… unless they want to.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell and the state Department of Social Services announced last Friday healthcare providers were no longer required to join BOTH Rell’s new Charter Oak Health Plan or HUSKY for low-income children.
But since then some observers have questioned whether the administration meant physicians do not have to join AT THE SAME TIME but will eventually be required by the three managed care companies overseeing Charter Oak and HUSKY to sign-up for both.
DSS spokesman David Dearborn told me today that is not the case. He said there is “no requirement” to join both HUSKY and Charter Oak.
“If a doctor is approached (by a managed care company) and says ‘Gee, I want to enroll with you in HUSKY but I can’t do Charter Oak’ or vice versa, that’s okay,” Dearborn said. “That’s not to say the company won’t try to interest him or her to enroll at a later date … But a doctor can choose one or the other or both.”
