Medicaid Matters With Richard Yadon

Host Richard Yadon is joined by Jon Keeley, Vice President of Pharmacy Services at Principled Dynamics with responsibility for ProSourceRx a turnkey solution for physician dispensing. Today’s discussion will revolve around the goals of decreasing the cost of Healthcare through Impacting Physician Prescribing patterns.   With the HealthCare Reform,  the creation of Accountable Care Organizations and many other factors  we all know healthcare payers have to continue to evolve to survive. We must either be reactive or determine ways  to be proactive in today’s market place.   Sadly, the Medicaid payers often have a dilemma contracting physician’s to maintain the minimum panel requirements due to fee schedules that are lower than their commercial counterparts and prescribing requirements around pharmaceuticals that is generally brought with many demanding rules.  The confusion of a Physician dealing with many Medicaid payers in their area each with a different set of rules can be frustrating.

Host Richard Yadon and MHPA Director of Government Affairs and Interim Executive DirectorJoe Moser discuss today's Medicaid Managed Care.We'll take a look at the key developments of the past 12 months and then an insightful look into the future.Some of the topics we'll cover include:Medicaid policy changesDual EligiblesHealth Insurance ExchangesMedicaid Expansion  Learn more about MHPA at www.MHPA.org

Join Richard and his guest Dr. Dale Alverson, Medical Director, Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research University of New Mexico, as they discuss the uses, challenges, and implications of Telehealth and Medicaid health care. Topics of the discussion include: What is really Telehealth? How would it apply to Medicaid? Where is it being used successfully in Medicaid now? What are the challenges? Where do we go from here? What impact does this have on Health Information Exchange?  

Joining us for today's show is Leonard J. Kirschner M.D. M.P.H., Member, The National Advisory Board on Improving Healthcare Services for Seniors and People with Disabilities Now that the election is over and most states have declared their position on expansion, what happens now?  Where are we winning in Medicaid and where are we losing? What are the 3 things Medicaid must get right? How do we capitalize on the momentum? Where does the private sector land in all of this? We'll try to answer these questions and more!

Behavioral health is one of the hottest topics in Medicaid today.  Join host Richard Yadon as he explores the developments, innovations, and challenges of this issue. Our guests include: Danis Russell, CEO, Genesee County Community Mental Health Sheila Putnam, Director Medicaid Care Management, Priority Health