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CT hospitals more profitable in 2007
The financial status of CT’s acute care hospitals continued to improve last year, according to OHCA’s latest report. Average margins…
Read MoreGood news for CT doctors, United to offer “insurance” that you can buy insurance in the future
CT physicians are getting some relief in their medical malpractice rates, according to today’s Hartford Courant. Most will see no…
Read MoreMore from the Consumer Helpline
I received a phone call on Tuesday from a Communications Officer in the Commissioners Office of the Department of Social…
Read MorePCCM advocates forced to walk out of meeting
Yesterday’s PCCM working group meeting at DSS did not go well. DSS had no agenda for the meeting which started…
Read MoreFrom the consumer helpline
I started working with the CT Health Policy Project a few weeks ago and I’ve been familiarizing myself with the…
Read MoreCharter Oak “pettiness”
To root out the sources of “negativity” about the Governor’s troubled Charter Oak program, on Friday DSS Commissioner Starkowski made…
Read MoreAG, Health Care and Child Advocates call on Governor to separately re-bid HUSKY and Charter Oak contracts
In a press conference today, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, State Health Care Advocate Kevin Lembo, and State Child Advocate Jeanne…
Read MoreGovernor delinks HUSKY from Charter Oak, guts PCCM
Friday afternoon Governor Rell announced that she will reverse two long standing policies that jeopardized health care for over 340,000…
Read MoreCT health plan comparisons
US News and World Reports has published their annual national comparison of HMOs. CT has two commercial HMOs listed in…
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