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Kaiser Family Foundation Survey on State Medicaid Managed Care ...

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About this surveyThe <str<strong>on</strong>g>Kaiser</str<strong>on</strong>g> Commissi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Medicaid</strong> and the Uninsured (KCMU) and Health Management Associates(HMA) surveyed <strong>Medicaid</strong> directors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC) to document state<strong>Medicaid</strong> managed care policies and programs as of October 1, 2010, and to collect informati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> likelypolicy directi<strong>on</strong>s in the near term and under health reform.The KCMU/HMA survey was emailed to every state <strong>Medicaid</strong> director in late December 2010. The surveyasked states to report <strong>on</strong> the <strong>Medicaid</strong> managed care arrangements that would be in operati<strong>on</strong> in <strong>State</strong>Fiscal Year 2011, including comprehensive managed care through c<strong>on</strong>tracts with risk-based managedcare organizati<strong>on</strong>s (MCOs) and primary care case management (PCCM) programs, as well as n<strong>on</strong>comprehensiveprepaid health plans (PHPs). <strong>State</strong>s were asked to complete <strong>on</strong>ly the secti<strong>on</strong>s relevant totheir <strong>Medicaid</strong> managed care programs. For example, states that operate PCCM programs but do notc<strong>on</strong>tract with MCOs were instructed to complete the PCCM secti<strong>on</strong>, but not the MCO secti<strong>on</strong>. However,all states were asked to complete an overview secti<strong>on</strong>, and all states with any form of managed carewere asked to resp<strong>on</strong>d to secti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong> quality, special initiatives, and health reform. <str<strong>on</strong>g>Survey</str<strong>on</strong>g>s werecompleted by state staff and resp<strong>on</strong>ses were received from every state and DC. This report is basedprimarily <strong>on</strong> informati<strong>on</strong> as recorded by states <strong>on</strong> the survey instrument. It was not possible toindependently validate all state resp<strong>on</strong>ses. In additi<strong>on</strong>, not all states resp<strong>on</strong>ded to all questi<strong>on</strong>s relevantto their managed care programs.In a few cases, at the request of a state <strong>Medicaid</strong> director, HMA staff partially completed the state’ssurvey resp<strong>on</strong>se based <strong>on</strong> publicly available informati<strong>on</strong> and then forwarded it to the state forverificati<strong>on</strong> and completi<strong>on</strong> of remaining items, or completed a state survey resp<strong>on</strong>se based <strong>on</strong> ateleph<strong>on</strong>e or in-pers<strong>on</strong> interview with state staff. Also, when necessary, HMA staff posed follow-upquesti<strong>on</strong>s to state staff by teleph<strong>on</strong>e or email to clarify survey resp<strong>on</strong>ses or obtain additi<strong>on</strong>alinformati<strong>on</strong>. In some instances, HMA staff supplemented state resp<strong>on</strong>ses based <strong>on</strong> web-based researchand using enrollment data collected for KCMU.The survey instrument is included as Appendix 14.11

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