Medicaid/Husky
Appropriations passes a budget
The budget approved by the Appropriations Committee restores many of Governor Rell’s proposed cuts to health care programs. The committee…
HUSKY waiver hearing – good and bad news on PCCM
As expected, yesterday’s Medicaid waiver hearing before the Human Services and Appropriations Committees was contentious and long. DSS brought out…
HUSKY waiver hearing tomorrow; DSS proposal kills PCCM
The Human Services and Appropriations Committees are holding a public hearing tomorrow, March 31st, at 1pm in the LOB Room…
PCCM waiver hearing March 31st
Next Tuesday the Human Services and Appropriations Committees will hold a public hearing on DSS’ proposed waiver application to continue…
Medicaid Managed Care Council meeting; Dumb idea redux
DSS may take advantage of a legislative error and try to implemented premium assistance for HUSKY, according to the department…
Democrats outline three scenarios to save $2.8 billion
Emphasizing that they do not endorse the cuts, the Appropriations Committee described the types of cuts necessary to fill the…
Deficit mitigation plan passes; Eliminates Medicaid payments for never events
Early this morning the General Assembly passed HB 6602, a bill to fill the billion dollar budget gap in the…
Governor releases deficit mitigation proposed cuts for this year
Yesterday Governor Rell released a proposal to mitigate the state budget deficit for the current fiscal year that ends June…
Sheri Aquilino speaks out
The following email arrived at our office yesterday from one of our Board members at the CT Health Policy Project.…