More responsive care for Kentucky’s mentally ill patients — both children and adults — is among the most significant recommendations a state auditor’s report has made concerning the new Medicaid managed care program. Adam Edelen, who took office in January, …
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Managed care mangled too long; heed audit suggestions
The startup of statewide Medicaid managed care was bound to be bumpy. We’ve been willing to cut the managed care contractors and the Beshear administration some slack, in hopes that once the bumps are smoothed out, the outcome will be …
Kentucky auditor recommends changes in Medicaid program
FRANKFORT, KY. — State Auditor Adam Edelen recommended Wednesday that the state consider removing mental-health services from its new Medicaid managed care system, citing an especially high number of complaints about access to care and medication. “There are areas within managed …
Courier-Journal Editorial: State Auditor Adam Edelen correctly responded…
February 17, 2012
The monumental problems that developed when the state shifted its Medicaid administration to three managed care companies last November may not have been inevitable, but they certainly have been painful for health care providers across the commonwealth in the past …
Edelen releases state government audit; Audit expresses clean opinion on the state’s financial statements with 62 findings with recommendation
February 14, 2012
Kentucky Auditor Adam Edelen has released the first part of the annual statewide audit of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, expressing an unqualified or clean opinion on the state’s financial statements.
