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St. Raph’s defaults on $88 m in debt; imbalance in state funding blamed

By Ellen Andrews | February 12, 2009

New Haven’s Hospital of St. Raphael is facing a $35.5m budget hole and cannot make payments on $88 million of…

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More companies conducting dependent coverage eligibility audits

By Ellen Andrews | February 11, 2009

Until recently most companies have just taken an employee’s word that the people they list for coverage under their family…

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CT insurers push plan for universal health care; Rests on individual mandate

By Ellen Andrews | February 10, 2009

According to today’s Hartford Courant, CT’s insurance industry is promoting a plan to cover everyone in the state. The industry…

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Charter Oak calls to the Consumer Helpline

By Ellen Andrews | February 10, 2009

I have been receiving a lot of calls on our Consumer Helpline (1-888-873-4585) from people having trouble signing up for…

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Medicaid Managed Care Council/PCCM update

By Ellen Andrews | February 9, 2009

At Friday’s Council meeting DSS announced that not only did they default HUSKY families in Anthem and traditional Medicaid to…

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Ten Ways to Save Money and Improve Health Care Quality

By Ellen Andrews | February 7, 2009

For Ten Ways to Save Money that Improve Quality in CT’s Health Care – so we don’t have to cut…

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Governor releases her budget proposal

By Ellen Andrews | February 4, 2009

As promised, the Governor’s state budget proposal for the next two years released today includes painful cuts. Overall, Medicaid would…

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Primary Care Authority meeting

By Ellen Andrews | February 4, 2009

At today’s meeting, the Primary Care Authority accepted UConn’s report *check link * assessing CT’s primary care workforce capacity. The…

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Health Policy Basics

By Ellen Andrews | February 3, 2009

We are fortunate at the CT Health Policy Project to have over a dozen work study students, interns, and volunteers…

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