Transcript Healthy PA - Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers

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Healthy PA
PRIORITIES
Healthy Pennsylvania is Governor Tom Corbett’s plan to ensure that
Pennsylvanians have increased access to quality, affordable health care.
Three Key Priorities:
1. Improving Access
2. Ensuring Quality
3. Providing Affordability
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Healthy PA
IMPROVING ACCESS
 Get All Kids Insured
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95 percent of Pennsylvania children currently enrolled in health care coverage –
one of the highest percentages in the nation
Add funding to increase outreach and coverage to previously uninsured and
under-insured children
Eliminate the mandatory CHIP six month waiting period
 Promote Access to Primary Health Care
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$4 million to build new and expanded community-based, primary care health
clinics
Additional residency slots for physicians
Loan forgiveness program to incentivize primary health care providers to
practice in rural and underserved areas of PA
 Enhancing Care Delivery through Technology
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Utilize telemedicine to bring specialty care to underserved areas of PA
Electronic access to secure patient health records
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Healthy PA
ENSURING QUALITY
 Supporting Older Pennsylvanians & Persons with
Disabilities
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An additional $68 million to help older Pennsylvanians and persons with
disabilities come off of waiting lists and stay in their homes and communities
Convene a Long-Term Care Commission
 Promote Good Public Health
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Host a “Healthy Pennsylvania Summit” to expand preventative health best
practices
Support and expand community-based health partnerships
 Ensuring Safe & Appropriate Access to Prescription
Medications
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Enhance the prescription drug monitoring program
Support the statewide “Drug Take-Back” program
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Healthy PA PROVIDING AFFORDABILITY
 Continue to Reform PA’s Medical Liability System
 Adoption of the “Apology Rule”
 Reforming PA’s Medicaid Program
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Align Medicaid Benefits with Private, Commercial Insurance
Cost Sharing & Individual Responsibility
Promote healthy behaviors
Job training & work search for those who are unemployed and
able to work
 Reinvest Saving to Increase Access for Uninsured
 Explore using private option to enroll “newly eligible” uninsured
adults in private health insurance plans through the federal
Exchange
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For more information, visit
www.pa.gov/healthypa.
To comment on the Healthy PA plan,
email [email protected].
For information on health insurance
options in PA, visit
www.pahealthoptions.com
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