The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has submitted an application to CMS to extend a Medicaid program that provides primary care and behavioral services to more than 60,000 state residents.
The Greater New Orleans Community Health Connection demonstration project — which began in October 2010 — is set to expire at the end of this year, according to a news release. The temporary extension request filed by the state health department would restructure the program waiver to allow it to operate through the end of 2014 using $6.1 million in remaining community development block grant funds.
The revisions that will allow the program to keep operating include limiting enrollment to people with incomes below 100 percent of the federal poverty level, reducing the primary encounter rate, stopping infrastructure payments to providers and decreasing and eventually eliminating supplemental payments, according to the release.
CMS still needs to review and approve the temporary waiver extension for the GNOCHC to continue.
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