Gov. Branstad, Lt. Gov. Reynolds Release Data on Medicaid Modernization

Press Release

Today, Gov. Terry E. Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds released new data showing Iowa's Medicaid patients have more choice, access, and accountability under Medicaid Modernization than ever before. Medicaid Modernization was officially launched on April 1, 2016. Patients have more choice than ever before fitting their individual needs, more access to services including twice as many doctors and nurses, and real accountability that will improve the health of more than 500,000 Iowans.

As 39 other states and the District of Columbia have done, Iowa is leveraging its own 30 years of Medicaid managed care experience and utilizing nationally-experienced health plans to coordinate care making Medicaid patients healthier and fitting individual needs.

The health plans have built robust provider networks giving patients more choice than ever before to fit the individual patient. Patients also have better access to services with twice the number of doctors and nurses available to them in Medicaid Modernization than compared to Old Medicaid. Medicaid Modernization has brought real accountability to the Medicaid program tracking nearly 1,000 patient health outcomes--something Old Medicaid never did.

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