Weekly News Wire | December 20, 2021
DC Is Rebidding Its Medicaid Health Plan Contracts; Behavioral Health Service Added To Benefits
On November 19, 2021, the District of Columbia (DC) Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) released a request for proposals (RFP Doc578403) to rebid the district’s Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) contracts to include all levels of behavioral health services. This addition moves intensive community-based mental health and addiction treatment services into the managed care program. Currently these intensive services are carved out of the MCO contracts and provided through the fee-for-service program.
The current MCOs are AmeriHealth Caritas DC, MedStar Family Choice DC, and CareFirst Community Health Plan DC (formerly known as Trusted Health Plan . . .
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