Center for Children’s Advocacy Senior Staff Attorney Bonnie Roswig has worked for years to improve the state’s medical transportation for low income families. On June 2, 2017, Connecticut announced the selection of a new provider.

State Picks New Provider of Medical Rides for Medicaid Patients

Hartford Courant
June 2, 2017

In a move aimed at improving the quality of medical rides to sick children and adults on Medicaid, the state has begun negotiations with an Arizona-based contractor to take over a program that has been the subject of complaints from lawmakers and patient advocates. Problems with the current transportation broker, LogistiCare, included cabs arriving with random passengers to pick up child cancer patients with suppressed immune systems, in violation of doctors’ “no-shared ride” orders; and parents and children missing appointments or stranded for hours when the rides never showed up or were late. 

“Our concerns were the struggles of Medicaid patients — parents and children stranded when rides came late or not at all, orders from medical-providers ignored,” said Bonnie Roswig, a lawyer with the Center for Children’s Advocacy…

Read the full article here:

https://cca-ct.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Courant-LogistiCare-Jun-2-2107.pdf

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