Medicaid/Husky
CT MFP program success featured in Health Affairs
An article in this month’s Health Affairs describes CT Medicaid’s successful Money Follows the Person program. The study by UConn…
Administration agrees to more time to design Medicaid reform
Monday the administration announced that they will delay the redesign of CT’s Medicaid program by at least six months. In…
Independent advocates call for more study on Medicaid payment shift
A letter signed by twenty one independent consumer advocates calls on the state to halt the SIM-driven Medicaid’s rush into…
Shared savings math doesn’t add up, CCIP plans could undermine Medicaid
A new brief outlines the risk to taxpayers from Medicaid shared savings increasing health costs, as SIM is pressing. About half…
CTNJ Op-Ed: Let’s Halt the Rush to Risky Medicaid Experiment
Today’s CT News Junkie includes an opinion piece urging caution and more time for thoughtful deliberation in moving 200,000 HUSKY…
Advocates’ Medicaid Study Group offers recommendations for Medicaid shared savings reform
Over a dozen Connecticut independent consumer advocates representing diverse populations and issue areas spent the last several months diving deep…
$103 million in new budget cuts Medicaid, mental health services
On Friday, the administration announced $103 million new budget cuts in response to lagging revenues. The biggest cut is…
ACOs not saving for Medicare, model could cost CT Medicaid almost $100m/year
CMS’s vast shared savings experiment for Medicare has disappointed again in its second year. The plan was to encourage providers…
Advocates support SIM underservice, cherry picking protections
Connecticut’s SIM plan acknowledges that risks of inappropriate under-treatment and cherry-picking are higher in new shared savings payment models. Advocates…