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September CT Health Policy Webquiz: CT state employee health plan

By Ellen Andrews | September 4, 2014

Test your knowledge about CT’s state employee health plan costs. Take the September CT Health Policy Webquiz.

CT health reform progress meter finally starts moving up again

By Ellen Andrews | September 3, 2014

Starting to recover from the bomb thrown by SIM leaders in to CT’s Medicaid success, CT’s progress toward health reform…

CT Mirror calculator figures insurance costs for 2015

By Ellen Andrews | September 2, 2014

A cool new calculator from CT Mirror allows visitors to compute coverage costs across health plans with just a few…

New SIM summary online – consumer concerns remain

By Ellen Andrews | August 29, 2014

The administration’s federal SIM application for $64 million is finished. As the plan and application developed, consumer advocates sent five…

New to Book Club: Fixing Health Care Inside & Out

By Ellen Andrews | August 28, 2014

Our latest addition to the CT Health Policy Project Book Club offers very concrete guidance for practices and policymakers working…

Join a tweet chat on CT’s SIM plan Wednesday

By Ellen Andrews | August 26, 2014

A community of CT social media health advocates hold regular tweetchats with the hashtag #hcsmct. A tweetchat is a public…

CT state employee plan premiums 25% more than US average

By Ellen Andrews | August 25, 2014

According to a new report, CT state employee plan premiums averaged $1,199 per employee last year, the 9th highest rate…

SIM administrators seeking planning consultants should avoid prior mistakes

By Ellen Andrews | August 22, 2014

State SIM administrators are soliciting bids for a new set of consultants to guide the implementation process. Given the problems…

CMS stopped reimbursing CT for new Medicaid eligibles in January

By Ellen Andrews | August 21, 2014

CT News Junkie reported today that CMS halted reimbursements for the newly eligible Medicaid members as of January 1st. The…