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Analysis: Medicare is Negotiating Drug Prices — Why it Matters
This is historic. Pharma has been fighting Medicare drug price negotiation for decades because it’s the start of reining in…
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Book Club: Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence: Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor
It was difficult to read Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence by Colleen Grogan and Michael Gusmano; thankfully it is short. It…
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ICER seeking nominations for New England evidence review council
The Institute for Economic and Clinical Review (ICER) is seeking nominations for new members to the New England Comparative Effectiveness…
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CT health systems ranked poorly by their nurses
Connecticut health systems underperform in an analysis of nurses’ satisfaction with their employers by MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Only…
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ICER fair access report finds improvements but problems with transparency
ICER’s third annual Barriers to Fair Access report found that most prescription drug coverage policies met fair rules for patient…
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Book Club: We’ve Got You Covered
I wasn’t looking forward to reading yet another book promoting yet another idea to solve America’s broken healthcare system. But…
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Op-Ed: The Charts That Scare Health Insurance Watchdogs
Self-insured small group plans sound innocuous but they’re not – and they are growing quickly. The plans save money for…
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Speaker Series #4 — Healthcare for people with developmental disabilities — Reports from other states
Following up on the first webinars on healthcare access for people with developmental disabilities, the fourth webinar in the Fall…
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CT commercial insurance enrollment down 5%; several possible explanations
Download the report Last year, total enrollment in Connecticut’s commercial managed care plans was 1,666,972. That was down by 85,019…
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