A local and national leader on managed Medicaid and healthcare policy, Betlach spent nearly two decades with the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Arizona's Medicaid agency; Betlach served nine years as AHCCCS director and eight as its deputy director.
Governor Doug Ducey announced Betlach's retirement today,...Arizona News
SMAC meets quarterly in downtown Phoenix and on August 8 the committee was presented with information from Arizona Medicaid including information on AHCCCS Complete Care, CMS waivers, social determinants of health (SDOH), housing and work force development.
The 17-member SMAC committee is presided over by the Arizona Health Care Cost...Arizona News
The change was announced during the State Medicaid Advisory Committee meeting in Phoenix on Wednesday.
The announcement comes after CMS rejected Kansas' request for a 3-year lifetime limit on Medicaid benefits.
Arizona's Medicaid program, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, is obligated by a 2015 statute to annually...Arizona News
Governor Doug Ducey's proposal, to be submitted later this month, will be scaled back from the one federal officials rejected last year.
The governor is offering new exceptions and a limit on how much time someone needs to spend on a job or in training each week to keep receiving benefits.
Something else is different: The people...