News Report | March 25, 2021
Nevada Medicaid Plans Begin Implementing 6% Reduction To Provider Organization Rates
The Nevada Medicaid program is implementing a 6% rate reduction. The Nevada Division of Health Care Financing and Policy (DHCFP) notified provider organizations on December 11, 2020, that it intended to recoup past payments from its Medicaid managed care plans and fee-for-service provider organizations for services rendered as of August 15, 2020.
The cut affects behavioral health outpatient treatment, special clinic-addiction treatment agency model, psychologist, behavioral health rehabilitative treatment, applied behavior analysis, and inpatient psychiatric/addiction treatment services provided by a general acute hospital. Rates will not be cut for freestanding psychiatric hospitals, certified community behavioral health . . .