February’s CT Health Reform
Dashboard update reflects growing concerns about CT’s Medicaid program. Problems
with the new EVV system threaten consumer access to home care, provider
sustainability and privacy rights. The experimental PCMH+ program began a month
ago, but no information on the program has been shared and plans for evaluation
too
little and too late to identify harm, overspending or erosion of CT
Medicaid’s hard-won progress over the last five years. But, even if they
stumble upon a problem, it will be too late to fix it. The Cabinet continues
exploring prescription drug cost control with a lot of room for agreement on
that pressing budget issue. In good news, state oversight of YNHH’s acquisition
of L&M is getting better with insistence that community representatives and
consumer advocates be included in the solution.
