Author: PCG | Posted: 30. January 2012 07:14

Boston, MA, January, 2012 – The Hawai’I Department of Human Services MedQuest Division (Medicaid) has awarded a contract to PCG to assist the state in obtaining a new Medicaid eligibility system that is compliant with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The scope of work includes gathering and documenting Medicaid eligibility business processes and systems requirements, with an initial goal of replacing the legacy Medicaid eligibility system. PCG was also recently selected as Hawai’I’s Health Benefits Exchange consultant in a separate procurement. [More]

Author: PCG | Posted: 26. January 2012 09:05

Boston, MA, January, 2012 – PCG Health was recently selected as the state of California’s Health Care Options (HCO) Program consultant. HCO coordinates activities in the managed care counties that include outreach, oversight of beneficiary education, and processing plan enrollment and disenrollments. PCG will help the program to define a business model to ensure that its Enrollment Broker contract has the ability to accommodate health care reform changes to Medi-Cal over the coming years. [More]

Author: PCG | Posted: 13. January 2012 09:56

Austin, TX, January, 2012 – The Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) has awarded PCG Health a contract to complete a rate study for community-based rates for mental health and substance abuse services. This project is mandated as a result of a federal settlement agreement filed by advocates that questioned the adequacy of community-based service delivery options. As part of the settlement agreement, DBHDD is required to hire an outside contractor to develop rates that will adequately reimburse providers their cost for the provision of services and sufficiently recognizes the resource and acuity differences depending upon the service setting, practitioner rendering the services, and geographic differences across the state, among other pertinent factors. [More]

Author: PCG | Posted: 6. January 2012 11:03

Tallahassee, FL, January, 2012 – The Florida Department of Education has contracted with PCG Education to support 10 rural school districts to build internal leadership capacity to assist in their school turnaround efforts. The 18-month project includes development, dissemination, and use of customized training modules and a rural leadership model for the state of Florida. PCG is partnering with three FL consortia partners to provide onsite professional development and strategic planning support to leadership teams in the participating district. [More]

Author: PCG | Posted: 6. January 2012 11:01

Lodz, Poland, January, 2012 – Public Consulting Group (PCG) has signed a reseller agreement with Librus – one of Poland’s premier IT companies focused on education – to distribute PCG’s EdPlan Special Education management system to schools and local governments in Poland. [More]

Author: PCG | Posted: 5. January 2012 09:49

Boston, MA, December, 2011 – The state of Alaska has chosen PCG Health as its health benefit exchange (HBE) planning consultant. PCG Health will provide Alaska with consulting and recommendations regarding the design options for its HBE, recommendations for financial sustainability, and integration of the Exchange with Medicaid and CHIP. [More]

Author: PCG | Posted: 1. December 2011 05:13

Public Consulting Group (PCG) today announced that the State of Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) has awarded its PCG Technology Consulting division a contract to carry out Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) on its Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) project. This is a three-year contract for PCG in Baton Rouge that is due to start in January 2012. [More]

Author: PCG | Posted: 12. October 2011 06:14

Boston, MA, October, 2011 - PCG Human Services helped the state of North Carolina win a federal grant to study the effects of removing the eligibility interview from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The study is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the evaluation will be performed by Mathematica Policy Research. The study will test whether waiving the eligibility interview for SNAP benefits affects participation, efficiency, customer access, payment accuracy, administrative costs, and staff and customer satisfaction. [More]

Author: PCG | Posted: 26. September 2011 09:42

Atlanta, GA, September, 2011 – PCG Education recently worked with Atlanta Public Schools to launch the Teacher Effectiveness Dashboard (TED). Funded by the Gates Foundation, TED is a custom Web application that combines multiple streams of principal assessment and student outcome data to help school and district leaders identify, nurture, and support effective teaching practices. [More]

Author: PCG | Posted: 22. September 2011 03:27

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. - Sept. 19, 2011 – Today Pearson announced an agreement with PCG Education to provide PowerSchool, the industry-leading student information system (SIS), with robust, integrated functionality to address the special-education needs of today’s schools and districts. [More]