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CT Mirror Opinion: Keep MCOs out of HUSKY health care

By Ellen Andrews | August 21, 2024

“In the past, managed care organizations were a disaster for Connecticut’s Medicaid program“ Former legislator, Medicaid provider, member of Medicaid’s…

Analysis: Medicare’s drug price negotiation – Why it’s a big deal

By Ellen Andrews | August 20, 2024

For the first time, Medicare has negotiated prices with pharmaceutical companies. Prescription drug costs are a significant driver of rising…

HUSKY evaluation call is broad; Includes MCOs but is not biased

By Ellen Andrews | August 12, 2024

Updated August 15, 2024 with Questions and Answers to DSS Last month, DSS released their promised request for quotes (RFQ)…

HUSKY parents’ cut expected to impact 15,300 starting in October

By Ellen Andrews | August 8, 2024

In this year’s budget, Connecticut policymakers cut Medicaid/HUSKY coverage for 15,300 low-income parents and caretakers of children. The timing of…

Book Club: Random Acts of Medicine

By Ellen Andrews | August 8, 2024

Deliberately randomized experiments in medicine and health policy are usually not possible, or even moral. But with increasingly available data…

CT Mirror: Lamont exploring Medicaid managed care, but many push back

By Ellen Andrews | July 25, 2024

Today, CT Mirror published an overview of the Governor’s project to review Connecticut Medicaid, looking for potential improvements to improve…

DSS gets input for Medicaid landscape survey

By Ellen Andrews | July 23, 2024

At last week’s MAPOC meeting, DSS announced they will be hiring a consultant to survey the Medicaid landscape assessing options…

CT Healthcare Explained is updating

By Ellen Andrews | July 16, 2024

We are taking on the massive project of updating CT Healthcare Explained. We just finished the Workforce chapter, including updated…

CT medical debt levels declining, new state law will help even more

By Ellen Andrews | July 15, 2024

The percent of Connecticut residents with medical debt is coming down, but it still affects one in 28 of us,…