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Exchange active purchasing bill has a public hearing
The legislature’s Insurance and Real Estate Committee has raised SB-11, An Act Concerning the Duties of the CT Health Insurance…
SIM update – answers, sort of, and further delays in starting work
On Monday, advocates received answers to our questions about the SIM final plan – sort of. We did learn that…
New exchange numbers – good news but lots of questions
CT’s health insurance exchange has enrolled 121,983 people into coverage, exceeding next month’s goal. In other good news, CT is…
Yale Law Student conference on exchanges
Saturday the Yale Health Law & Policy Society held a fascinating conferenceon health insurance exchanges – early challenges and opportunities.…
Press on Governor’s budget and health
Press accounts hold more information on the Governor’s budget including what’s not there – relief for hospital cuts in previous…
Governor’s budget update proposal
The Governor’s midterm budget adjustment proposals include maintaining the increase in primary care provider rates that began last year costing…
CT’s Medicaid success: Access and quality are up, costs are down
Since 2012, when CT’s Medicaid program shifted from a capitated payment model to a self-insured model based on care coordination,…
Exchange enrollment growing, but how many were uninsured?
A CT Mirror report looking underneath AccessHealthCT’s enrollment numbers finds that we don’t know how many of the 94,000 people…
CT Health reform dashboard – progress up to 28.7%
As the ACA’s individual mandate, exchange coverage and dozens of other provisions became effective last month, CT has only achieved…