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Article finds Medicaid managed care offers mixed results
Echoing CT’s experience, researchers writing in the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy found little evidence that states’…
Radiologists’ cuts discussed at Medicaid committee meeting
Friday’s MAPOC Complex Care Committee included a presentation on the cut to radiologists’ rates this last session. Representatives of the…
CEPAC coming to Connecticut – effectiveness of palliative care
The March meeting of CEPAC, New England’s comparative effectiveness council, will be in Hartford on the 31stat the Bushnell. CEPAC…
Health care not immune from gender wage gap, but the size depends on your job
American women workers make 82.5 cents for every dollar men do, according to 2014 data from the US Bureau of…
CT Mirror reports on drop in per person Medicaid spending
Friday the CT Mirror reported on the remarkable falling cost of care for Medicaid members, down 5.9% just last year.…
Health care as economic driver in CT
CT By the Numbers is reporting on the CT Health Council’s campaign to highlight the importance of the health care…
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…