Arkansas Provider Organizations Submit Proposals to State to Reduce Medicaid Spending; Selection Process Underway

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News On March 2, 2010, the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of Medical Services (DMS) started reviewing provider organization’s proposals to help DMS reduce Medicaid spending by $400 million for fiscal year 2011. The strategies include an estimate of the impact on the state’s Medicaid costs in fiscal years 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Each strategy submitted includes the provider organizations’ assumptions and methodology for the estimate; implementation steps, and a time line. Each also proposes the impact on consumers, provider organizations, the Arkansas Health System, and the community . . .