CHCACT has produced a shareable brochure highlighting Community Health Centers and our 2020 Legislative priorities.

Legislative Priorities 2020

1. Developing a Workforce for Community Health

• Our goal is to make Connecticut competitive for high-demand medical professions.

2. Integrating Primary Care and Behavioral Health

• We support the improved the ability for a primary care providers to connect patients with behavioral health clinicians.

3. Strengthening the nonprofit property tax exemption

• • We propose clarifying nonprofit property tax exemptions.
     

4. Improving Non-emergency Medical Transportation

• Support efforts to improve the Medicaid non-emergency medical transportation service.

2020 Strategies to Support Healthcare Quality & Cost Containment

• Embrace Alternative Payment Models focused on Quality
  Identify alternative payment models that reward providers for improving the healthcare status of patients and reducing or stabilizing total cost of care.
• Increase investments in lower cost Primary Care/Preventive Care services
  Invest in technologies, equipment, and infrastructure to increase access and integrate a variety of health care services in innovative ways.
• Leverage Expertise in Practice Transformation to Reduce Overall Health Care Costs
  Utilize the expertise of CHCACT and our associated health centers to continue to drive “in-the-practice” transformational process change.

For more information about these issues, contact Sara LeMaster: slemaster@chcact.org or 860-967-3852

Download a PDF of the brochure on the CHCACT Advocacy and Involvement page.