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April web quiz – Alzheimer’s disease in CT

By Ellen Andrews | April 3, 2012

Test your knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease in CT. Take the April CT Health Policy Webquiz.

No increase in state employee health plan costs

By Ellen Andrews | April 2, 2012

The State Comptroller announced Thursday that premiums for the state employees’ medical, pharmacy and dental plans will not increase next…

April CT Health Reform Dashboard — 10.8% progress to date

By Ellen Andrews | March 30, 2012

This month again CT is making progress toward health reform. This month we are 10.8% of the way toward health…

Exchange advisory committees begin work

By Ellen Andrews | March 26, 2012

Last week the four CT Health Insurance Exchange advisory committees held their first meeting jointly. The meeting included a very…

Experience to inform health insurance exchange outreach

By Ellen Andrews | March 21, 2012

CT has a long and varied history of outreach programs; some worked very well and some were less successful. There…

HIT privacy bill heard in Public Health Committee

By Ellen Andrews | March 20, 2012

An important bill, SB 368, had a public hearing Friday in the Public Health Committee. The bill would require HITE…

Insurance Exchange meeting allows limited public comment

By Ellen Andrews | March 15, 2012

Partially responding to widespread calls to respect consumer voices, the CT Health Insurance Exchange Board allowed 12 minutes of public…

Dual eligible payment reform update

By Ellen Andrews | March 13, 2012

Advocates have raised concerns about DSS’ plans to re-engineer CT’s Medicaid pilot program for dual eligibles, people eligible for both…

CT gets a C for health reform

By Ellen Andrews | March 8, 2012

In a new survey, Connecticut health care thought leaders give our state a C on health reform. The state received…