Medicaid Network Adequacy Standards and Value Options Maryland Carve Out MHBE Network Adequacy and ECP Workgroup Shannon M. McMahon Deputy Secretary, Health Care Financing Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene May 20, 2015 Elements of Discussion • Provide an overview Medicaid Network Adequacy requirements; • Introduce role of Value Options (VO) Maryland in Medicaid; • Describe elements of VO’s provider directory; • Discuss data available concerning its providers and network; • Discuss possibility of using VO provider network data as a proxy for understanding the denominator of BH providers participating in MD QHP networks. 2 Federal Medicaid Network Adequacy Requirements • 42 CFR 206 requires the single state Medicaid agency to assure availability of services covered under the State plan (e.g. FFS) are available and accessible to enrollees of MCOs, PIHPs, and PAHPs. • This requirement applies to Maryland’s 8 MCOs as well as to the state’s contracts with Value Options for behavioral health and substance use services, and DentaQuest for dental services. 3 Federal Medicaid Network Adequacy Requirements continued • The MCOs/VO are required to establish and maintain a network that considers: • (i) The anticipated Medicaid enrollment; • • (ii) The expected utilization of services; (iii) The numbers and types (in terms of training, experience, and specialization) of providers required to furnish the contracted Medicaid services including those who are not accepting new Medicaid patients; (iv) The geographic location of providers and Medicaid enrollees, considering distance, travel time, the means of transportation ordinarily used by Medicaid enrollees, and whether the location provides physical access for Medicaid enrollees with disabilities. • 4 Maryland Medicaid Network Standards • In addition to the federal network adequacy standards, Maryland regulations require MCOs to: • provide a complete network of adult and pediatric primary care, specialty care, ancillary service, vision, pharmacy, and home health; • establish mechanisms to ensure that network providers comply with access requirements, monitor regularly to determine compliance, and take corrective action if there is failure to comply. 5 Maryland Medicaid Network Standards continued • Medicaid requires an enrollee-to-PCP ratio of 200:1 – However, Medicaid may approve a ratio of up to 2,000:1 for adults, and 1,500:1 for children under the age of 21 • An MCO must have a provider network that ensures enrollees have access to primary care, pharmacy, OB/GYN, diagnostic laboratory, and X-ray. • An MCO must provide services in: – Urban areas, within 10 miles – Rural areas, within 30 miles – Suburban areas, within 20 miles 6 Maryland Medicaid Network Standards continued • DHMH requires MCOs to provide all medically necessary specialty care. – If MCO doesn’t have the appropriate in-network specialist needed to meet the enrollee’s medical needs, MCO must arrange for care with an out-of network specialist and compensate the provider. • Regulations for specialty care access require that each MCO have an in-network contract with at least one provider statewide in the following medical specialties: Allergy Dermatology Endocrinology 7 Infectious disease Nephrology Pulmonology Maryland Medicaid Network Standards continued • Additionally, each MCO must include at least one innetwork specialist in each of the 10 regions throughout the State for the following eight core specialties: Cardiology Otolaryngology Gastroenterology Neurology 8 Ophthalmology Orthopedics Surgery Urology Coming Down the Pike…New Federal Network Adequacy Standards for Medicaid? • • • • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been working on what has been reported to be a “substantial rewrite” of the Medicaid managed care regulations. The regulations have not been substantially changed in over 13 years. CMS has been working on the new regulations for more than a year. Anticipate that they will include new standards for long term care services offered though Medicaid MCOs as well as: – more robust data collection; – stronger anti-fraud policies, and – new requirements for provider networks. 9 Value Options Maryland • • • 10 Medicaid and the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) is jointly working with ValueOptions to serve as the state’s Administrative Services Organization (ASO) to manage the carve out behavioral health services from its managed care program, with added performance risk. Specifically, the State carved out all SUD services, which were previously provided by the managed care organizations (MCOs) and are now delivered fee-for-service through an Administrative Services Organization (ASO). Specialty mental health services, which were already carvedout of MCOs are included in the ASO contract which is now overseen by Medicaid. Provider File Layout Process • ValueOptions currently receives a weekly electronic provider file from MMIS. • VO and DHMH have worked together to develop a provider file layout which specifies format/frequency. • VO has also developed a crosswalk needed to define behavioral health provider types. 11 11 ValueOptions Provider Directory • Includes physicians, non-physicians, hospitals and Outpatient Mental Health Clinics (OMHC). • Provider search is available through our website and is searchable for anyone (HealthChoice MCOs, Members, Providers etc.). • ValueOptions also has the capability to generate specific reports based on any number of specifications. 12 VO Provider Data Capabilities • VO can provide counts of its provider network by: – Clinician type: Our data contains a licensure type field – Location (County, City, Zip Code) – Jurisdiction – Accepting new patients (Not available at this time due to credentialing issues. Is available through our QHOP partnership with Evergreen.) – Can provide counts based on OMHC (Outpatient Mental Health Center) 13 ValueOptions ReferralConnect® • On June 29th ReferralConnect® will launch on the VO website: http:// maryland.valueoptions.com/ • ReferralConnect® is an innovative Webbased provider referral system which offers real time information on our provider network. • Users can search for providers, view specialties and other helpful demographic information. • Mobile Referral Application is also available.14 14 Questions? • Contact: Shannon M. McMahon Deputy Secretary, Health Care Financing Department of Health and Mental Hygiene [email protected] Zereana Jess-Huff, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer ValueOptions Maryland [email protected] 15
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