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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 00-253

NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC WELFARE

HealthChoices Behavioral Health Program Expansion to Lehigh/Capital Zone

[30 Pa.B. 822]

   HealthChoices is the name of Pennsylvania's 1915(b) waiver program to provide mandatory managed health care to Medical Assistance recipients. The Department of Public Welfare, in preparation for the expansion of the HealthChoices Behavioral Health Program to the Lehigh/Capital zone (Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Northampton, Perry and York counties), is making the following preliminary materials available:

   * Implementation of HealthChoices in the Lehigh/Capital Area--Discussion Paper

   * Southeast Behavioral Health Negotiated Reprocurement RFP

   * Southwest Behavioral Health Readiness Review Instrument

   * 1999 HealthChoices Behavioral Health Southwest Databook

   * HealthChoices Behavioral Health Complaint, Grievance, and Appeal Materials Handbook

HealthChoices Behavioral Health Lehigh/Capital Implementation Timeline

Implementation Target Date
10/1/2001

Letter of Intent issued for the
   HealthChoices Zone area Counties		3/31/00
Proposers' Library established4/1/00
Request for Proposals issued (with
   DRAFT Contract)		8/15/00
Data Book issued9/1/00
RFP Technical Assistance
   Sessions: Program--Fiscal--MIS		9/7/00--9/24/00
RFP responses due/received and
   opened		10/31/00
Contract Negotiations1/16/01--3/15/01
Readiness Review Deliverables Due4/21/01--5/26/01
On-Site Readiness Reviews6/12/01--6/23/01
Readiness Review Completed7/15/01
Start-Up and Outreach7/16/01--9/30/01
Voluntary Conversion10/1/01
Enrollment Activities10/1/01--2/18/02
Auto Assignment4/1/02

   For information or to order any of these materials contact: Mike Root, Department of Public Welfare, Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Bureau of Policy and Program Development, Harrisburg State Hospital, Beechmont Bldg. No. 32, Harrisburg, PA 17120, Phone: (717) 772-7992, Fax: (717) 772-7964.

FEATHER O. HOUSTOUN,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 00-253. Filed for public inspection February 11, 2000, 9:00 a.m.]


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