Community Meeting regarding Recent Changes to Denver Health Managed Care Medicaid

Community Meeting regarding Recent Changes to Denver Health Managed Care Medicaid
Friday 12/12/14, 11:00 am at 1532 Galena Street, Aurora, CO 80010, Room 395
Hosted by P.J. Parmar, MD, Ardas Family Medicine

In response to concerns from Medicaid providers and patients, there have been some major recent changes to Denver Health Medicaid Choice (DHMC) which will benefit Colorado Medicaid patients. Now ANY primary care provider can be paid to see ANY DHMC patient (who they have a relationship with) at ANY time. In addition, ANY DHMC patient can be dis-enrolled from DHMC (changed to regular Medicaid), at ANY time (not just during certain months). Also, non-Denver Health providers can get paid for DHMC patients they previously saw for free, billing back to the start of 2014 (must be done by end of 2014). The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), the state entity overseeing Medicaid, has verbalized a commitment to eliminating the current passive enrollment process of Medicaid clients into DHMC, and these recent DHMC changes are to improve access to care until then. This meeting is so that patients and providers can better understand these recent major changes, can learn how to navigate the dis-enrollment, authorizations, and billing, and can express concerns remaining after these changes. Representatives from DHMC and HCPF will be present. This meeting is open to all, but office managers and providers may find particular use. RSVP for lunch to welcome@ardasclinic.com.