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Medicaid Managed Care/PCCM update

By Ellen Andrews | January 8, 2010

Today’s Medicaid Managed Care Council included an update on PCCM given the expansion to New Haven and Hartford January 1st.…

New in the Book Club: The Healing of America

By Ellen Andrews | January 7, 2010

I usually avoid reading about other countries’ health systems; it’s depressing how backward America is about health care. It is…

January web quiz – national health reform and Connecticut

By Ellen Andrews | January 6, 2010

Test your knowledge of how national health reforms will help Connecticut. Take the January CT Health Policy Web Quiz.

Managed care proposal for seniors and people with disabilities

By Ellen Andrews | January 5, 2010

DSS has issued an RFQ to provide managed care to 26,000 Medicaid only recipients who are Aged, Blind or Disabled.…

New laws take effect; New Haven anti-tobacco crusader/educator just gets it done

By Ellen Andrews | January 4, 2010

Some new state laws took effect Friday including a few related to health – coverage of autism, prohibiting payment for…

My favorite end of the year list

By Ellen Andrews | December 31, 2009

Time’s Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2009 includes epigenetics, water on the moon, and gene therapy curing color blindness. Some…

The health benefits of coffee

By Ellen Andrews | December 30, 2009

This is one less resolution we need to make for Friday – coffee is good for you, from the Wall…

How do shared doctor visits work?

By Ellen Andrews | December 29, 2009

Shared medical appointments have been described as an important innovation to improve access to better quality care, especially for chronically…

Judge reinstates health coverage for 4,800 legal immigrants in CT

By Ellen Andrews | December 22, 2009

Late Friday, Hartford judge Grant Miller overruled Governor Rell’s action to cut off HUSKY for CT legal immigrant adults. Governor…