Medicaid privatization: Keokuk woman calls system ‘a huge mess’ at legislative forum
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The state's three
Many health care providers across the state have lamented low, late or non-existent reimbursement rates from the insurance companies for the services they provide.
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Under new rules imposed by
She also has a 38-year-old disabled woman living in her home whom she cares for, but Bealle's reimbursement rate for her has not been affected because the woman is not her daughter.
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Bealle attended the forum to check on the status of Senate File 478, which would make supported community living services available at a daily rate to disabled Iowans living at home with their parents or legal guardians, thus solving the woman's current dilemma.
Bealle listed past problems she's experienced with
"We never wanted the privatization," she said of the
The bill passed out of the
"The problem is, right now all of them (the insurance providers) are saying they don't have enough money from the state to take care of what they're paying out," said Kearns. "And that's unfortunate, but that's what we thought was going to happen and that's why I opposed it."
Bartles said as of
"The reimbursement arrangement they made with the
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