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CT Health Reform Dashboard – CT up to 13.8%

By Ellen Andrews | June 3, 2012

CT has jumped ahead in progress in health reform to 13.8% of the tasks completed, according to the June CT…

HITE CT considering scaling back to secure messaging, easing privacy concerns

By Ellen Andrews | May 31, 2012

CT’s quasi-public entity charged with building a health information exchange for the state is considering scaling back from an overly…

Comments on dual eligible proposal center on behavioral health co-lead

By Ellen Andrews | May 27, 2012

Comments at Friday’s Complex Care Committee meeting focused on the late addition of requiring a behavioral health co-lead to DSS’s…

CT Health Insurance Exchange unknown in CT

By Ellen Andrews | May 22, 2012

The most important job of the CT Health Insurance Exchange is educating the public and gaining their trust. Read Kevin…

Insurance Exchange Board meeting notes

By Ellen Andrews | May 21, 2012

The CT Health Insurance Exchange Board met last week – not much happened. Small business owner, Kevin Galvin, and a…

CT drops back to a C on health reform

By Ellen Andrews | May 18, 2012

This month Connecticut health care thought leaders gave our state a C on health reform, erasing the C+ bump in…

Fascinating presentation at Health Care Cabinet

By Ellen Andrews | May 16, 2012

Today’s Cabinet meeting featured a presentation by Capitol District Physicians Health Plan, an Albany-based, nonprofit, physician-led health plan, that is…

Medicare/Medicaid dual eligible reform plan update

By Ellen Andrews | May 14, 2012

On Friday, the Medicaid Council passed the recommendations of the Complex Care Subcommittee on DSS’s application for an integrated care…

Exchange fix bill dies in Senate

By Ellen Andrews | May 10, 2012

The bill to bring the CT Health Insurance Exchange into compliance with federal regulations died on the Senate calendar last…