PPL's Crisis Continuity Plans Succeed During Boston Lockdown

 

On April 25, the Willis Report on Fox Business News featured PPL COO Will Weddleton, discussing PCG Public Partnerships’ (PPL’s) successful crisis continuity plans during the lockdown of Boston on April 19. [More]

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Public Partnerships, DPW Continue to Resolve Home Care Worker Pay Issues

 

HARRISBURG (Feb. 4, 2013) -- Public Partnerships, LLC (PPL) and the state Department of Public Welfare have paid 91 percent of the home care workers in the state, and they continue to aggressively and successfully resolve issues during this payroll transition period. PPL, which won a competitive contract with DPW, has put new processes in place that allow the agency to automate a portion of the data correction that had previously required manual research. This now allows PPL to more quickly approve additional timesheets, and has helped PPL in the last week go from approving nearly 80 percent of time sheets to 91 percent. [More]

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Public Partnerships and DPW Resolving Home Care Worker Pay Issues

 

HARRISBURG (Jan. 23, 2013) -- Public Partnerships, LLC and the state Department of Public Welfare continue to work aggressively to successfully resolve recent issues related to the payroll for home care workers across the state. PPL has paid nearly 80 percent of the valid time sheets submitted by direct care workers and is paying every valid time sheet it has received as soon as it becomes payable. All initial checks for care workers are mailed, and pay can be issued through direct deposit in subsequent pay periods for those who have completed the direct deposit form. [More]

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PCG Public Partnerships working aggressively to pay direct care workers

 

HARRISBURG (Jan. 10, 2013) – PCG Public Partnerships, LLC (PPL) is committed to Pennsylvanians who count on home-based services to live independently, and also to their direct care workers. PPL was contracted through a competitive bidding process by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to help modernize its participant-directed services program that provides home and community-based assistance for Medicaid enrollees. In doing so our goal has been to conduct a transition that is as efficient, effective and seamless as possible. PPL began its work with the state on January 1 [More]

 

PPL to Provide Financial Management Services for Participant-Directed Programs in Pennsylvania

 

Harrisburg, PA, November 7, 2012 - Public Consulting Group’s Public Partnerships, LLC (PPL) was selected through a competitive bid process to provide financial management services for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare’s (DPW) statewide participant-directed programs. PPL is a nationally renowned expert firm in delivering financial management services to populations living at home in 22 state programs in the U.S. Public Consulting Group, a national management consulting firm with offices in Harrisburg, has been working in Pennsylvania for 15 years. Initially, PCG worked with twenty counties, helping them implement the Health Choices program, starting in 1998. [More]

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Ohio Selects PCG Public Partnerships to Conduct Statewide Training for Waiver Program

 

Boston, MA, April, 2012 – The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities has selected PCG Public Partnerships, LLC (PPL) to design and conduct statewide training, including national best practices for support brokers and other stakeholders involved in the state’s Self-Empowered Life Funding (SELF) waiver program. This represents PPL’s first project in Ohio. PPL supports consumer self direction programs in 20 other states. More information is available at ppl@publicconsultinggroup.com. [More]

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President Obama Signs Health Reform Bill into Law

 

On Tuesday, March 23, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The House passed this legislation by a 219-212 vote on March 21. The Senate had passed it by a 60-39 margin on December 24. [More]

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