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Next Tuesday CT will host — Health Insurance Exchanges: How Connecticut Can Benefit — a panel of national and state experts sponsored by the Council of State Governments/Eastern Region. The panel will describe what is happening in leading exchange states, federal guidance and expectations, and where CT is currently. Speakers include Dave Chandra, Senior Policy…

Tomorrow the Insurance and Real Estate Committee will hold a public hearing on SB-957, An Act Establishing a Health Insurance Advisory Council. The bill would create a public, transparent Council to advise the state on regulating insurance, promoting affordable coverage, network adequacy, and implementing the important consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act. Council members…

The Affordable Care Act has a lot of moving parts – both opportunities and responsibilities – for consumers and it can be very confusing. Part of the rollout of the Affordable Care Act includes recruiting In-Person Assisters to help people who are uninsured get insurance.
Organizers expect that hundreds of IPAs will be housed in community-based…

The CT Health Insurance Exchange, renamed Access Health CT, is planning more Healthy Chat forums. The events are designed to answer questions about the exchange and the states plans for health reform. Events will be held in Norwich, Willimantic, Manchester, Meriden, Torrington, Danbury and Enfield from Feb. 19th through March 19th in the evenings. For…

Submit your idea to achieve health justice for every CT residents to the Health Justice Challenge and you may win $10,000 to implement it. The Challenge, project of Health Justice CT, is a competition open to individuals and organizations to generate solutions to health disparities in CT. The deadline has been extended to next Friday,…

The legislature’s Insurance and Real Estate Committee has raised SB-596, An Act Concerning the Duties of the CT Health Insurance Exchange, and will hold a public hearing on the bill Thursday. SB-596 requires the CT Health Insurance Exchange to actively purchase health coverage for the estimated one in ten state residents who will purchase health…

Stakeholders had only six days to comment on the 40 page health plan solicitation from the CT Health Insurance Exchange – and it’s already over. Stakeholders in CA and MD had months to comment, with multiple drafts, meetings and opportunities to craft better proposals. The CT Health Policy Project’s initial comments centered on active purchasing,…

Kevin Galvin of Small Business for Healthy CT reflects on the recent CT Health Insurance Exchange’s Consumer Committee meeting. A lack of consumers on the consumer committee explains a lot.

Patient centered medical homes offer exciting potential to both improve the quality of care and control costs. But this transformation of care delivery will require new skills and roles in CT’s health care workforce. A conference to explore these issues and CT’s readiness for delivery reform will be held October 23rd from 8am to 3pm…

The CT Health Policy Project’s 2012 candidate briefing book on CT’s health is posted. This year’s book includes briefs on thirteen timely issues including health care cost drivers, CT’s health insurance exchange and CT & national health reform. The briefing book is part of www.cthealthbook.org our resource library on health care issues and solutions facing…