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: 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: 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: 13. September 2011 06:51
Milwaukee, WI, September, 2011 – In a recent ceremony, the Social Security Administration (SSA) recognized Public Consulting Group’s Social Security Advocacy Management Services or SSAMS™ team as a 2011 Distinguished Partner in Service. As Milwaukee County’s SSIA agency since 2009, the SSAMS™ team provides full service social security advocacy to Wisconsin’s W2 (Wisconsin’s term for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or TANF) population, including case management, Supplemental Security Income/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSI/SSDI), application filing, development, appeal processing, and post entitlement services. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 10. June 2011 09:01
Nashville, TN, June 10, 2011 – The Mississippi Department of Human Services and the state’s Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) have awarded PCG Human Services a project to further the state’s efforts to provide appropriate early childhood supports and services in the most effective and efficient manner possible. PCG will provide a written report and inventory of programs, describing innovative and successfully coordinated service models in MS and other noted national models. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 15. December 2010 07:14
The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) has passed its most recent federal Title IV-E eligibility review. PCG Human Services began a Title IV-E compliance projects with DPW in 2007 and is tasked with visiting all 67 counties at least twice annually to make sure counties are correctly performing Title IV-E eligibility determinations. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 22. November 2010 09:24
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) has re-awarded its statewide revenue maximization blanket contract to PCG Health. The contract runs through December 31, 2012, with two additional one-year extensions. PCG Health has been providing consulting services to NC DHHS since 1994. [More]
Author: PCG | Posted: 5. October 2010 09:00
Arizona State Hospital recently expanded a Medicare cost reporting project with PCG Health to also include Medicare Part D billing services. The facility pursued this expansion of services because it does not have the billing technology to submit these claims independently. For more information: pcghealth@publicconsultinggroup.com [More]
