Tag: New Hampshire
New Hampshire: Granite State providers seek changes to Medicaid managed care
April 1, 2019Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
CONCORD, N.H. - HOMES is trying to get out ahead of the next round of Medicaid managed care contracts in New Hampshire and incorporate protections for HME providers.
In February, HOMES members met with Sen. Tom Sherman, a Democrat who chairs the New Hampshire Health and Human Services committee that oversees the Medicaid program, to discuss ongoing concerns with one contractor in particular—New Hampshire Healthy Families, a for-profit that is part of Centene Corp.
“We are trying...
'I am so happy I could cry'
June 28, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor
In the July issue, I wrote a story about how the New Hampshire Medicaid program had moved to a cost-plus 10% instead of a cost plus 30% method of paying for certain home medical equipment. The changes was particularly difficult for complex rehab providers. Jan Soderquist, CEO of Rehab Equipment Associates in Manchester, said of providing gait trainers under the payment rules, which the state put in place April 1:
"You'd have to be a mail order provider to be able to do these products at...
New Hampshire
June 22, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor
CONCORD, N.H. - HME providers in New Hampshire are reeling from a change in the way the state's Medicaid program pays for products that require prior approvals and are manually priced.
Medicaid now pays cost plus 10% instead of cost plus 30% for these products-everything from hospital beds to CPAP devices.
"We're going to have to make some decisions as to whether or not we can continue to support their patient base," said Darryl Coplan, general manager of Keene Medical Products in Lebanon,...
New Hampshire
March 3, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor
CONCORD, N.H. - Providers are still trying to sort through the rubble after the state's Medicaid program in December began using Gulf South Medical Supply as its sole distributor for incontinence supplies.
Providers must now buy their supplies from Jacksonville, Fla.-based Gulf South and bill Medicaid an average of cost-plus-30%, depending on the product. That may sound like a good deal, but it's not, providers say: After they've covered their administrative and delivery costs, their...