We got lots of good news at today’s Medicaid Council
meeting.
New
financial reports show that since October of 2013 HUSKY enrollment has
grown 20% but spending has grown only 13.6%. Per person spending on HUSKY Part
D, which includes the former SAGA members and the newly eligible childless
adults from the ACA, has actually decreased slightly. We expected pent-up
demand for services to increase that number for a short time; this may indicate
that it is a healthier population that has enrolled.
Another
report, a précis, summarizes the considerable innovations in the program
since the shift from capitated managed care plans to an ASO model, including
exciting new data. The program now benefits from predictive modeling and
tracking of health measures that can help providers deliver the right care to
the right person at the right time. We also heard about improvement in the
ConnectCT enrollment system – average wait time on the phone to talk with a
benefit center is down from 78 minutes in August to 66 minutes last month. DSS
talked about plans to bring that down further. We also heard about the
behavioral
health program’s efforts to improve access to care.
