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Advocates document concerns with PCMH+ implementation
The Medicaid Study Group, a coalition of independent consumer advocates, have published an update on CT Medicaid’s new payment reform…
CBO estimates that 22 million more Americans will become uninsured by 2026 under the Senate’s ACA replacement proposal
Thursday morning Senate leaders published their plan to replace the Affordable Care Act and modified it earlier today. The…
New to the Book Club — Economic Ideas You Should Forget
The title alone pulls you in – Economic Ideas You Should Forget. Ideas and theories that everyone believes but aren’t…
Blumenthal holding second emergency field hearing on ACA repeal proposals
Senator Blumenthalhas scheduled an emergency field hearing in New Haven Friday to hear the public’s thoughts on federal proposals to…
Report estimates AHCA would cut $5.9 billion in Medicaid funds to CT
Connecticut would lose $5.9 billion in Medicaid funding from 2019 to 2028 under the American Health Care Act passed by…
New data finds CT leads nation in lowering Medicaid costs
New data from CMS actuaries finds that Medicaid per capita health care spending dropped 5.7% from 2010 to 2014, better…
Medicaid update – administrative conversion drives up call wait times
Friday’s Medicaid oversight council meeting focused on DSS’s conversion to ImpactCT, a new IT system to handle eligibility and enrollment.…
CT insurers’ 2018 rate requests as much as 52% increase — public hearing, comment
As part of the health insurance rate review process, CT’s Insurance Department will hold a public hearing June 14th in…
June CT Health Reform Dashboard – concerns remain but some hope for drug costs
CT’s June Health Reform Dashboard remains unsettled. Mistrust remains at the core of problems in CT. The new state HIT…