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TennCare extensions approved as committee presses for progress on reprocurement and vendor transitions
Summary
The Fiscal Review Committee approved a series of TennCare contract extensions and option exercises—covering managed‑care organization extensions, asset verification services, dental benefits and pharmacy services—and heard an update that arrearages involving one MCO were addressed after committee attention.
The Fiscal Review Committee approved a package of TennCare‑related contract actions on March 27, including short extensions, option‑year exercises and an increase in funding for selected services designed to support enrollment, asset verification and pharmacy operations.
Zane Sills, chief financial officer for the Division of TennCare, presented several items that the committee took up together. Senator Yeager noted that, after the committee’s prior inquiries, United (an MCO) had paid arrearages to a constituent, and he…
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