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Courant Op-Ed: Plan to ‘Fix’ State Medicaid Program Flawed
From Saturday’s Hartford Courant, “These are lean times and we need our government to be smart about where it puts…
FDA committee tackles how to assess drugs that target serious infections but affect small populations
Last week’s meeting of the FDA’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee was unusual. We didn’t address the merits of a single…
CTNJ: CT health policy has trust issues
An OP-ED today in CT News Junkie describes the sorry level of mistrust in CT health policymaking. “Mistrust is pervasive…
Study raises concerns about ACO “savings” and gaming the system
A new study published in Health Affairs raises doubts about the effectiveness of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to both…
Mistrust in Connecticut health policymaking – Thoughtleaders, public weigh in on the problem and propose solutions
Connecticut health policymaking has trust issues. This year Connecticut health thoughtleaders rated trust among stakeholders at only 26 out of…
April CT Health Reform Dashboard – temporary relief at federal level but troubling payment model returns (again and again and again)
CT’s April Health Reform Dashboard is somewhat more settled than last month – but that’s not a good thing. Efforts…
Doctor compensation continues to grow, Northeastern physicians about in the middle, Canadians higher
US physicians average $294 thousand in compensation this year, up from $206K in 2011 according to Medscape’s 2017 Physician Compensation…
Large majority of CT hospitals and health systems making money
Last year, 23 of CT’s 28 hospitalsand half the 20 health systems made money last year. Collectively, CT’s 28 hospitals’…
Analysts predict CT would lose $7 billion under the American Health Care Act
A new analysis by the Urban Institute finds that per capita caps on federal Medicaid spending under the American Health…