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DOC health contract with Wellpath nears renewal as Medicaid reentry waiver goes live
Summary
DOC communications director said the department’s three-year contract with Wellpath (started July 1, 2023) is approaching its end; the committee heard performance-measure oversight options, dental access challenges and that a Medicaid reentry 1115 waiver launched Jan. 1 allowing Medicaid 90 days pre-release.
Haley Summer, director of communications for the Vermont Department of Corrections, briefed the Senate Institutions committee on the department’s health services contract and population health statistics on Feb. 18.
Summer said the DOC contracts with Wellpath to provide comprehensive on-site and off-site health services in corrections facilities. “The contract began 07/01/2023, and it’s a three-year contract,” she said, adding there are two optional one-year extensions available under the current arrangement. The contract is structured around the National Commission on Correctional Health Care standards and Vermont care standards, Summer said.
Summer provided high-level health statistics for…
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