Newsletter Articles | September 30, 2001
HealthChoices Comes To Pennsylvania’s Lehigh/Capital Region
OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
Industry News
On October 1, 2001 HealthChoices goes live in Pennsylvania's Lehigh/Capital Region, which includes the counties of Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Northampton, Perry, and York. This Zone, when implemented, will include approximately 167,000 people or 13 percent of the total statewide medical assistance (MA) population. HealthChoices is the name of Pennsylvania's mandatory MA managed care program to be implemented statewide throughout the Commonwealth. When HealthChoices is implemented statewide, it will include approximately 96 . . .