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If there is a lesson to be learned from the behavioral health reorganization, it is to look behind hastily implemented changes that could affect broader access to health care. Continue Reading
All 15 health organizations Gov. Susana Martinez’s Human Services Department chose to freeze Medicaid funding for in 2013 have been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. Continue Reading
It’s been clear for nearly three years that the Martinez Administration disrupted services for New Mexicans with its efforts to root out waste and possible fraud. Today it’s also clear that HSD’s efforts to stabilize the situation in the years since the Medicaid freeze have failed. The system is facing regular turnover and bogged down by legal battles. Continue Reading
The result is fewer outpatient behavioral health agencies. Continue Reading
La Frontera is accusing United Healthcare of covering up its inability to fulfill its contractual obligations to the State of New Mexico by blaming 15 behavioral health providers whose funding was later frozen. Continue Reading
The question remains: Why did the Martinez Administration freeze funding to 15 organizations and throw the state’s behavioral health system into chaos when it didn’t have to? Continue Reading
On Monday, the Martinez Administration continued defending its 2013 decision to freeze funding to 15 behavioral health organizations — even as the attorney general announced that his agency had cleared almost all of them of criminal wrongdoing. Continue Reading
A prior version of this posting failed to mention, in the photo cutline, that Families and Youth is once again providing services, albeit without Medicaid funding, in the building pictured in the photo. Continue Reading
More than two years after the state froze Medicaid payments to 15 behavioral health providers, the initial audit that led to the freeze continues to come under scrutiny. Some New Mexicans say they’re upset with how the Martinez administration handled the situation. Continue Reading