Illinois HFS Update On Medicaid Redetermination Project; Questions & Answers For House-Senate Human Services Appropriations Committees,September 17, 2013

September 17, 2013
Illinois HFS Update On Medicaid Redetermination Project; Questions & Answers For House-Senate Human Services Appropriations Committees, September 17, 2013
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) launched the Enhanced Eligibility Verification Project, as part of the Illinois Medicaid Redetermination Project (IMRP), to clear a several-year backlog of annual eligibility redeterminations and to comply with a 2012 legislative mandate to improve its processes to ensure that eligibility for Medicaid benefits is verified on an annual basis. The state is in the process of moving all Medicaid beneficiaries from fee-for-service into managed care . . .