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KyHealth Choices. Presentation to Medicaid Congress June 15, 2007. Mark D. Birdwhistell Secretary, Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Agenda. Background & Vision for Kentucky Medicaid Comprehensive Medicaid Modernization & Reform Phase I: Infrastructure - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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KyHealth ChoicesPresentation to
Medicaid Congress
June 15, 2007
Mark D. BirdwhistellSecretary, Cabinet for Health and Family Services
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Slide 2 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Agenda Background & Vision for Kentucky Medicaid
Comprehensive Medicaid Modernization & Reform
– Phase I: Infrastructure
– Phase II: Flexibility – KyHealth Choices
Transforming Health and Human Services In Kentucky
Signs Kentucky’s Efforts are Working
Conclusion
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BACKGROUND
& VISION
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Slide 4 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Kentucky Medicaid
• Covers nearly half of all births in the Commonwealth per year
• Provides health coverage to 1 out of every 3 children and 1 out of every 7 seniors over age 65
• Provides coverage to more than 700,00 enrollees representing about 20% of the state’s total population
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Slide 5 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Kentucky Medicaid• Currently, Kentucky spends $700
million dollars for 24,000 individuals residing in nursing facilities
• In contrast, we pay $30 million dollars for 72,000 individuals to live in a community setting
• Something had to change. We needed to modernize the program to better serve our citizens
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Slide 6 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Old Medicaid vs. New
vs.
vs.
Home & Community-Based Care
Bricks & Mortar – Institutional Approach
Sick Care
Wellness
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Slide 7 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Programmatic Silos
DMHMRS
MEDICAID
AGING
PRIVATEINSURANCE
DCBS
PublicHEALTH
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Slide 8 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
KyHealth Choices
– Improve the health status of those Kentuckians enrolled in the program
– Ensure people receive the right care, in the right setting, at the right time
– Ensure the solvency of Kentucky Medicaid for future generations of Kentuckians
– Transform Kentucky Medicaid into a 21st Century Health Care System
Kentucky envisioned a NEW Medicaid program that would:
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COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAID
MODERNIZATION & REFORM
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Slide 10 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
21st Century Health Care SystemKentucky’s Medicaid Reform
KyHealth Choices
Technology Care Management
Benefit Design
Three Legged Foot Stool
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Slide 11 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
21st Century Health Care System
• Phase I: Infrastructure– Administrative Reorganization– Technology
• Phase II: Flexibility – Federal changes to Medicaid– Benefit Design– Care Management
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Slide 12 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Administrative Infrastructure• On May 11, 2004 Governor Ernie Fletcher issued
an Executive Order reorganizing Kentucky state government.
• Created Cabinet for Health and Family Services, largest agency in Kentucky state government
• Combined all health and human services within one agency, including Medicaid, with new opportunities for coordination
• $6.5 billion annual budget and more than 8,000 employees
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Slide 13 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Administrative Infrastructure
Had to remove the
silos to achieve
the right care
in the right setting
at the right time
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Slide 14 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Technology Infrastructure
• New Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) for improved claims and administrative infrastructure
• New Kentucky Medicaid Administrative Agent (KMAA) for better care management and pharmacy management
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Slide 15 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Phase II: FlexibilityKentucky was the 1st state in the nation to receive approval for comprehensive Medicaid reform under the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA)
• Advocated for state flexibility in the Medicaid program at the federal level
• Presentation to Congressional leadership and various subcommittees in April 2005
• Originally submitted 1115 waiver in November 2005 - Only vehicle at the time for comprehensive reform
• Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 passed by Congress and signed by President Bush on February 8, 2006.
