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A Better Idea for SIM-Medicaid: Coordinate Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients
Independent consumer advocates and others have raised grave concerns about Connecticut’s State Innovation Model (SIM) plans to radically change financial…
CT health reform progress moving backward
CT’s progress toward health reform dropped from 29.0% to 27.4% this month mainly because of SIM setbacks and state budget…
Unfortunate SCOTUS decision limits Medicaid provider rights
A decision yesterday by the US Supreme Court reversed a Ninth Circuit decision and ruled that providers do not have…
CTNJ Op-Ed: Health Neighborhood cuts misguided
An Op-Ed in today’s CT News Junkie focuses on the Governor’s proposal to cut funding for innovative health neighborhood pilots…
Deficit grows, Medicaid revenues below expectations – Let’s hope for good news from April tax receipts
Legislative and administrative deficit estimates for this year vary by $52.8 million, about 0.3% of the total General Fund. However…
Guest blog: It’s Not Patients’ Fault!
No, really, it’s not our fault. According to a study published last month by JAMA Oncol, it is a myth…
Integrating behavioral health into primary care focus of next CEPAC meeting
The next CEPAC meeting will review the latest research on best practices to effectively integrate behavioral health into primary care…
Medicaid MCOs not working in Missouri, inhibiting expansion, MO could learn from CT’s experience
Legislators are reluctant to expand Missouri’s Medicaid program because the managed care organization (MCO)-led program not as efficient as the…
CTNJ Op-Ed: McDonald’s rejects chicken fed antibiotics
An Op-Ed today in CT News Junkie celebrates McDonald’s for refusing to sell food from chickens fed antibiotics. 23,000 Americans…