CT Health Reform
HealthFirst Authority draft report
The Authority’s much anticipated draft report was unveiled earlier this month. Thankfully, it does not include a recommendation for an…
Health First Authority update
The Authority is winding down, but there is still no draft of the plan. At Monday’s meeting, members got a…
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…
New law allows children to stay on their parents’ policies until age 26, but there’s a catch
A new law takes effect January 1, 2009 that allows children to stay on their parent’s health policies to age…
PCCM applications rolling in
They are still counting provider applications at DSS for participation in PCCM, but early returns are encouraging. Dozens of providers…
PCCM could save HUSKY more than $100 million over HMOs
An analysis by the CT Health Policy Project estimates that it will cost the state $113 million more annually to moving…
HUSKY/Charter Oak update
At today’s Medicaid Managed Care Council, the HUSKY HMOs’ provider panel reports showed that progress continues to be very slow.…