Lumetra Healthcare Solutions

The Chairman of our Board of Directors, Richard Chambers, who serves as CalOptima’s CEO, has been appointed by the United States Comptroller General to serve on the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). He is just one of 17 commissioners appointed from a nationwide pool of stakeholders, including physicians, healthcare financing experts, consumers, health professionals and employers, and current or former Medicaid/CHIP officials.

The MACPAC was established as part of The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act, signed into law on February 4, 2009. The Commission’s primary responsibility will be to advise Congress on current Medicaid and CHIP payment and access policies, and make recommendations on potential reforms.

“This commission will help ensure continued health care for millions of low-income families and disadvantaged children under Medicaid and CHIP,” said Mr. Chambers. “It is an extraordinary honor to be appointed by the Comptroller General, and I am eager to work with the other Commission members on the challenges facing these critical programs.”

Chambers will begin a two-year term, which expires in December 2011, when the advisory body first convenes this month. The MACPAC will be accountable to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its subcommittee on Health, and the Senate Finance Committee, which have jurisdiction over Medicaid and CHIP.