Medicaid/Husky

CSG, ERC pass resolutions to preserve Medicaid state-federal partnership

By Ellen Andrews | December 15, 2016

At our meetings in Virginia last week, both the Nationaland Eastern Region Council of State Governments passed resolutions urging federal…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…