Stop the privatization of Connecticut Medicaid now! Help us ensure full access to quality healthcare for all by demanding the CT Office of Health Strategy (OHS) stops primary care capitation now! Send comments to OHS by 3pm on January 14, 2022!

Primary care capitation has proven to be unsuccessful at producing savings or improvements to access quality medical care. In fact, primary care capitation would pose a significant risk to Medicaid recipients. Under a capitated payment model, primary care providers would be paid a fixed monthly rate per patient, regardless of the number of times a patient is seen—or if they see them at all. Because this payment system will be difficult to impose on private insurance plans, it will likely only affect Medicaid recipients. As primary care providers would be paid a fixed rate to see patients, it would create a disincentive to treat Medicaid patients regularly and as needed; instead, it will incentivize providers to see other patients covered by private insurance paying out per office visit.

This will harm Medicaid patients who have complex medical problems requiring multiple visits. Medicaid patients are also low-income individuals, disproportionately Black and Brown people, who will be directly and negatively impacted by this profit-driven scheme!

Primary care capitation is one among many concerns raised about the OHS Primary Care Roadmap. For an in depth description of the Roadmap and concerns raised by Connecticut Health Policy Project, please click here.

Fill out your information to the right to start writing your comments to the CT Office of Health Strategy now! Remember, you only have until 3pm on Jan 14, 2022 to send your public comments!