Current Action items
- Fix insurance exchange leadership
- Medicaid infrastructure
- Build state government capacity for planning and implementation
- Recruit Medicaid providers
- Engage consumer voices across all planning areas
- Public education on keeping well and using the health system
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Medicaid
- HMO to ASO transition successful, uneventful
- Payment reform for dual eligible in development
- Improving data and analysis
- Integrated enrollment and eligibility in planning
- Building agency workforce for planning
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- State employee plan expanding
- 632 NCQA recognized in CT and growing
- Medicaid program small but growing
- CPCI application denied, must keep collaboration
momentum
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- Insurer dominated Board
- Extended CEO search
- Meetings behind closed doors
- Advisory committees forming
- Bill moving to add voting consumer members
- Engaged PR firm to repair image
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Insurance market reform
- Rate review weak
- SustiNet killed - no public option
- Anti-competitive market
- CSMS coop application submitted
- SustiNet Cabinet Business Plan Committee collecting information
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Health Information Technology
- eHealthCT supporting providers with EHRs
- DSS getting Medicaid subsidies out to providers
- Privacy and security
problems grave for HITE-CT exchange
- Bill to protect privacy rights watered down
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Payment reform and quality improvement
- ACOs forming across the state
- Medicaid pilot for dual eligible in development
- All-payer claims database in very early talks
- Little assessment of overtreatment
- Comparative effectiveness research not used or supported in public
programs
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Health Care Workforce
- WISH grant
- Report with data, needs assessment, recommendations, and a pathway to
building capacity
- Need more clinical training slots
- Need to build primary care capacity
- Need new skill training for current professionals
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