The healthcare cabinet was created last year to study healthcare cost containment models in six states — Massachusetts, Maryland, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Vermont — and develop a viable proposal to manage healthcare spending in Connecticut.
The healthcare cabinet hired third-party consulting firm Bailit Health Purchasing to present a potential proposal.
The proposal includes the following recommendations.
- The consolidation of more than six current healthcare agencies into a single agency called the Connecticut Health Authority.
- The creation of a quasi-independent oversight agency, called the Office of Health Reform, with powers to monitor and influence healthcare cost increases in the state.
- The use of incentives to encourage networking and partnerships between rural, community and urban healthcare providers. These new networks would be called consumer care organizations.
- The transition of Medicaid and state employee benefit programs to value-based payments based on consumer care networks.
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