Page 36 - Provider Network News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Call this meeting to order. Welcome, everybody. Hope yall had a great thanksgiving and hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday Season coming up. This is a very important hearing for the United States senate. On november 4th, if my memory is correct, we had a meeting at the va. Sloane gibson, dr. Schulkin and some others were in the room. In terms of Va Health Service delivery to our veterans, veterans choice, consolidating programs, reimbursement rates so there wasnt any preference over another. A reality in our lifetime and in their lifetime. With that will come a number of decisions. This wil...

What youve probably thought about in terms of the enabling legislation for this particular program. If you dont do that, then youre building the transformed system on outdated policies that may or hey not have ever been appropriate. They just happened to get through congress and you have to live up to them because theyve been mandated to you. Im not going to get into a lot of questions except that the reason i continue to have this flavor to my discussion is i want to help you establish a plan that transcends your tenure and your positions. So do we. That continues when we get another presiden...

Trip sat outside watching the proceedings on video monitors. Several in the eastern iowa group here echoed the testimony that the state has not done enough to get the managed Care Companies ready for medicaid patients on january 1st. And it wasnt just medicaid recipients asking lawmakers to slow the rush. One representativ e of the iowa hospitata association told lawmakers no o oer state thats switched to a managed medicare system has tried to moved so many patients so fast. Live in des moines, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news governor branstad today extended the time period for medicaid providers ...

Medicare and Medicaid Services came to iowa last week to hear from those affected. And today, they ordered a 60day delay, pushing the rollout to march first. What the feds have said to them is, youre not ready. The Provider Network isnt robust, the transition isnt seamless, they cited several things that iowa is just not ready to go through with this plan. So it just gives us more time, just a little bit more time to make a seamless transition. Transition. Federal regulators told state officials iowa needs more time to work on the plan but they do anticipate approving it once the state can off...

Fiduciary duties around investments if you recall a representative of the treasurers did not come and explain how were a part of the large pool of funds and forgetting but still some outstanding questions at least from a board stand point i think that and over attorney will advise us on we may need to address in addition he wanted to you requested of the City Attorney to give the board kind of and then he hope the public who are here in the audience and those who might see that as a late point about the duty of the fiduciary and the multiple of that board sincerely does indeed guide our action...