While more states are turning to managed care in an effort to cut their Medicaid costs, Connecticut is moving in the opposite direction.  State officials have decided that managed care did not live up to its promise to reduce the state’s Medicaid costs, so after 15 years it has terminated its contracts with HMOs and turned over responsibility for administering care for its more than 400,000 Medicaid recipients to state employees.

Read more about how and why Connecticut reached this decision, how it plans to proceed on its own, and how its actions might affect other states in this Kaiser Health News report.

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