Gov. Ned Lamont’s new budget replaces a previously approved tax cut for hospitals with a $43 million tax hike.
Nursing Homes
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Senate Dems offer nursing home staffing bill
Senate Democrats unveiled a proposal Thursday to encourage nursing homes to maximize staff assigned to direct patient care.
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CT businesses offer first of six blueprints to cut state spending
Connecticut’s businesses delivered the first of a promised series of blueprints Wednesday to cut state spending over the long haul. The Connecticut Regional Institute for the 21st Century estimated the state could save $657 million annually on long-term care costs by 2025.
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Nursing home strike postponed at Malloy’s request
A healthcare union closely allied with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Tuesday it has acceded to a request by the governor for a postponement of a nursing home strike by 3,500 workers in 20 communities.
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Nursing home workers vote to strike, send message to both employers and lawmakers
Workers at 27 nursing homes have voted to strike later this month, a move aimed at both their employers and state lawmakers wrangling over a state budget that has significant implications for nursing homes.
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Nursing home residents clipped again by Malloy’s budget proposal
Once again Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget is targeting Connecticut’s nursing home residents — this time squeezing their personal needs allowance down to $50 a month, some $19 lower than it was in 2011. How can any nursing home resident maintain a decent quality of life on $50 a month?
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Op-Ed: Nursing home residents clipped again by Malloy’s budget proposal
Once again Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget is targeting Connecticut’s nursing home residents — this time squeezing their personal needs allowance down to $50 a month, some $19 lower than it was in 2011. How can any nursing home resident maintain a decent quality of life on $50 a month?
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Providers, advocates call Malloy Medicaid cuts short-sighted
Critics say Malloy’s proposal to cut Medicaid is financially short-sighted and threatens to undermine recent progress in a program that has added thousands of new members as part of the federal health law, expanded the network of providers willing to treat them, and reduced its per-client costs.
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Medicaid clients, seniors, health care providers face cuts under governor’s plan
About 34,000 parents would lose Medicaid coverage. Seniors would have to pay more for home care. The state would abandon a plan to better coordinate care for the costliest Medicaid clients and most health care providers that treat Medicaid patients would face a pay cut. It is all part of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s aim to save hundreds of millions of dollars through cuts to health care and social service programs.
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SEIU 1199 wins fight for CT nursing home transparency law
SEIU 1199 New England, a union closely allied with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, won final passage early Tuesday of new financial reporting rules for nursing homes, a reaction to the union’s long, continuing fight with HealthBridge Management, a company that has claimed financial distress to escape contract obligations.
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House OKs nursing home transparency, despite GOP talkfest
A sharply divided House of Representatives voted Tuesday night for new financial reporting rules on nursing homes that were proposed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy at the request of a union ally, SEIU 1199 New England.
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Courtney hopeful Congress will address Medicare “observation status”
After years of trying, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd district, said Tuesday that he’s optimistic that Congress will take action to address a technicality that has left thousands of Medicare patients without coverage for nursing home care after leaving the hospital.
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Home care, Medicaid pay, inmate health care in Malloy proposal
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget expands home care programs, creates a new medical assistance program for ex-inmates and provides money to pay primary doctors who treat Medicaid patients. It doesn’t offer any respite to hospitals.