, report says

December 28, 2010

Maryland Medicaid could save $167 million over the next decade by taking a more market-oriented approach, according to a new report. “Medicaid is one of the few pharmacy benefit programs that still relies heavily upon a fee-for-service approach,” said Mark Merritt, president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA). [...more]

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DeVore tells Joint Audit Committee he’s been fixing problems

DeVore tells Joint Audit Committee he’s been fixing problems

December 15, 2010

Outgoing Juvenile Services Secretary Donald DeVore told the legislature’s Joint Audit Committee Tuesday that when he received the findings of a scathing audit that exposed a host of large problems with record-keeping, financial management, contracts, monitoring and personnel in his department, he didn’t get defensive. Instead, DeVore got to work. [...more]

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Medical benefits administration needs better controls to protect against fraud, audit finds

Medical benefits administration needs better controls to protect against fraud, audit finds

December 14, 2010

Widespread lack of accountability may have led to millions of dollars wasted by the Medical Care Programs Administration of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, an audit released Monday found. The medical administration spent $6.8 billion to provide low-income residents with health care benefits like Medicaid in the last fiscal year. The General Assembly’s Joint Audit Committee will review the audit this afternoon (Tuesday). [...more]

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Most of Medicaid’s $829 million in savings comes from taxes on insurance premiums

August 4, 2010

Most of the state’s estimated $829 million in “savings” on Medicaid spending from federal health care reform comes not from reduced costs, but from taxes on new insurance coverage generated by the new law. A study by the Hilltop Institute found that the state government would come out $829 million ahead over the next 10 years because the new law would help cover 358,000 uninsured people, and this would produce $576 million in new premium assessments. [...more]

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