Medicaid/Husky

Medicaid Council meeting clears up misinformation on HUSKY parents fate under ACA

By Ellen Andrews | December 17, 2012

The CT Health Insurance Exchange staff’s presentation to the Medicaid Council Friday described the “opportunity” under the Affordable Care Act…

HUSKY B saves $4 million in switch from HMOs

By Ellen Andrews | December 14, 2012

As advocates predicted, it appears the shift from capitated managed care to self-insurance saved the HUSKY Part B program $4…

December webquiz – CT spending on medical assistance programs

By Ellen Andrews | December 4, 2012

Test your knowledge of DSS spending on medical assistance programs, most notably Medicaid. Take the December CT Health Policy Project…

Medicaid outreach recommendations

By Ellen Andrews | December 3, 2012

Small grants, engaging an army of trusted community messengers, ubiquitous marketing, and robust monitoring will be critical to enrolling the…

Who is coming into LIA?

By Ellen Andrews | November 20, 2012

Today’s CT Mirror asks the question – who are the 37,000 new enrollees in the Low Income Adult Program? LIA…

Medicaid Council update

By Ellen Andrews | October 14, 2012

Lots of good news at Friday’s MAPOC meeting. DSS has significantly improved their redetermination process in response to huge backlogs…

Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act

By Ellen Andrews | June 28, 2012

Today the US Supreme Court affirmed almost all of the 2010 national health reform Affordable Care Act. This is a…

Medicaid Council meeting update

By Ellen Andrews | June 10, 2012

Friday’s Medicaid Assistance Program Oversight Council meeting was very productive and mainly positive. The main area of discussion was DSS’…

Comments on dual eligible proposal center on behavioral health co-lead

By Ellen Andrews | May 27, 2012

Comments at Friday’s Complex Care Committee meeting focused on the late addition of requiring a behavioral health co-lead to DSS’s…