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Title
IowaCare
Project Officer(s)
Juliana Sharp
Start Date
End Date
Award
Waiver-Only Project
Description
IowaCare expands health insurance coverage to uninsured Iowans up to 200% FPL, eliminates Medicaid financing arrangements whereby providers do not retain 100% of claimed expenditure, provides home and community-based services to children with chronic mental illness and moves towards community-based settings for delivering State mental health programs. The Demonstration uses an aggregate budget neutrality cap of $587.7 million. The aggregate cap was negotiated as a result of Iowa pledging to eliminate Medicaid financing arrangements whereby health care providers did not retain 100 percent of the claimed expenditure. The financing arrangements had yielded approximately $65 million in additional Federal funds annually for the State to use as its share of other Medicaid expenditures and non-Medicaid activities.
Funding
$0.00
Principal Investigator(s)
Jennifer Vermeer
Project Number
11-W-00189/07
Status
The Demonstration was renewed for 3 years on September 1, 2010. Under the Demonstration renewal, the State received authority to incrementally expand the primary care provider network. On October 1, 2010, the State expanded the primary provider care network to two Federally-Qualified Health Centers in Sioux City and Waterloo. As part of the renewal, the State will also implement a medical home pilot. As of October 1, 2010, there were 41,647 individuals enrolled in IowaCare. The Demonstration is currently scheduled to expire on December 31, 2013.
Awardee Address
100 Army Post Road
Des, Moines, IA
United States
Awardee Name
Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, Department of Human Services