The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS – formerly the Department of Public Welfare) has issued a memo to Medical Assistance stakeholders addressing two issues involving implementation of the state’s Healthy Pennsylvania Medicaid expansion that have been brought to its attention.
The first issue is that individuals who enrolled in Medicaid in December were not assigned to a behavioral health managed care organization.
The second addresses screening of individuals who currently qualify for Medicaid under the General Assistance category who have behavioral health needs and who likely qualify for the “Healthy Plus” Medicaid benefits plan beginning in 2015.
See the state’s message to stakeholders outlining what these issues are about and how it plans to address them in this memo from the state’s Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.