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October CT Health Policy Webquiz: NCQA rankings of CT health plans

By Ellen Andrews | October 7, 2014

Test your knowledge about the latest NCQA quality rankings of CT health plans . Take the https://cthealthpolicy.org/quiz/oct2014.htm.

Candidates for Governor on health care

By Ellen Andrews | October 6, 2014

To help with your decision Nov. 4th, the CT Mirror has done a great job of describing Malloy record and…

CT has second highest rate of 2013 hospital Medicare readmission penalties

By Ellen Andrews | October 3, 2014

CT was behind only NJ last year in the percent of hospitals receiving Medicare readmission penalties and the average penalty…

Webinar — Provider Payment Reform Options: Aspiration Meets Reality

By Ellen Andrews | October 3, 2014

Join Bob Berenson, MD of the Urban Institute for a CTHPP webinar November 18that 1pm as he explains health care…

CT health reform progress meter up to 28.8%

By Ellen Andrews | October 2, 2014

CT’s progress toward health reform moved up slightly to 28.8% this month, from 28.4% last month. Medicaid accounted for most…

Fascinating discussion — US Senate panel considering regulatory barriers to ACOs

By Ellen Andrews | October 1, 2014

The first meeting of a panel convened by Sen. Angus King (ME) to consider federal regulatory barriers to provider risk…

Investigators highlight problems in Medicaid managed care nationally – but through collaborative effort CT is a success story

By Ellen Andrews | September 30, 2014

Getting a lot of national attention, a new report by federal investigators highlights significant problems in accessing Medicaid care, largely…

HHS finds ACA is lowering hospital uncompensated care costs

By Ellen Andrews | September 29, 2014

CT News Junkie is reporting on a new analysis by HHS finding that hospital uncompensated care costs are down significantly,…

CEPAC diabetes comparative effectiveness meeting Oct. 29th

By Ellen Andrews | September 25, 2014

The next CEPAC meeting will review the latest research on effectiveness of treatments for diabetes. CEPAC is a New England…