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PCG and the Georgia Department of Education Win Learning Impact Platinum Award for Their Work on the 50-State CASE Registry Service.
At this year’s Learning Impact Leadership Institute IMS Global, recognized Public Consulting Group (PCG) and the Georgia Department of Education (GA DOE) with a Learning Impact Platinum Award At this year’s Learning Impact Leadership Institute IMS Global , recognized Public Consulting Group (PCG) an...
/news-perspectives/pcg-and-the-georgia-department-of-education-win-learning-impact-platinum-award-for-their-work-on-the-50-state-case-registry-service/Looking to the Future of Workers' Compensation
Several members of the PCG Health team recently attended the Workers Compensation Research Institute’s Annual Issues & Research Conference in Boston . The conference convenes researchers, regulators, and other workers’ compensation professionals from around the country to discuss trends they are...
/news-perspectives/looking-to-the-future-of-workers-compensation/Movement on drug cost containment at both the State and Federal level
Health Policy News has devoted significant attention to State and Federal efforts to contain drug costs, including recently issuing a report and legislative tracking tool entitled “ Rising Prescription Drug Costs: A report on state and federal efforts to contain costs”. As we head into the summer we...
/news-perspectives/movement-on-drug-cost-containment-at-both-the-state-and-federal-level/States Pursue Unique Approaches to Permit Non-Compliant Health Plans
While much of the attention over the debate over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has centered at the Federal level, states continue to act as the laboratories for innovation. Last year Health Policy News featured a series of updates on activity around Section 1332 State Innovation Waivers in the state...
/news-perspectives/states-pursue-unique-approaches-to-permit-non-compliant-health-plans/Read to be Ready, The Importance of Summer Camps
Starting next month month, more than 7,700 Tennessee students will participate in the extraordinarily successful Read to be Ready summer camps the Tennessee Department of Education (DOE) offers... Starting next month, more than 7,700 Tennessee students will participate in the extraordinarily success...
/news-perspectives/read-to-be-ready-the-importance-of-summer-camps/Los Patojos founder Juan Pablo Romero Fuentes sponsored by PCG at this year’s SXSWedu Conference
In a school of 300 students 2,500 miles from Public Consulting Group's headquarters in Boston, Juan Pablo Romero Fuentes demonstrates every d ay the power of an idea that is core to PCG's mission: Education, health care, and human services such as providing adequate shelter, food, clothing, and fami...
/news-perspectives/los-patojos-founder-juan-pablo-romero-fuentes-sponsored-by-pcg-at-this-year-s-sxswedu-conference/Illinois Wins CMS Approval for Medicaid Behavioral Health Services Innovation
On May 7, 2018, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner announced that Illinois has won federal approval to launch a 5 year, $2 billion Medicaid behavioral health services initiative. The initiative will be implemented by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services in collaboration with the Gov...
/news-perspectives/illinois-wins-cms-approval-for-medicaid-behavioral-health-services-innovation/Mitigating the Loss of the Individual Mandate- State Based Health Insurance Mandates
In December 2017, the federal administration’s tax bill – the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, phased out the individual mandate requirements, with the penalty for failing to have qualified insurance eliminated starting in 2019. For 2018, the mandate remains, with the penalty set at $695 per adult or 2.5% of ...
/news-perspectives/mitigating-the-loss-of-the-individual-mandate-state-based-health-insurance-mandates/CMS Proposes Changes to Rules related to Medicaid Access to Care Requirements
On March 23rd, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would exempt states from requirements to analyze and monitor access to care in the Medicaid program under certain circumstances. The proposal seeks to amend 42 CFR 447.203(b), which sets forth the process...
/news-perspectives/cms-proposes-changes-to-rules-related-to-medicaid-access-to-care-requirements/Public Consulting Group hosts Job Mentoring Course for North Carolina Middle School Students
On March 27 th , 2018, Public Consulting Group (PCG), as a part of the North Carolina Business Community for Education (NCBCE)’s statewide Students@Work Initiative, hosted a group of 14 middle school students in its Raleigh office for a crash course in the world of public sector consulting. Througho...
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