Government Health IT
January 20, 2012
South Carolina has received kudos for improving its methods to expand and retain eligible children in Medicaid by using information from other safety-net programs, such as food stamps, for enrollment.
At the same time, the technical tools to share data and the efficiency they generate also reduce state administrative costs.
South Carolina supports 900,000 individuals in Medicaid, a critical source of health coverage in the economic downturn, and it is looking across a range of solutions to make its program more efficient to avoid cuts as the state, like many others, struggles with limited budgets, said John Supra, CIO of the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.