State’s Health Care Transfer Under Way
Thursday, January 08, 2009
With a nod from federal regulators, Connecticut officials have begun the final transition of clients in the HUSKY health program into new managed-care insurance plans.
Federal officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved the state’s plan to transfer roughly 145,000 of the program’s 300,000 clients into new plans offered by the insurers Aetna Better Health and Americhoice, over the objections of health care advocates who say the companies don’t have sufficient doctors and specialists under contract to care for the new patients.
The state Department of Social Services, which administers the program, began mailing notices to affected clients Tuesday, instructing them to select a new plan by Jan. 28 or have one chosen for them by the department. Clients will be forcibly switched to new insurers on Feb. 1.
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