New Medicaid system set to take effect for 240K Missourians

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(AP) – Roughly 240,000 more Missouri Medicaid recipients
are being switched to a system under which private companies oversee patient
care.The system, called managed care, will be expanded statewide Monday. About
500,000 Missourians in 54 counties along I-70 already had health care under that
model.

The rest received care under a fee-for-service model. Under that system,
physicians are reimbursed as patients are treated.

Missouri seniors, the blind and people with disabilities on Medicaid will not
be impacted by the change.

State lawmakers in 2015 passed a budget that called for expanding managed care
statewide. It’s now under scrutiny by some lawmakers who say the change was
pushed through too quickly and without enough public input.

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