Analysis | It’s time to end HUSKY’s ‘value-based’ Medicaid program

CTNewsJunkie – Wednesday, March 26, 2025
By Ellen Andrews

Ellen Andrews, Ph.D., is the executive director of the CT Health Policy Project.

Connecticut’s Person-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Plus program has been troubled from its start in 2017, and it’s time to go in a new direction.

PCMH Plus was originally billed as a value-based system to improve the quality of Medicaid services and to control costs by allowing providers to share in any savings they could generate. However, according to conversations with policymakers at the time, PCMH Plus was actually developed to increase funding for Community Health Centers (CHCs) and to access more federal money in the failed State Innovation Model (SIM) program. CHCs and SIM got the money but, as for most value-based programs, patients and taxpayers didn’t get any benefits.

It needs to go.

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