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CSG/ERC annual meeting highlights

By Ellen Andrews | December 23, 2013

This year’s CSG/ERC annual meeting in Puerto Rico this month included several health panels and meetings. The first was an…

CEPAC meeting on dense breast tissue screening

By Ellen Andrews | December 23, 2013

This month’s CEPACmeeting focused on that status of comparative effectiveness research on supplemental cancer screening for women with dense breast…

SIM update

By Ellen Andrews | December 20, 2013

SIM leaders released their financial analysis, response to public comments, and revised vision statement at the last meeting. We will…

SIM public comments: diverse and mostly critical

By Ellen Andrews | December 12, 2013

Last month Connecticut’s State Innovation Model (SIM) planning group, working for most of the year, solicited public comment for the…

Safety net hospitals expect to see more uninsured undocumented immigrants

By Ellen Andrews | December 11, 2013

CT hospitals are expecting a growing burden of uncompensated care for undocumented immigrants next year, according to C-HIT. Undocumented immigrants…

CT Health Reform Progress Meter moves up to 28.3%

By Ellen Andrews | December 3, 2013

CT policymakers have completed 28.3% of the tasks necessary for health reform, up slightly from November. Most tasks on the…

December CT Health Policy Webquiz – CT health insurers’ performance

By Ellen Andrews | December 2, 2013

Test your knowledge of CT health insurer performance. Take the December CT Health Policy Webquiz.

CT Mirror Obamacare Maitre d’ – everything you wanted to know

By Ellen Andrews | December 1, 2013

CT Mirror has created a set of tools to guide the confused through Obamacare’s maze. Obamacare Maitre d’ steps you…

SIM plan comments focus on protecting consumers

By Ellen Andrews | November 25, 2013

CT’s SIM draft plan to reform health care for at least 80% of state residents in five years is out…