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Partnering to Help High Risk FFS Medicaid Patients


Texas Medicine: TDI also oversees the Division of Worker’s Compensation (DWC), and a number of physicians in- teract with those carriers and patients seeking that kind of care. How are you working with DWC in that area?


Commissioner Rathgeber: DWC Commissioner Rod Bordelon is doing a fabulous job. TDI works with DWC to provide support for some of the main administrative functions. We help with governmental relations; we help with the budget; we help with some of the human resources issues. Otherwise, Commissioner Bordelon handles the pol- icy aspects and the implementation and the enforcement of DWC operations. We work with them and support them in the rulemaking process. But their rulemak- ing process is a little bit different than the main TDI rulemaking process, and their claims-review process is a little bit different. So it has worked well for him to manage that, and I look forward to working with him.


The Texas Medicaid Wellness Program partners with local providers to help certain at risk and high risk fee-for-service Medicaid patients better manage their health.


To learn more about how your most chronically ill FFS Medicaid patients could benefit from additional support, or to refer eligible patients, visit mckesson.com/campaigns/texas-medicaid-wellness-program.


JAMA survey: Physicians spell out role in curbing health care costs


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Physicians see themselves as having some responsibility in addressing health care costs in their practices and general- ly agree with the need for quality initia- tives to reach that goal. But they report less enthusiasm for cost-containment measures involving changes in payment models, according to a survey published in the July 24/31 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In a survey of 2,556 physicians, 36


percent said that practicing physicians have a “major responsibility” to curb health care costs. However, a majority pointed to trial lawyers (60 percent), health insurance companies (59 per- cent), hospitals and health systems (56 percent), pharmaceutical and device


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