Monthly Meeting to Discuss DWS Immigrant List Incident Wednesday, August 4th, from 1 to 4pm

Monthly Meeting provides the community with an opportunity to discuss issues and concerns directly with state officials.  Given the monumental changes to be introduced by federal health reform, these dialogues will be critical to ensuring that health reform is implemented effectively. 

Unfortunately, the recent incident dealing with the illegal compilation of a list of Hispanic residents by a few DWS employees have given us much to discuss.  The Department of Workforce Services and Department of Health will present information about how private data is kept secure; and what the state is doing to strengthen its privacy safe guards so the public knows their information is secure.  We will then discuss how DWS can regain the trust of mixed citizenship families so they feel safe applying for benefits and services for qualified citizen family members.

In addition, we will follow up on last month’s discussion on changes coming to Medicaid as part of federal health reform.  This month we will be looking at new payment methodologies like accountable care organization, Medicaid managed care, and global payments.

You can help the state with these difficult issues by attending the next Monthly Meeting on Wednesday, August 4^th, from 1 to 4pm at the Utah Department of Workforce Services, Room 157, 1385 S. State Street, Salt Lake City,.  

Past meeting agendas, minutes, and material can be found at: http://www.healthpolicyproject.org/MMeeting.html