Medicaid/Husky
State Supreme Court to decide if widows are responsible for nursing home bills
The New Haven Advocate reports that the CT State Supreme Court is considering a case that could have a devastating…
Read MoreHUSKY HMOs made $19 million profits last year; families paid $323.16 to HMO profits
At the very end of yesterday’s Medicaid Care Management Oversight Council meeting, DSS reported that the HUSKY HMOs made $18.8…
Read MoreNew Orleans health care – five years after Katrina
Yesterday, the NASHP conference in New Orleans started with a plenary session on the state of health care in the…
Read MoreConversion to risk corridors in HUSKY seems less likely
As reported by Christine Stuart at CT News Junkie, in a meeting yesterday the Executive Committee of the Medicaid Managed…
Read MoreWill Charter Oak survive?
An interesting story by Arielle Levin Becker at the CT Mirror asks whether Charter Oak will survive after Governor Rell…
Read MorePCCM/HUSKY Primary Care now on Facebook
The effort to move PCCM forward in Connecticut is taking a new turn – yes, we are joining Facebook! Type…
Read MoreDSS outlines options to move HUSKY away from capitation – or not
At yesterday’s Medicaid Care Management Oversight Council (formerly known as the Medicaid Managed Care Council), DSS outlined three policy options…
Read MoreEnhanced Medicaid match funding moving through Senate
The Senate has reached a deal on an extension of the enhanced Medicaid matching funds that most states had already…
Read More150,000 coming into already troubled Medicaid program
Finally attention is being paid to probably the largest impact of national reform – an estimated 150,000 people in CT…
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