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The Healthy Montana Kids Plan Act (HMK) is a program that expanded the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid eligibility for children in the state of Montana. [1] The effort to codify HMK was spearheaded by then state auditor, John Morrison . [ 1 ]
In 2016, the year Montana’s legislature expanded Medicaid, the overall program provided benefits to 125,000 children, 50,000 adults in the original Medicaid, and 50,000 adults in the expanded plan.
Mountain Health CO-OP, formerly Montana Health CO-OP, is a nonprofit, member-led health insurance company that currently offers products in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.. The company was founded as a health insurance cooperative under a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for the purpose of introducing more competition into state insurance mark
In the 1980s, as Medicaid managed care expanded across the county, safety net providers, such as Community Health Centers (CHCs) and public hospitals, feared that managed care would reduce reimbursements for Medicaid-eligible services, making it more difficult for them to provide care to the un- and under-insured, and result in a loss of Medicaid volume, as beneficiaries would choose to see ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
Logan Health Medical Center is a 622-bed [1] non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located in Kalispell, Montana, servicing the northern Montana region. Formerly Kalispell Regional Medical Center , the hospital is owned by Logan Health and is the flagship hospital of the system.
Reimbursement for independent RHCs is capped at the same rate as provider-based RHCs with more than fifty beds. This cap is adjusted annually based on the percent change in the Medicare Economic Index (MEI). Prior to 2001, State Medicaid Programs were required to pay RHCs via a cost-based reimbursement model similar to that of Medicare.
The daily administration of the state’s laws, as defined in the Montana Code Annotated, are carried out by the chief executive—the Governor, and their second in command the Lieutenant Governor, the Secretary Of State, the Attorney General, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Auditor, and by the staff and employees of the 14 executive branch agencies.