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Hospital community benefits reports out
The Office of Health Care Advocate has released their community benefits report on what hospitals are providing to residents of…
New London getting a health needs assessment
Over the next three years, the Ledge Light Health District will be assessing conditions in the New London area that…
Charter Oak celebrates first anniversary
Friday, Governor Rell announced that her Charter Oak Health Plan has enrolled 10,257 previously uninsured CT residents as of the…
Prescription assistance bus in CT
The “Help is Here” bus travelling across the country offering help applying for drug company assistance programs is in CT…
CT health insurance premiums grew 7 times faster than our incomes since 2000
From 2000 to this year, family premiums rose 7.4 times faster than median earnings in Connecticut according to a new…
Extreme out-of-network charges for CT health care services
A new survey of out-of-network physician claims finds some extremely high examples of over charging in CT. The highest example…
Value-based purchasing and VT health care reform updates
Our second day of health panels at last week’s CSG/ERC annual meeting in Burlington VT started with a set of…
Farm to School panel at CSG/ERC meeting
This week I am in beautiful Burlington VT, on the shores of Lake Champlain, at the Council of State Governments/Eastern…
Comment on eHealth exchange privacy policies
eHealthConnecticut has created a portal to collect public comment on evolving privacy and security policies for CT’s health information exchange.…