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DSS seeks authority for voluntary hospital global budgets as Connecticut joins federal AHEAD model
Summary
Connecticut’s Department of Social Services and Office of Health Strategy told lawmakers Feb. 3 that the state has been selected for a federal AHEAD planning grant and needs statutory authority in HB 6836 to launch a voluntary hospital global payment (global budget) model for participating hospitals.
Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves of the Department of Social Services and Office of Health Strategy staff described the state’s authority request to implement the All‑Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) hospital global payment model and asked the Public Health Committee to approve language in House Bill 6836 to allow voluntary hospital global budgets.
DSS said the state has been awarded a $12,000,000 federal planning and implementation grant from the federal Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to design and pilot hospital global budgets for participating hospitals. Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves told the committee the program is voluntary for hospitals and would let participating hospitals receive a single, global payment to support hospital operations and to invest in community‑based prevention…
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