HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Lots of work will be required before hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians can enroll in new Medicaid-funded health insurance plans under Gov. Tom Corbett’s Healthy PA program.
The Corbett administration’s executive Medicaid director, Lisa Allen, says she’s pretty confident that enrollment can start Dec. 1, a month before coverage begins.
The state is working to ensure people can enroll electronically and while insurance companies are starting to build provider networks to support the plans and prepare to hire more health care and administrative personnel.
Antoinette Kraus of the Pennsylvania Healthcare Access Network says the new system is complicated and she’s not confident everything will be done in time.
The federal government last week approved elements of a federally-funded health care expansion that Corbett’s administration spent more than a year developing.
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