Arkansas Medicaid Program Likely to Eliminate Fee-for-Service Reimbursement

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News The Arkansas Medicaid program is in the process of developing a strategy to slow the rate of Medicaid cost growth; based on comments by Governor Mike Beebe, it is likely that the strategy will eliminate the state’s use of fee-for-service reimbursement for provider organizations. The state’s Medicaid budget doubled from $1.9 billion in 2001 to $3.7 billion in 2009; the program has been expanding by an average of six percent per year since 2006. On February 26, 2010, Governor Beebe expressed his support for overhauling . . .