Medicaid/Husky
House stimulus package would give CT $474 million for Medicaid; COBRA subsidies for unemployed
Yesterday the US House passed an $819 billion stimulus package meant to reverse the declining economy. A great deal of…
HUSKY/PCCM update
Yesterday’s meeting of the Medicaid Managed Care Council was lively, but ended before addressing some important issues. The Commissioner acknowledged…
CMS approves forcing HUSKY families into HMOs
In a reversal of their position in a Dec. 5th letter, CMS is now allowing DSS to force 138,000 HUSKY…
HUSKY (waiting for news) and PCCM (more bad news) update
DSS has now changed the date of PCCM’s start from next Thursday to February 1st even in the two small…
PCCM advocates forced to walk out of meeting
Yesterday’s PCCM working group meeting at DSS did not go well. DSS had no agenda for the meeting which started…
Charter Oak “pettiness”
To root out the sources of “negativity” about the Governor’s troubled Charter Oak program, on Friday DSS Commissioner Starkowski made…
AG, Health Care and Child Advocates call on Governor to separately re-bid HUSKY and Charter Oak contracts
In a press conference today, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, State Health Care Advocate Kevin Lembo, and State Child Advocate Jeanne…
Governor delinks HUSKY from Charter Oak, guts PCCM
Friday afternoon Governor Rell announced that she will reverse two long standing policies that jeopardized health care for over 340,000…
PCCM applications rolling in
They are still counting provider applications at DSS for participation in PCCM, but early returns are encouraging. Dozens of providers…