Governor Lamont Announces Agreement To Expand Access to Health Coverage for Personal Care Attendants

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03/15/2023

Governor Lamont Announces Settlement To Expand Access to Health and fitness Coverage for Personal Care Attendants

(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont these days introduced that his administration has taken measures to more develop obtain to reasonably priced health coverage for particular treatment attendants (PCAs), who deliver important expert services and aid to more than 7,000 of Connecticut’s Medicaid buyers so they can stay in their properties and communities.

The Connecticut Particular Care Attendant Workforce Council and SEIU 1199 have come to an agreement to broaden the application deadline for PCAs to use for the initially round of the new Quality Help gain as a result of their selected fiscal intermediary. PCAs may perhaps now apply for the advantage through April 7, 2023. This particular enrollment time period for protection through Obtain Health CT runs from March 15, 2023, to May well 15, 2023. For these who do not utilize for assistance by April 7, 2023, another application period of time will be furnished afterwards this yr with payment on or around September in time for the conventional open up enrollment period on Access Health CT.

“Our particular treatment attendants deliver precious expert services to our most vulnerable citizens, supporting them to continue to dwell independently and beneath their very own phrases,” Governor Lamont claimed. “Providing our PCAs with the possibility to enroll in Access Well being CT is the suitable point to do, and I am happy that Connecticut is a single of the 1st states that is making this readily available for this workforce. I persuade every single one particular of our PCAs who are not enrolled in overall health protection to sign up for this critical profit.”

In a groundbreaking deal achieved in May well of 2022 between the Personal Care Attendant Workforce Council, an entity proven to stand for the condition and Medicaid consumers in collective bargaining, and District 1199NE Wellbeing Treatment Workers’ Union, a premium support profit was manufactured accessible for the first time to present economical aid that would let PCAs, who do not qualify for Included CT or other employer coverage, the means to obtain health and fitness coverage by way of Accessibility Overall health CT, the state’s health insurance coverage trade, or to help protect other out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Connecticut is a leader between states in offering an possibility for health care top quality guidance to PCAs.

To aid the use of quality guidance and assistance PCAs navigate solutions on the exchange, the council took the unprecedented phase of partnering with Obtain Wellness CT to set up a exclusive enrollment time period and dedicated phone line with navigator guidance for PCAs so that they can conveniently find the finest overall health insurance policy selection for them and get hold of enrollment guidance. The Access Wellbeing CT navigators also display the PCAs for eligibility for the HUSKY and Coated CT systems. It is a 1-quit-shop for PCAs to uncover the best health protection for on their own and their family members.

This workforce is used straight by members in the state’s self-directed Medicaid systems, Group 1st Alternative, and specific Medicaid waivers. The self-directed Medicaid choice will allow more mature adults and persons of a variety of talents to workout real autonomy and preference more than when, how, and by whom their treatment is offered by furnishing an unique support funds and custom-made care approach that empowers Medicaid recipients to serve as the employer of report and the skill to employ, train and handle their very own PCAs.

PCAs will before long obtain communication from their union and the fiscal intermediary with instructions on how they can access this significant profit.

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