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State to host hearing on plan for “dual eligibles”

By Chelsea Conaboy

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 03, 2012

The state Health and Human Services department will take comments during a public hearing tomorrow on its plan to overhaul health care for people who are enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare. The plan affects about 109,000 people in Massachusetts who are poor and disabled and between the ages of 21 and 64, including people with mental illness, drug and alcohol addictions, and development disabilities. The state wants to enroll the group in a network of providers that would receive one payment to provide all services to a patient.

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