Panel to advise DHH on delivery system
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Development of a plan to implement a new health-care delivery system for the state’s poor and uninsured is underway, state Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine said Tuesday.
Levine told an LSU Health Care Services Division conference that he has appointed a 10-person committee to advise his agency on the revamp.
Levine said the panel will assist DHH in fulfilling a legal mandate to create a patient-centered medical home model of care required in Louisiana’s Health Care Reform Act of 2007.
Medical home models rely on preventive care, management of chronic disease and coordination of health-care services through public and private provider networks, including physicians, specialists and hospitals.
“Instead of reforming our system, we have to talk about transforming our system,” Levine said.
The state allocated some $7 billion for the Medicaid program for the poor and uninsured for the current fiscal year.
“Just because we have Medicaid doesn’t mean we have access,” Levine said.
Levine said access is a major hurdle any new plan must resolve.
In addition, he said Medicaid must change from a fee-for-services program to one that takes into account the type and quality of care that is delivered when payments are made.
Levine said the system must also get away from a mindset that the future of health care is in “bricks and mortar.”
Instead it must focus on people, technology uses and biosciences, Levine said.
Levine issued a news release Tuesday naming those who will sit on the Medicaid Reform Committee.
The panel will assist DHH as it crafts the federal applications necessary to implement what is being called “Louisiana Health First” — a system of provider service networks. The state would seek approval of a demonstration project to test its viability.
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