Medicaid/Husky

25 Advocacy organizations urge legislative leaders to drop OHS Primary Care Roadmap

By Ellen Andrews | February 17, 2022

Download the letter On Tuesday, twenty-five independent advocacy organizations, including the CT Health Policy Project, sent a letter to Connecticut…

Analysis: CT hospital finances during COVID’s first year

By Ellen Andrews | February 9, 2022

Download the report Download the extracted data In 2020, Connecticut hospitals’ revenues exceeded expenses by 2.61% or $325 million. Hospitals…

Yale Policy Institute report on CT’s local public health infrastructure and systems

By Ellen Andrews | January 27, 2022

COVID crystalized the importance of a strong local public health system across our state and the nation. In their latest…

New Cost Cap industry-driven committee gets going

By Ellen Andrews | January 6, 2022

Members of the Office of Health Strategy’s (OHS) latest committee to drive down the growth in Connecticut’s healthcare spending moved…

FAQs on OHS’s Primary Care Roadmap

By Ellen Andrews | January 3, 2022

Download the FAQs here Connecticut’s Office of Health Strategy has developed a Primary Care Roadmap to support primary care in…

Public comment concerns with CT’s primary care plan

By Ellen Andrews | January 1, 2022

Read the public comments Public comment concerns with CT’s primary care plan Today, the CT Health Policy Project submitted public…

Health equity state scorecard finds CT compares well, but needs improvement

By Ellen Andrews | December 13, 2021

Connecticut ranks fifth best among states on overall health equity according to the Commonwealth Fund’s latest state scorecard, but every…

OHS primary care committee sharply critical of agency’s plan

By Ellen Andrews | November 30, 2021

In this month’s meeting of the Office of Health Strategy’s Primary Care Subgroup, patient and consumer advocates joined insurers raising…

CTNJ Op-Ed – The Brainard Fund still making a difference after 64 years

By Ellen Andrews | November 19, 2021

In 2010, I got a call that advocates only dream about. The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving had a dedicated…