New Mexico’s Human Services Department To Extend Contract With OptumHealth

Circle Connections: Policy & Regulatory Updates The Human Services Department has decided to extend for six months a contract with OptumHealth New Mexico to oversee non-Medicaid behavioral health spending. The decision was met with grumbling from lawmakers who have questioned Optum's performance in light of the upheaval in the behavioral health system.Optum's five-year contract expires Dec. 31. The proposed extension, through June, would have Optum continuing to manage behavioral health spending by HSD and other state agencies that is not funded by Medicaid. That would give the state time to put the contract to manage . . .