Connecticut
Even with a generous commercial insurance benefit package, there was a concern that the
needs of Connecticut’s children with special health care needs would not be
adequately accommodated. Connecticut provides a supplemental wraparound package, titled
Husky Plus, specifically for children’s special health care needs. The supplemental
Husky Plus package:
- Simultaneously provides benefits from Husky B (Title XXI) and Husky Plus:
- Children are determined to be medically eligible for both plans based on designated
screening tools to measure level of impairment.
- In each plan, Care Coordinators develop a treatment plan in coordination with the
primary care provider and the utilization review staff in the Husky B plan.
- Established a new plan specifically for children with special behavioral needs which
utilizes community providers selected through a RFP process.
- Provides care coordination modeled on the existing Title V program. In each plan, care
coordinators develop a treatment plan in coordination with the primary care provider and
the utilization review staff in the Husky B plan.
- Utilizes two Title V centers of excellence as provider sources:
- Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.
- Yale Children’s Hospital.
- Utilizes the Title V steering committee as the steering committee for Husky Plus.
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