Medicaid/Husky

Quality challenges remain in CT Medicaid PCMHs

By Ellen Andrews | July 19, 2017

Also at Friday’s meeting, DSS reported on a selection of quality results from 2015, highlighting concerns. The results compared quality…

Déjà vu at Medicaid Council meeting

By Ellen Andrews | July 17, 2017

Friday’s Medicaid Council meeting focused on the controversialPCMH+ shared savings program reminding many observers of years of rosy DSS presentations…

Advocates document concerns with PCMH+ implementation

By Ellen Andrews | June 27, 2017

The Medicaid Study Group, a coalition of independent consumer advocates, have published an update on CT Medicaid’s new payment reform…

Report estimates AHCA would cut $5.9 billion in Medicaid funds to CT

By Ellen Andrews | June 20, 2017

Connecticut would lose $5.9 billion in Medicaid funding from 2019 to 2028 under the American Health Care Act passed by…

New data finds CT leads nation in lowering Medicaid costs

By Ellen Andrews | June 18, 2017

New data from CMS actuaries finds that Medicaid per capita health care spending dropped 5.7% from 2010 to 2014, better…

Medicaid update – administrative conversion drives up call wait times

By Ellen Andrews | June 12, 2017

Friday’s Medicaid oversight council meeting focused on DSS’s conversion to ImpactCT, a new IT system to handle eligibility and enrollment.…

President’s budget proposal includes large cuts to state Medicaid funding, among other health programs

By Ellen Andrews | May 24, 2017

President Trump’s FY 2018 budget proposalincludes $610 billion in mandatory savings over the next decade by instituting state Medicaid block…

Regional state policymakers urge Congress to preserve successful state-federal Medicaid partnership

By Ellen Andrews | April 26, 2017

Yesterday, the Council of State Governments’ Eastern Regional Conference (CSG/ERC) sent a letter calling on Congressional leaders to protect and…

Courant Op-Ed: Plan to ‘Fix’ State Medicaid Program Flawed

By Ellen Andrews | April 23, 2017

From Saturday’s Hartford Courant, “These are lean times and we need our government to be smart about where it puts…