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Legal aid suing over Medicaid delays
Yesterday New Haven Legal Assistance Association filed a federal class action lawsuit against DSS over extreme delays in processing Medicaid…
Upcoming health policy meetings
CT’s health policy community is making up for the holiday lull in meetings. Next week’s meetings include: Patrick Hollander, former…
Sen. Blumenthal’s survey finds hospital drug shortages harming care
Yesterday, Sen. Blumenthal released a survey documenting serious drug shortages at CT hospitals. The number of drug shortages grew by…
CT consumers can’t get prices for health care; CT hospital costs for the same treatment vary widely
A pair of articles from CT Health I-Team highlights problems with CT’s health care market. Unlike in other states, CT…
Health IT privacy meeting
The first meeting of the HITE-CT privacy committee will be January 11th from 12:30 to 2pm at the LOB. This…
Overtreatment webinar slides and video posted
Slides and video from Rosemary Gibson’s webinar on What States Can Do About Health Care Overuse are posted. Rosemary Gibson…
CER Webinars
Join us for two upcoming webinars on similar themes. The first is next Wednesday, December 28th at 10am with Rosemary…
Electronic health record breaches up 32% this year over last
As more patient records move to electronic formats, the number of breaches, or losses, of that information is also up…
CT Insurance Exchange News
New on the CT Exchange Watch Blog – www.ctexchangewatch.org – Mercer finishes report to exchange board, more press and more…