AHCCCS Contract Awards will bring a host of changes

Reports from various sources are showing significant changes in the acute care contract awards. Most significantly impacted looks like APIPA/United which will loose all but a a few counties and drop around 100,000 lives off the books.

Phoenix Health Plan has picked up six new counties including Pima County. Healthchoice maintains their current counties and may have picked up some additional counties. Mercy Care Plan will fall back to Maricopa, Cochise, Greenlee, and Graham counties.

As a result of the changes, their will assuredly be changes to affect both Case Management and Utilization/Concurrent review nurses and their respective positions within the health plans.

Stay tuned as we track the developments and possible lingering job opportunities that will arrise in the local Medicaid market!

Thanks, Steve