Updates on health policy in Connecticut
Medicaid update: LTSS working to keep people out of nursing homes, hospitals
By Ellen Andrews |
Friday’s Medicaid Council meeting focused on rebalancing long term services and supports allowing more members to stay at home, if ...
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CTNJ: CT uninsured rate up, especially for higher income households
By Ellen Andrews |
New Census data on the uninsured is always a big event for policy types. This year most expected the numbers ...
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Another reason to be glad HUSKY fired managed care
By Ellen Andrews |
New favorite quote – “If you have a dumb incentive system, you get dumb outcomes.” Charlie Munger, quoted by 46brooklyn ...
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CT hospital readmission penalties up for next year
By Ellen Andrews |
Next year, Medicare will penalize CT hospitals by an average of 0.74% in readmission penalties and all CT hospitals will ...
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Medicaid update: Enrollment numbers coming finally, highlighting progress
By Ellen Andrews |
Friday’s Medicaid Council meeting focused on enrollment numbers and reviewing achievements in the program. DSS outlined challenges that have delayed ...
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Connecticut’s uninsured rate up, reversing four-year trend
By Ellen Andrews |
New numbers from the US Census Bureau report that 194,000 or 5.5% of Connecticut residents were uninsured last year. That ...
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CT uninsured numbers up breaking four year trend
By Ellen Andrews |
The US Census estimates that last year 194,000 CT residents, 5.5% of us, were uninsured according to data released today. ...
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CTNJ op-ed: Health disparities are real and new payment schemes are probably making them worse
By Ellen Andrews |
Connecticut is a very healthy place; we rank fifth healthiest among states. But not all state residents share in that ...
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CT excels at getting Medicaid-eligible families enrolled
By Ellen Andrews |
A new study finds that 96.3% of CT children eligible for HUSKY participated in the program in 2016; we are ...
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