What's new at MLS

1. Substance use disorder services  Last year a state law improving substance use disorder services was enacted (c. 258 St. 2014). A provision requiring MassHealth & MassHealth managed care plans to cover detox and up to 14 day crisis stabilization services without prior authorization…

1. MassHealth Renewals Extension to Oct 16 for people with disabilities. In August MassHealth notified about 35,000 households containing 62,000 individuals with at least one member with a disability that they had to submit a reapplication by Sept 15 to remain eligible for MassHealth. The…

1. MassHealth Renewals. MassHealth is about half-way through the process of renewing eligibility for 1.2 million beneficiaries before the end of 2015. Renewals for People with Disabilities Underway-Workaround needed for some adults About 36,000 households with at least one member with a…

Fallon Total Care, one of the plans contracted with MassHealth and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide One Care as part of the Massachusetts capitated Financial Alignment Demonstration, has decided that they will be leaving One Care as of September 30, 2015. Fallon Total…

It is not too late for MassHealth members who lost benefits for failing to reapply to reinstate their coverage back to the date it ended, and you can help What happened? Almost 300,000 MassHealth renewal notices were mailed in January and February giving 500,000 MassHealth members March…

The following is an EOHHS press release dated April 17 on personnel changes at MassHealth. Special congratulations to Robin Callahan for a well-deserved promotion! MassHealth Restructured To Improve Care, Rein In Costs BOSTON The Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services…

Alert to legal aid offices and social service providers about MassHealth terminations and the availability of MassHealth Renewal Extensions: It is not too late for renewing MassHealth members who receive termination notices to reapply and reinstate their coverage back to the date it ended, and…

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cooper, Claire F (ITD) <claire.f.cooper@massmail.state.ma.us> Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:58 PM Subject: 1/28 Health Connector Customer Service Hours Good evening, Earlier this evening, Governor Baker announced that non-emergency state…

Copied below is a press release from the Governor's office about today's appointment of Daniel Tsai as Medicaid Director & Asst. Secretary at EOHHS & Luis Gutierrez as Director of the Connector: Baker-Polito Administration Announces Health Connector, MassHealth Appointments New…