Are Medicaid Managed Care Plans Ready For The Justice-Involved Consumer?

We’ve written before about how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) now mandates change in covering people newly discharged from prisons and jails (PPACA & Medicaid Enrollment Post Incarceration, A New Opportunity To Serve Justice-Involved Consumers and The ROI Of Recidivism Prevention). Essentially, the rule, effective on January 1, 2014, means an estimated seven million ex-offenders can qualify for Medicaid as soon as they are released back into the community, as part of the Medicaid expansion population (see Health Care Reform Regs Streamline Medicaid Eligibility For State Prison Inmates).

But recent coverage of this rule . . .