FSSA announces managed care contractors selected to serve Healthy Indiana Plan and Hoosier Healthwise members
Indianapolis (June 10, 2016) – The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) today announced the selection of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, CareSource Indiana, MDwise Inc. and Managed Health Services of Indiana to negotiate contracts to administer health care services for the approximately 1,000,000 enrollees in the Healthy Indiana Plan and Hoosier Healthwise programs starting January 1, 2017 . The contracts would be effective for a maximum of six years. In procuring the selected vendors, FSSA made a number of enhancements to the contracts to improve the value Hoosier taxpayers receive for the dollars spent in the Medicaid managed care entity (MCE) contracts including: Significantly increasing the payment tied to outcomes to further incentivize the MCEs to improve the health of the populations served. The contracts do this by progressively increasing the payment amount withheld and awarded based on outcomes from 2 percent in the first year to 5 percent in ye