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jonetta rose barras: Finally, new Medicaid managed care contracts

jonetta rose barras Oct 21, 2022

DC residents, especially those who are either Medicaid recipients or DC Health Care Alliance members, should be elated that the seemingly endless managed care procurement finally ended this week. In a 10-2 vote, the DC Council approved…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: DC Council wastes the public’s money and disregards residents’ health care

jonetta rose barras Aug 2, 2022

Late again. DC Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Wayne Turnage and Chief Procurement Officer George Schutter failed to meet the noon July 28 deadline set by the DC Council to address its questions and concerns about why Mayor…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: DC’s Medicaid managed care mess ad nauseam

jonetta rose barras Jul 11, 2022

Mayor Muriel Bowser and members of her team, including Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Wayne Turnage, appear to be misdirecting the city’s procurement process — yet again. Equally troubling, they are preparing to squeeze the DC…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: The proposed solution to the Medicaid managed care debacle is only temporary

jonetta rose barras Oct 1, 2021

Next week when legislators return from their summer recess, the DC Council is expected to approve the “Contracts with Managed Care Organizations for the Provision of Health Care Services to District Residents Emergency Approval and…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson enters the rogues’ gallery

jonetta rose barras Sep 23, 2021

There are many labels that have been slapped on DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson throughout his decades-long political career. He has been accused of suffering the all-trees-no-forest syndrome, of being a nitpicker, and of being a…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Is Mayor Bowser abusing her emergency powers in the Medicaid mess?

jonetta rose barras Sep 3, 2021

When Mayor Muriel Bowser issued her recent order declaring a “Health Care Resources Emergency,” she tore a page straight from former President Donald J. Trump’s book on how to create and exploit a crisis for personal political benefit. She…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: The Wayne Turnage and MedStar Family Choice show in DC

jonetta rose barras Aug 26, 2021

For the past year, Mayor Muriel Bowser and her Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Wayne Turnage have presented a master class in government and financial mismanagement marked by political and self-centered motivations. They — and…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: DC Deputy Mayor Wayne Turnage’s managed care soap opera

jonetta rose barras Apr 29, 2021

What happens when DC’s deputy mayor for health and human services seems determined to steer parts of a multibillion-dollar contract to a specific company? The answer to that question has been playing out for months in the city, as the DC…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: The Medicaid managed care contracting fiasco continues

jonetta rose barras Dec 17, 2020

No one should be surprised that the DC Contract Appeals Board (CAB) has found that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration violated city “procurement laws and regulations as well as the terms of the solicitation” in awarding the…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: The face of waste, fraud and abuse in DC government

jonetta rose barras Sep 4, 2020

The DC Council has decided to permit the controversial Medicaid managed care contract recently submitted by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration to move forward. That decision comes one week after information presented during a public…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Is the pledge of equity in DC real or fake?

jonetta rose barras Aug 14, 2020

When DC elected officials passed the 2014 government-contracting law giving preference points to small, disadvantaged businesses and other companies that obtain certification from the Department of Small and Local Business Development…

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jonetta rose barras: Skirting DC law with government approval

jonetta rose barras Aug 6, 2020

Some top executives in DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration appear to be suffering from amnesia. Maybe it’s the stress of dealing with the novel coronavirus pandemic and public health emergency. How else to explain why they are…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Shaking up health care during a pandemic

jonetta rose barras Jul 29, 2020

In the middle of a deadly global health pandemic, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration has decided to shake up the city’s system for delivering health care to poor residents who are on Medicaid. Many of them are people of color and are…

City Paper: An Ambiguous Federal Medicaid Cliff Can Force D.C. Seniors Into Nursing Homes

Editor Apr 15, 2019

A small increase in income can have devastating consequences for seniors relying on Medicaid for their care. These lawsuits say that’s illegal.

Washington Post: District residents say cuts in Medicaid home care hours leave them vulnerable

Editor Mar 8, 2019

For decades, Leah Graham was a pillar in her neighborhood in Southeast Washington, tending her vegetable garden, helping sick neighbors, baking her signature strawberry cake with icing made of confectioners’ sugar and strawberry Kool-Aid. …

Norton Condemns Bill Seeking to Roll Back a Major Portion of the D.C. Revitalization Act, Reimposing…

Press Release Jan 11, 2019

Contact: Benjamin Fritsch January 11, 2019 Norton Condemns Bill Seeking to Roll Back a Major Portion of the D.C. Revitalization Act, Reimposing Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in New State Costs on the District WASHINGTON,…

AG Racine Sues Personal Care Aides for D.C. Medicaid Billing Fraud

Press Release Oct 11, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 11, 2018 MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications AG RACINE SUES PERSONAL CARE AIDES FOR…

Norton Blasts House Republican Budget Attempt to Eliminate Major Medicaid Share Provision of the…

Press Release Jun 20, 2018

Contact: Benjamin Fritsch June 20, 2018 Norton Blasts House Republican Budget Attempt to Eliminate Major Medicaid Share Provision of the D.C. Revitalization Act, at Cost of Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to D.C.…

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District Links: Mayor says she expects to invoke 15-day emergency to extend curfew zones; Pinto apologizes for posting…

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With current legislative authority for expanded juvenile curfews set to expire at midnight, Mayor Muriel Bowser said today that she's likely to declare a 15-day public emergency in order to…

District Links: White calls for Pinto to withdraw from delegate’s race over release of personal info; BZA lacks…

Apr 14, 2026 17

Robert White — one of two sitting councilmembers vying to become the DC's next delegate to Congress — is calling on his Ward 2 colleague Brooke Pinto to drop out of the race after her campaign posted…

District Links: Inspector general report flags operational challenges at 911 call center; ex-AG Racine backs Lewis…

Apr 13, 2026 13

A new report from the DC Office of the Inspector General found that frequent absenteeism among front-line workers has impeded operations at DC's 911 call center despite progress in filling vacancies…

District Links: Bowser outlines FY 2027 budget plan with cuts to child care, paid leave programs; Trump administration…

Apr 10, 2026 26

Mayor Muriel Bowser and her budget team today presented the DC Council with an overview of her fiscal year 2027 budget proposal that includes $469 million in program reductions and savings, including…

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