This year marks the 30th anniversary of BlueCare Tennessee, a BlueCross subsidiary serving TennCare members. For the past three decades — and long before I joined the team — the member comes ...

It's pretty normal to hear large numbers for big budget requests. What isn't normal is for TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid program to request hundreds of millions of dollars for essentially just ...

TennCare – the state Medicaid program that pays the medical bills of 1.4 million low-income Tennesseans – is seeking a $975 million budget boost next year driven in large part by rising ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - In a recent budget meeting the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration’s Division of TennCare made some requests for its next budget. Among the notable ...

TennCare Director Stephen Smith offered up a novel idea: tap into a special savings pool within Tennessee's Medicaid program, which draws on a combination of state and federal funds to pay the ...

TennCare's developers had little managed care infrastructure on which to build in recruiting sufficient plans and provider capacity. In 1993 eleven small health maintenance organizations (HMOs ...

Starting with a limited base of managed care, TennCare shifted more than a million people to a totally capitated managed care environment within one year. Nearly 400,000 others gained eligibility.

South Carolina investigative outlet FITSNews recently published a story that should be of serious concern to anyone who has interacted with TennCare – especially parents of young children.