Suspension Of Iowa Medicaid Integrated Health Homes On Hold

After UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Iowa (UHC) announced plans on December 7, 2017, to terminate coverage of the Medicaid integrated health home (IHH) services by the end of January 2018, the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) intervened on January 24, 2018, to halt the suspension. The IHHs are operated by community-based provider organizations that collaborate to provide coordinated, consumer-centered care for adults with serious mental illness (SMI) or children with severe emotional disturbance (SED). UHC believes the IHH services are duplicative of its existing care coordination services. After halting the UHC coverage termination, DHS began reviewing the . . .