News Report | February 16, 2020
Arizona Medicaid & Health Plans Launch Initiative To Build Long-Term Care Workforce
The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) and the three Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) for the Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS) are implementing initiatives to increase the size of the state’s Medicaid long-term care workforce. The MCO contracts require the MCOs to build a long-term care workforce within their AHCCCS networks.
The ALTCS MCOs are Mercy Care, Banner-University Family Care, and United Healthcare Community Plan. The three organizations were awarded contracts in 2017. ALTCS provides acute care, long term care, behavioral health, home- and community-based services, and case management for two Medicaid . . .