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SIM and Cabinet meeting update

By Ellen Andrews | August 14, 2013

  Yesterday’s Health Care Cabinet meeting wasn’t very enlightening. The SIM report on consumer outreach was pretty much as expected.…

For-profit Vanguard and Yale-New Haven set to takeover ECHN

By Ellen Andrews | August 9, 2013

  Eastern CT Health Network, including Rockville and Manchester Hospitals and their networks, has entered an agreement with for-profit Tennessee-based…

Exchange premiums up from this year, lots of variation

By Ellen Andrews | August 8, 2013

  Our analysis of the recently announced 2014 Access Health CT standard plan premiums finds that for five typical CT households…

CT moves up to 13th worst in hospital Medicare readmission penalties

By Ellen Andrews | August 7, 2013

  Twenty four CT hospitals will face Medicare penalties because of readmission rates averaging 0.43% of Medicare revenues. In an…

Aetna leaves CT insurance exchange

By Ellen Andrews | August 5, 2013

  Aetna has withdrawn their application to participate in Access Health CT, our state’s health insurance exchange. Aetna’s proposal was…

August CT Health Policy Webquiz: CT health insurance base premiums

By Ellen Andrews | August 2, 2013

  Test your knowledge of base health insurance premiums in Connecticut for this year. Take the August CT Health Policy…

CT Health Reform Progress Meter moves up to 23.1%

By Ellen Andrews | August 1, 2013

  CT policymakers have completed 23.1% of the tasks necessary for health reform, making up for last month’s drop. Most…

SIM update

By Ellen Andrews | July 30, 2013

  The SIM steering committee reviewed final recommendations from their work groups yesterday. The SIM project is developing payment and…

Access Health CT rates up sharply, CID review and competition helped

By Ellen Andrews | July 30, 2013

Today’s CT Health Insurance Exchange/Access Health CT board meeting included a report from Wakely actuaries hired by the exchange to…