{"id":1206,"date":"2009-11-08T05:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:56:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:56:22","slug":"maines-dirigo-health-savings-one-third-of-original-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/medicine\/maines-dirigo-health-savings-one-third-of-original-estimate.php","title":{"rendered":"Maine’s Dirigo Health Savings One-Third of Original Estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maine's Acting Insurance Superintendent, Eric Cioppa, ruled last Monday (17 September) that the Dirigo Health Program saved the health care system $32.8 million in its third year of operation; roughly only one-third of the original $92.7 million savings estimate released on 8 July 2007.<\/span><\/p>

Despite Karynlee Harrington, executive director of the Dirigo Health Agency, previously stating in the Portland Press Herald<\/em> that the agency had refined the methodology used to determine the savings amount based on past decisions of the superintendent, it appears the agency needs a new mathmagician in accounting.<\/p>

On 27 July, the Dirigo Health Board of Director had reduced the estimated $92.7 million to $78.1 million.  The September 17 ruling of $32.8 million is the lowest savings figure, to date, in the agency's short, but beleaguered history; a possible indication that the agency has lost its steam.  Last year's savings were $34.2 million and the first year savings were ruled to be $43.7 million.<\/p>

Of the $32.8 million, Cioppa found that the program provided $25 million in hospital savings, $6.3 million in uninsured and under-insured initiatives, and $1.5 million in provider fee savings.  The savings form the basis of the Savings Offset Payment (SOP), the sole funding mechanism for the program.<\/p>

At a Dirigo Board meeting held after Cioppa's ruling, members discussed the possibility that the decrease in funding may result in the elimination of the subsidies currently paid to a majority of DirigoChoice program participants.<\/p>

The Maine Dirigo Health program was established in 2003.  Dirigo stopped accepting new enrollees July 1, 2007.<\/span>?<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>

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