Medicaid has evolved to become an integral safety net program that provides access to health care for millions of Americans. Payment for this health care is either delegated to Medicaid or other third party insurance coverage. In 2012, 7.6 million people on Medicaid had other...
Identifying third party liability continues to be a challenge under the coordination of benefits for Medicaid plans. By law, plans are payers of last resort so whenever beneficiaries have other active coverage (OHI), those third parties should pay first. Currently, Medicaid plans are required to...
Since state Medicaid programs are responsible for the healthcare of several populations, skyrocketing prescription drug costs have become a major budgetary concern. Currently, health care spending is dominating many of their budgets and on a per capita basis, inflation-adjusted retail prescription drug spending has increased...
The federal government must quickly move away from the "Pay and Chase" model where Medicaid routinely makes improper claims payments (those that were the liability of primary insurance plans), then retrospectively identifies the claims with third party liability. To make this change, the government must...
It’s not easy to discover primary commercial coverage on your plan’s members at the point of sale—costing you time and money chasing reimbursements for claims that others should have paid. And so far with little luck: on average less than 17% of the money billed...