This week, our In Focus section reviews the West Virginia Mountain Health Trust request for proposals (RFP) released by the West Virginia Department of Administration (DOA) for the Department for Health and Human Resources (DHHR) on December 17, 2019. Mountain Health Trust (MHT) is the statewide physical and behavioral Medicaid managed care program. West Virginia will award contracts, worth over $1.5 billion, to three managed care organizations (MCOs), with implementation beginning July 1, 2020.
1022 Results found.
Health Management Associates Acquires California-based Firm NPO Solutions
Today, Jay Rosen, founder and president of Health Management Associates (HMA), announced the acquisition of NPO Solutions, a California-based management consulting firm that specializes in expanding the capacity of social sector organizations.
Jonathan Blum to Join HMA as Managing Principal
Jonathan (Jon) Blum will join HMA as a managing principal on Aug. 31 working out of the Washington, DC office.
He has more than 20 years of senior-level experience working in public and private healthcare financing organizations, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Hospital Charges and Reimbursement for Medicines: Analysis of Cost-to-Charge Ratios
This report is an update to a previous report examining hospital markups for separately paid drugs. Our prior analysis examined hospital charges and reimbursement for 20 drugs and found that hospitals marked up charges for those drugs, on average, 487 percent of their acquisition cost. We also found that hospitals receive 252 percent of estimated hospital acquisition cost from commercial payers. Hospital reimbursement data was obtained from the Magellan Rx Management Medical Pharmacy Trend Report™: 2016 Seventh Edition (the Magellan report) and charges were calculated from Medicare claims data. For more information, please refer to our prior analysis.
HMA Expands West Coast Footprint, Opens Office in Los Angeles
Health Management Associates (HMA), a leading independent national consulting firm specializing in publicly funded healthcare, continues its growth with the opening of a new office in downtown Los Angeles.
Health Management Associates Acquires California Firm Care Integration Partners
Today, Jay Rosen, founder and president of Health Management Associates (HMA), announced the acquisition of California healthcare consulting firm Care Integration Partners (CIP).
Health Management Associates, Community Care of North Carolina Form Strategic Partnership
Today, Health Management Associates (HMA) and Community Care of North Carolina, Inc. (CCNC) announced the formation of a strategic partnership that will leverage the complementary skills and expertise of both organizations to offer providers and payers innovative solutions for the challenges of today’s healthcare landscape.
Health Management Associates to Acquire Firm Founded by Seema Verma
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Jay Rosen, founder and president of Health Management Associates (HMA), announced the signing of an agreement by which HMA will acquire SVC, a consulting firm which is owned by Seema Verma, founder and president, and recently confirmed Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
SVC will become HMA Medicaid Market Solutions, a new subsidiary of HMA.