Gov. Walz Pitches Changes to "Transform" Minnesota's Medicaid System that Face Unlikely Future in Legislature

Gov. Walz proposes massive changes to human services amid fraud scrutiny

Gov. Tim Walz proposed axing insurance companies from Minnesota’s Medicaid program and shifting some of the burden of administering Medicaid from counties to the state during a Capitol press conference Tuesday. Those and other Walz proposals would drastically overhaul how social services in Minnesota are run if passed by the Legislature — though that’s unlikely […]

Walz’s plan to radically change Medicaid, semi-explained

With 10 months left as governor, Tim Walz wants to pitch bold ideas whatever the political consequences. How else to explain a news conference Tuesday in which Walz proposed to completely reorder the state’s Medicaid program that furnishes health care for disabled, elderly and low-income Minnesotans. It is a plan that would add hundreds of state government jobs, while leading to untold job losses in counties and among nonprofit health insurers. …

Gov. Walz proposes major changes to state human services system

ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Walz has rolled out a series of proposals that would change how the state’s human services system functions. The proposals include two major changes: eliminating the use of Managed Care Organizations in the Medicaid program and shifting Medicaid eligibility work from counties to the state Department of Human Services. The proposals would need buy-in from the Legislature. “You can trace these back 40 years where a lot of these…

Walz lays out plan to give the state more control over Medicaid

ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – Governor Tim Walz has released a proposal that he says would centralize and streamline the way Minnesota delivers human services, including Medicaid. The plan updates a decades-old system that relies on counties and managed care organizations to run the programs. Under the proposal, the state would determine eligibility for Medicaid and manage claims processing, financial transactions and provider services. The prop…

Walz seeks to shake up Minnesota’s human services system amid fraud concerns

The governor proposed centralizing more services. One legislator called the plan “dead on arrival.”

Gov. Walz pitches changes to "transform" Minnesota's Medicaid system that face unlikely future in Legislature

Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday proposed an overhaul of Minnesota's Medicaid system in the wake of high-profile cases of fraud in state programs. But the plan is poised to face big hurdles at the state Capitol where lawmakers would have to approve it and some are skeptical of the idea.