Turquoise Health & Wellness Status Update For New Mexico Medicaid

This document is a copy of a presentation given October 9, 2014, by Turquoise Health and Wellness, a New Mexico behavioral health provider organization to the state Human Services Department and the state’s Centennial Care Medicaid managed care organizations (MCO). Turquoise is a new organization formed in 2013 to assume caseloads after the state imposed a Medicaid payhold on the existing behavioral health provider organizations delivering publicly funded behavioral health services. In this presentation, Turquoise said MCO reimbursement delays and claims denials since January 2014 have severely impaired its sustainability . . .