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Community Care Teams addressing high-cost Medicaid member needs

By Ellen Andrews | October 26, 2015

Friday’s MAPOC Complex Care Committee meeting focused on Community Care Teams (CCTs) that collaborate across social service to help people…

CTNJ Op-Ed on CT’s ACA progress covering the uninsured

By Ellen Andrews | October 23, 2015

Yesterday’s op-ed in CT News Junkie focused on CT’s mixed results in covering the uninsured under the Affordable Care Act.…

ACA and covering the uninsured: How did CT do?

By Ellen Andrews | October 21, 2015

An analysis of new Census data finds that 88,000 more CT residents had coverage last year than the year before,…

Anthem, Aetna and CIGNA have 82.5% of CT health insurance enrollment

By Ellen Andrews | October 20, 2015

  As always, this year’s managed care report card from CT’s Insurance Dept. is fascinating.  Anthem has 44% of total…

Half of CT’s remaining uninsured eligible for subsidies or Medicaid

By Ellen Andrews | October 14, 2015

A new analysis by Kaiser finds that 47% of CT’s remaining uninsured are eligible for subsidized coverage. The latest Census…

NJ conference on Medicaid ACOs – deep commitment to applying lessons learned

By Ellen Andrews | October 12, 2015

A CT contingent ventured to NJ last week for their 4thAnnual MedicaidPayment Reform Summit. The conference was sponsored by the QI…

CT Medicaid spending down 4.2% from FY 14 to FY 15

By Ellen Andrews | October 8, 2015

Happily CT’s Medicaid program is bucking the state budget trend. State spending on CT’s Medicaid program fell 4.2% between state…

CT MFP program success featured in Health Affairs

By Ellen Andrews | October 7, 2015

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

By Ellen Andrews | October 6, 2015

Monday the administration announced that they will delay the redesign of CT’s Medicaid program by at least six months. In…