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With A New Governor In The New Year, Will PA Have New Options For Healthcare?

Carnegie Mellon University Health Law professor Gary Kaplan joins us to talk about how Pennsylvania’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act could change under the Wolf administration.

Professor Kaplan represents private employers in advising them on health care plan options. So what do employers need to know about the UPMC and Highmark contract in 2015?

Kaplan explains that Wolf is interested in going with a different plan for the implementation of the Medicaid expansion than what Tom Corbett had planned. 

On the topic of the agreement between UPMC and Highmark, Kaplan believes that, moving forward, the public interest needs to be better accommodated.

The Pennsylvania Departments of Insurance and Health created Stayinformed.pa.gov to assist Pennsylvanians with the changes coming from UPMC and Highmark