State Rep. Gregory W. Porter is pressing the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration for answers after the agency abruptly terminated its Medicaid contract with MDwise, a move affecting roughly 300,000 Hoosiers enrolled in the Healthy Indiana Plan and Hoosier Healthwise programs.

FSSA announced last week that MDwise will no longer serve as a managed care health plan for Medicaid programs, requiring current members to select a new provider during the upcoming open enrollment period.

“Indiana Medicaid exists to provide dependable, high-quality care for the Hoosiers who rely on it,” said Mitch Roob, Secretary of FSSA. “Our review found that, of the four plans, MDwise was both the most expensive and the lowest in quality. Federal rules require us to maintain at least three plans, a

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