Medicaid/Husky

DSS plans for high-cost, high-need members focuses on behavioral health

By Ellen Andrews | November 8, 2016

At yesterday’s online MAPOC Complex Care Committee meeting, DSS described their innovation plan to address the needs of high-cost, high-need…

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Troubling Cabinet vote for downside risk on Medicaid and state employees, but there will be a public hearing

By Ellen Andrews | November 3, 2016

  In a 13 to 4 vote Tuesday, the Health Care Cabinet voted to impose the controversial downside risk payment…

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Medicaid Council weighs in on Health Care Cabinet reform proposal

By Ellen Andrews | October 19, 2016

Last week’s Medicaid Council meeting focused on the controversial Strawman proposal for reforming CT’s health care system and the implications…

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Setting the Record Straight on Broken Promises, Now Let’s Move On

By Ellen Andrews | October 19, 2016

Medicaid advocates and providers have been talking a lot about the administration’s policy reversal with a troubling decision to consider…

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CT Medicaid ACOs announced

By Ellen Andrews | October 5, 2016

Provider networks authorized to negotiate for participation in PCMH+ (formerly MQISSP), CT Medicaid’s new shared savings program, have been announced.…

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Medicaid update – HUSKY parents’ fate, access monitoring plan, eligibility systems update and first look at Medicaid impact of controversial Health Care Cabinet proposal

By Ellen Andrews | September 19, 2016

This month’s Medicaid Council meeting began with ongoing concerns about what happened to HUSKY parents cut off the program at…

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Twenty-six advocates support DSS decision to evaluate Medicaid reform

By Ellen Andrews | July 29, 2016

Wednesday 26 independent consumer advocates wrote the Lieutenant Governor supporting DSS’s decision to evaluate outcomes after the first wave of…

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Medicaid update – HUSKY parents’ time running out, home health and dental get different cuts, autism services moving

By Ellen Andrews | July 11, 2016

Friday’s Medicaid Council touched on several critical issues. We got an update, of sorts, on the fate of HUSKY parents…

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New HUSKY parents numbers show a lot of work needed before July 31st

By Ellen Andrews | July 5, 2016

No one knows why, but the number of HUSKY parents expected to lose coverage at the end of this month…

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