Governor Terry Branstad is blasting Iowa health care providers who’re complaining his administration is moving too quickly to shift management of Medicaid to private companies…..
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Some health care providers are complaining they only recently got notice of the proposed rates for care of Medicaid patients in Iowa. Democrats in the legislature are calling for a delay in a key deadline. Health care providers must agree to the new rates by January 1st — or face a 10 percent reduction in payments from the state for care provided to Medicaid patients in the future. Branstad says this latest round of criticism reminds him of what was said about his Medicaid expansion plan in 2013….
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Three Democrats serving in the state senate say the people who “actually do the work” of caring for the more than half a million Medicaid patients in Iowa have asked for help to slow down the governor’s fast track toward managed care.