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Waterbury Hospital for-profit takeover community forum tonight
A community forum on Vanguard/Tenet’s planned takeover of Waterbury Hospital will be tonight at 7pm at St. John’s Episcopal…
SIM and Cabinet meeting update
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
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
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
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
Aetna has withdrawn their application to participate in Access Health CT, our state’s health insurance exchange.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
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%
CT policymakers have completed 23.1% of the tasks necessary for health reform, making up for last month’s drop. Most…
SIM update
The SIM steering committee reviewed final recommendations from their work groups yesterday. The SIM project is developing payment and…