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> > Healthy Pennsylvania Access – Affordability – Quality
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> > Healthy PA PRIORITIES Three Key Priorities: 1.Improving Access 2.Ensuring Quality 3.Providing Affordability Healthy Pennsylvania is Governor Tom Corbett’s plan to ensure that Pennsylvanians have increased access to quality, affordable health care. 2
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> > Healthy Pennsylvania Access – Affordability – Quality Healthy PA IMPROVING ACCESS Get All Kids Insured 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 $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 Utilize telemedicine to bring specialty care to underserved areas of PA Electronic access to secure patient health records 3
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> > Healthy Pennsylvania Access – Affordability – Quality Supporting Older Pennsylvanians & Persons with Disabilities 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 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 Enhance the prescription drug monitoring program Support the statewide “Drug Take-Back” program Healthy PA ENSURING QUALITY 4
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> > Healthy Pennsylvania Access – Affordability – Quality Continue to Reform PA’s Medical Liability System Adoption of the “Apology Rule” Reforming PA’s Medicaid Program 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 Healthy PA PROVIDING AFFORDABILITY 5
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> > Healthy Pennsylvania Access – Affordability – Quality For information on health insurance options in PA, visit www.pahealthoptions.com www.pahealthoptions.com 6 For more information, visit www.pa.gov/healthypa. www.pa.gov/healthypa To comment on the Healthy PA plan, email ra-pwHealthyPA@pa.gov.ra-pwHealthyPA@pa.gov
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