Lamont: CT Residents Should Use Health Centers Despite HHS Policy

Lamont: CT residents should use health centers despite HHS policy

Days after the Donald J. Trump administration announced that undocumented immigrants will no longer have access to certain federal benefits, including funding that supports care at community health centers, Gov. Ned Lamont encouraged all residents to continue seeking medical treatment at Connecticut’s health centers. “This is what the federally qualified health centers do — we take care of you, no questions asked,” he said Wednesday morning at a…

CT increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for community health centers

(Flickr Commons)Connecticut is raising Medicaid reimbursement rates for its federally qualified community health centers (FQHCs).The state has 17 institutions. They mainly treat patients with incomes at or below the federal poverty level and don’t turn away people who can’t afford to pay.Connecticut will spend an additional $80 million over the next three years to reimburse them for treating Medicaid patients.Andrea Barton Reeves, the commission…