• KyHealth Choices received approval on May 3, 2006
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Slide 16 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
KyHealth ChoicesPre-DRA Medicaid
X “One size fits all” with identical programs statewide regardless of need
X Very limited (if any) consumer involvement
X No limitations on benefits on services
KyHealth Choices
Cost sharing and alternative premiums
New rules for prescription drug coverage
Co-pays for emergency room visits for non-emergency care
Tailored health benefit packages
Increases in the use of home and community services rather than institutional, long term care services
Service limitations
Incorporates best practices from the commercial market
Maximum out of pocket expense limits
Tiered formulary
Consumer involvement in prevention and care management
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Slide 17 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
OPTIMUM CHOICES
ICF/MR Level of Care
OPTIMUM CHOICES
ICF/MR Level of Care
FAMILY CHOICES
KCHIP and most children served in
Medicaid
FAMILY CHOICES
KCHIP and most children served in
Medicaid
COMPREHENSIVE CHOICES
NF Level of Care
COMPREHENSIVE CHOICES
NF Level of Care
GLOBAL CHOICES
General Medicaid Population
GLOBAL CHOICES
General Medicaid Population
KyHealthChoices Kentucky’s Medicaid Reform
Initiative
KyHealthChoices Kentucky’s Medicaid Reform
Initiative
Four Targeted Benefit Plans
Benefit Design
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Slide 18 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Benefit Design
Cost Sharing• Most members enrolled in KyHealth Choices will be required to share in the
cost of many of the covered services
• The maximum amount of cost-sharing shall not exceed five percent of a family’s income per quarter.
• Maximum out of pocket expense:– $225 per calendar year for prescription drug copayments or coinsurance; or– $225 per calendar year for medical copayments or coinsurance.
Service Limits• Some services and prescriptions have limits. For example, prescription
medicines are limited to a total of four per month
Medicaid has had NO access to care issues as a result of these changes
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Slide 19 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Care Management • $2 billion spent currently on just a few conditions:
– Diabetes– COPD – Asthma– Heart disease, stroke/TIA and heart failure– Neo-natal babies
• Prevalence and Cost of Chronic Diseases– Chronic illness accounts for 74% of total medical
spending, after including all behavioral health issues this increases to 82%.
– Focus on disease and case management to address
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Slide 20 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Care Management• Disease management pilots were initiated in
counties with high risk throughout the state
• Programs under way:– Diabetes:
– Pediatric Asthma & COPD / Adult Asthma
– Pediatric & Adult Obesity
– Cardiac & Coronary Artery Disease
– Breast and Cervical Cancer
– Prostate Cancer Screening
– Minority Health
– Pediatric Diabetes
– Osteoporosis
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Slide 21 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
KyHealth ChoicesConsumer Involvement and Empowerment
• Consumer Directed Option - Enrollees can hire individuals (relatives or friends) to provide services rather than a Home Health Agency or other service provider
• Self-Directed Option Pilot - Even more control than CDO – choice of support brokers and fiscal intermediaries ; Allows individuals to use their budgets to pay for items that increase independence and decrease dependence on human assistance (such as employment services).
• Money Follows the Person - Kentucky awarded a five-year grant for $49,835,800 from CMS to transition MR/DD, frail elderly and brain injury clients from a facility to the community
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TRANSFORMING HEALTH
& HUMAN SERVICESIN KENTUCKY
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Slide 23 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Flexibility = Better Coordination
Medicaid has been the
800 lb. gorilla in the room.
States have had difficulty fundamentally changing service delivery because
Medicaid was so inflexible
NOT ANYMORE
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Slide 24 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Ky’s Health Reform Initiatives
• Kentucky’s Medicaid reform is part of Governor Fletcher’s comprehensive set of Health Reform Initiatives that also include: – Insurance Market Improvements – Long Term Living Initiative– E-Health– Governor’s Office of Wellness and Physical
Activity - Get Healthy Kentucky – Health Care Transparency– ICARE Small Business Coverage Assistance
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Slide 25 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Aging: Long Term Living InitiativeVISION• Use new flexibility in Medicaid to redesign LTC services
and programs in both the public and private sector to enable easy consumer access, a full continuum of services to match consumer needs, and delivery of quality services in a timely manner.
