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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Alabama Medicaid Agency employees are prepared to comply with another major provision of the national health care reform law that requires state Medicaid programs to increase payments to certain physicians.
The projected $40 million increase for the state was a major provision of the Affordable Care Act and was originally designed to attract new physicians to Medicaid to meet the health care needs of an expanded pool of Medicaid eligibles. According to a release from Montgomery on Wednesday, the increased payments are funded entirely by the federal government for 2013 and 2014. By 2015 the responsibility of maintaining the higher fees will fall to the state. To prepare for the change, Alabama Medicaid staff began work last May when the proposed rule was first issued.
According to a release from the Alabama Medicaid Agency on Wednesday, they will have to establish a new process to register and verify providers and to make significant updates to the Agency’s claims processing system. According to Sharon Moore-Grimes, Associate Director, Medical Services, one of the biggest challenges was the need to plan and prepare for the fee increase before the final rules were released by the federal government on November 1. She is quoted as saying “The final rule helped clarify many details but prior to that time we had to prepare for several potential scenarios.”
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