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Providers across sectors ask Appropriations to shore up Medicaid rates and budget supports
Summary
Clinics, hospitals, home‑health and behavioral‑health providers warned the committee that current Medicaid reimbursement levels and proposed budget changes threaten access to care and urged sustained or increased funding across multiple programs.
Hospital leaders, physicians, community health centers, home‑health agencies, behavioral‑health providers and EMS officials testified that Medicaid payments remain well below the cost of care and that the governor's proposed budget fails to address those gaps sufficiently.
Representatives of Connecticut Hospital Association and multiple hospitals described a structural shortfall in Medicaid payments and urged predictable rate adjustments. “Medicaid pays about 62¢ on what it actually costs to provide that care,” said Michael Bellett, chief financial officer of Stamford Health. Hospital representatives opposed changes in the governor's proposal to increase the hospital tax in a way they said would not remedy the underlying Medicaid shortfall.
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