To Improve Consumer Care In Medicaid & Beyond: Define Value & Make It Public

A series of news stories released over the past year out of Texas has caught my attention—and the attention of legislators and advocates in Texas. Last year The Dallas Morning News published a series of investigative reporting articles, Pain & Profit, on the services delivered under the state's Medicaid health plans. The series is extensive, but the overall theme was that the state's Medicaid consumers suffer from "poor state oversight" allowing "companies to skimp on essential care for sick kids and disabled adults" and that "8,000 and 14,000 people were probably not receiving the care . . .