Connecticut self insures Medicaid by Jan 1, 2012

[Denver Dave]

Connecticut self insures Medicaid by Jan 1, 2012
http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/ctnj.php/archives/entry/malloy_administration_proposes_changes_to_health_insurance_model/

Willing to do what former Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s administration wasn’t, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and Office of Policy and Management Secretary Ben Barnes said Tuesday that they will move about 556,000 Medicaid recipients to a self-insured plan by Jan. 1, 2012.

The move away from a Managed Care Organization model to a model where the state will assume the risk will save the state “tens of millions” of dollars, Barnes said at a Capitol press conference. However, with only a week to go before the release of the first budget of the Malloy administration, he wasn’t willing to put an exact pricetag on the measure.

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