PROCESS• Created Department for Aging and Independent Living • LTL Policy Team to ensure no more silos• LTL Advisory body comprised of providers, consumers,
family members and advocacy organizations • LTL Implementation Team comprised of staff from all
departments and offices
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Slide 26 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Aging: Long Term Living Initiative• Medicaid’s CDO & SDO programs operated in
collaboration with Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs)
• Collaboration resulted in streamlining process - formerly required 22 forms, now down to 4
• Aging and Disability Resource Centers through out the state - Single Point of Entry + One Stop Shop for all aging services and needs
• Future plans include combined screening and eligibility tool and “No Wrong Door” approach to services
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Slide 27 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Public Health: Wellness Initiatives
• “Healthy at Heart” Initiative - Medicaid giving free health screenings including testing glucose, cholesterol, and lipids.
• Smoking Cessation Program - DPH Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program provides coverage of nicotine replacement products at no cost to Medicaid members who enroll in Quit Line counseling.
• Disease Management - Medicaid committed to working with local health departments
• Coverage for HPV Vaccine, Breast and Cervical Cancer Screenings for Medicaid members
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Slide 28 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Medicaid & e-Health• Received $4.9 million from CMS over 2 years to
support initial development of the Kentucky Health Information Partnership (K-HIP)
• K-HIP is a Medicaid-led alliance of payors working together to develop statewide health information exchange:– A statewide web-based portal with– Electronic access to a patient health summary based
initially on claims data (drug history, ER visits, etc.)– Single-sign on access for electronic administrative
transactions (eligibility check, claims, prior authorization)
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Slide 29 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Medicaid & Substance Abuse• Substance abuse is a factor in nearly 80% of child
abuse investigations (about 25,000 per year)• 3500 children in foster care due to substance abuse
issues with parent• Kentucky traditionally has only covered 60 days of
pre and post partum substance abuse treatment for pregnant women under Medicaid
• Pilot program starting this summer will provide coverage for substance abuse services for caregivers of children under 18 eligible for Medicaid
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Slide 30 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Medicaid & Private Insurance• Employer coverage coordination – allows
Medicaid to pay the premium if a working family is offered health insurance through their employer
• Data Sharing – Kentucky law allows Medicaid access to private insurance rolls to ensure Medicaid is payor of last resort
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SIGNS OUR EFFORTS
ARE WORKING
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Slide 32 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Signs Ky’s Efforts are Working
• National Trend: In 2005, number of uninsured increased in the US and employer-sponsored insured decreased.
• According to the Kaiser Family Foundation figures for 2005: – Kentucky was #1 in the nation in the growth of
employer sponsored insurance. – Kentucky’s uninsured rate went down by nearly
2% - the fourth biggest drop in the nation.
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Slide 33 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Signs Ky’s Efforts are WorkingCost Per Member Per Week
$113 $114 $115 $116 $117 $118 $119 $120
July 2005 - January2006
July 2006 - January2007
EnrolleesCost Per Member Per
WeekWeekly Cycle
Cost
July 2005 - Jan 2006 696779 $119.09 $82,982,370
July 2006 - Jan 2007 709384 $115.04 $81,604,061
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Slide 34 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Signs Ky’s Efforts are Working
Average Inpatient Length of Stay
0 1 2 3 4 5
October 2005 -March 2006
October 2006 -March 2007
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Slide 35 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Signs Ky’s Efforts are Working
Inpatient Cost Per Claim
$0 $1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 $5,000
October 2005 -March 2006
October 2006 -March 2007
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Slide 36 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Signs Ky’s Efforts are Working
Monthly Pharmacy ClaimsOctober 2006 - March 2007
Brand
Generic
Monthly Pharmacy ClaimsOctober 2005 - March 2006
Brand
Generic
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Slide 37 Cabinet for Health and Family Services
KyHealth ChoicesIn conclusion, Kentucky’s Medicaid reform:
• Eliminates the one-size fits all approach to Medicaid
• Is transforming Medicaid into a 21st Century health plan
• Empowers members to be active participants in their own healthcare
• Improves wellness and quality of care delivered to our members
• Enables the Commonwealth to break down the silos that hinder true coordination of care and services