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PA Bulletin: Notice, Proposed Healthy PA Medicaid reforms and private coverage option

Posted on December 7th, 2013 at 8:00 AM

NOTICES

Proposed Healthy Pennsylvania Medicaid Reforms and Private Coverage Option—Improving Health Care for Pennsylvania; Federal Medicaid Section 1115 Application and State Plan Amendments

[43 Pa.B. 7186]
[Saturday, December 7, 2013]

 Healthy Pennsylvania is Governor Tom Corbett's plan to ensure that Pennsylvanians have increased access to quality, affordable health care. The Healthy Pennsylvania plan focuses on three key priorities: improving access; ensuring quality; and providing affordability. It is built upon common sense reforms that provide coverage options to this Commonwealth's most vulnerable citizens in a flexible and sustainable way that protects taxpayers. The Medicaid reforms and the Private Coverage Option encompassed in the Healthy Pennsylvania plan will:

 1. Increase health care access for more than 500,000 Pennsylvanians.

 2. Promote healthy behaviors, improve health outcomes and increase personal responsibility.

 3. Ensure that benefits match health care needs.

 4. Implement a strategy for sustainability by aligning the current Medicaid program with private coverage.

Click the link below to see the full notice:

http://www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol43/43-49/2284.html

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