Medicaid/Husky

Calls needed to save healthcare for 13,000 working parents

By Ellen Andrews | May 7, 2018

Unless legislators act soon, 13,000 working parents will lose HUSKY coverage this coming January 1st. Sally Grossman, one of those…

CT News Junkie: What does it take to stop repeating a bad idea?

By Ellen Andrews | April 24, 2018

Albert Einstein believed the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.…

Thirty-one independent consumer advocates share concerns with SIM’s latest push for capitation

By Ellen Andrews | April 17, 2018

Despite the historic failures of capitation in Connecticut and beyond, our state’s SIM health planning office is continuing the drumbeat…

Smart CT Medicaid smoking cessation coverage

By Ellen Andrews | April 6, 2018

A new CDC analysis finds that CT’s Medicaid program is among the most progressive in covering smoking cessation treatments. Medicaid…

CTNJ op-ed: Connecticut should be careful building a public insurance option through Medicaid

By Ellen Andrews | April 2, 2018

Health insurance is too expensive in Connecticut and it may get worse with troubling new federal policies. But one proposed…

Committee develops care plan best practices recommendations for Medicaid

By Ellen Andrews | February 27, 2018

The Complex Care Committee of CT’s Medicaid Council has made recommendations to DSS for careplans in the Medicaid program. The…

CTNJ: Advocates must inform consumers of risks when the state won’t

By Ellen Andrews | February 26, 2018

This week, independent advocates launched PCMHPlusFacts.org, a campaign to give HUSKY members balanced information about an experimental, new payment model expanding…

Advocates launch PCMHPlusFacts.org, giving HUSKY members balanced information on the controversial new program

By Ellen Andrews | February 20, 2018

Today, independent consumer advocates launched a website, PCMHPlusFacts.org, to explain the facts about HUSKY’s experimental, new payment plan to run…

Corrected: Opt-ing out of PCMH+ isn’t easy, and that’s not evidence that PCMH+ works

By Ellen Andrews | February 15, 2018

Correction – The notice sent to PCMH Plus consumers in December 2016 included the accurate phone number to  call to…