Opinion: Community health workers deserve their promised reimbursement

CT Mirror – Wednesday, February 11, 2026
By Rhonda Evans, Deb Polun, Fernando Morales and Ayesha Clarke

Rhonda Evans is Executive Director of the Connecticut Association for Community Action; Deb Polun, Chief Strategy Officer of the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut; Fernando Morales, Executive Director of the Southwestern AHEC Connecticut and Ayesha Clarke, Executive Director of Health Equity Solutions.

The General Assembly made a fundamental commitment to the health of Connecticut families in 2023, enacting legislation requiring the state to reimburse for services provided by community health workers to Medicaid enrollees. Yet, more than two years later, Connecticut’s Medicaid program still does not cover community health worker services.

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