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Consultants hired to study options for CT to improve value in health care purchasing
Bailit Health has been hired to work with the Healthcare Cabinet for a study to identify successful practices in other…
How CT can save $1 billion
Per person costs in CT’s Medicaid program fell, actually went down, by 5.9% last year. If the rest of CT’s…
A little perspective — health care is expensive, but less than housing or transportation
In 2013 Americans of all ages devoted more of total household spending to housing and transportation than health care, according…
Medicaid still saving $ hundreds of millions
Four years after shifting from managed care organizations to a care-management focused program, CT’s Medicaid program continues providing significant relief…
January web quiz: CT’s health system performance
Test your knowledge about the performance of CT health system. Take the January CT Health Policy Webquiz.
Only 15% of CT Medicaid smokers are getting medications to help quit
An article in this month’s Health Affairs estimates that only 15% of CT’s 102,000 Medicaid adults who smoke are getting…
CT teen birthrate down 11% last year
New data on births rates from the CDC finds that last year, as in 2013, CT had the third lowest…
CT health reform progress meter not changed much
This month’s CT health reform progress meter ticked down very slightly this month, continuing its hover around the same 25%…
Hartford Business Journal 2016 economic outlook including health care
The Hartford Business Journal is looking ahead to next year for trends, predictions and stories to watch in CT’s economy.…