This month’s Health Reform Dashboard
update once again reflects more attempts to unravel progress in CT. Medicaid leads the concerns with the success
of new ACOs at the last minute in blowing up federally required consumer
notices that were carefully negotiated over months, so that consumers will need
a college education to understand the risks of underservice and adverse
selection or how to protect themselves. This is in addition to the
administration’s broken
promises on downside risk and a reversal on whether to conduct or act on a
meaningful evaluation of the new Medicaid shared savings program. Other
concerns include poor choices for monitors and consultants to oversee Yale-New
Haven’s acquisition of L&M’s health system, the Health Care Cabinet
continues to consider troubling
reform recommendations for CT and SIM
ethics concerns continue.
