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New SIM under service survey — please help protect consumers
The SIM Equity and Access Committee is working to develop a monitoring system for inappropriate underservice as CT’s health system…
Public forum tonight about St. Mary’s Hospital purchase and for-profit conversion
At 5pm tonight there will be a public forum at St. Mary’s Hospital’s Conference Center Auditorium about plans to sell…
Value over Volume 2.0 – twenty three tools for state policymakers to improve quality and control costs
Health care costs consume nearly a quarter of state budgets, and that share is rising at a rate that policymakers…
$3 million in ACA insurance rebates coming to CT residents
69,186 CT residents will soon receive $3 million in rebates from insurers that spent less than 80% (individual coverage) or…
SIM application online
CT’s SIM application has been submitted and is online. An analysis will be coming soon.
New to Book Club – Think Like a Freak
The newest addition to the CT Health Policy Project Book Club, Think Like a Freak, offers tools to unlock creativity…
June CT Health Policy Webquiz: CT health system performance
Test your knowledge about Connecticut’s health system performance. Take the July CT Health Policy Webquiz.
CMS announces new assistance for states to improve health system, many SIM alternatives
Today CMS unveiled the Innovation Accelerator Program providing states with over 50 tools, programs and technical assistance to improve Medicaid…
SIM moving ahead with risky Medicaid plan despite 25 advocates’ objections
At yesterday’s meeting, the SIM steering committee chose to move ahead with plans to radically change the Medicaid program –…