In two parallel rulings, the state Supreme Court in late October expanded public access to information about the implementation of the state’s Medicaid program while also suggesting legislative attention be paid to the openness of records downstream from agency contracts.
In one case, the court held the Right-to-Know Law allows access to both rates paid by the Department of Public Welfare to managed care organizations to provide dental services and the rates managed care organizations pay to dental service providers. In the other, the court held the DPW is not obligated to provide access to contracts between managed care organizations and dental service providers if it does not physically maintain those records—even though a contract provision gives the DPW access to those records. The DPW was renamed the Department of Human Services in 2014.
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