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How CT can save $162 million in healthcare waste
By Ellen Andrews |
An analysis of Connecticut’s commercial insurance markets finds we spent $9.45 per person per month on wasteful low-value care in ...
Read More Most CT physicians take Medicare patients, but less than US average; implications for payment reform
By Ellen Andrews |
At 84%, the large majority of physicians in Connecticut take new Medicare patients according to a new analysis by the ...
Read More CTNJ Op-Ed — Policymakers did little to lower healthcare costs this session
By Ellen Andrews |
Healthcare costs featured prominently in CT News Junkie’s 2020 candidates’ survey. It’s very likely that candidates will hear the same ...
Read More Book Club: Think Again
By Ellen Andrews |
You have to read Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant. We all think ...
Read More CT hospital ownership change rate among highest in US
By Ellen Andrews |
Over 10% of hospitals in Connecticut changed ownership between 2016 and 2021, according to a federal report using new CMS ...
Read More DSS’s new patient survey has little to say
By Ellen Andrews |
Photo by Lukas DSS’s consultants reported on the results from their new patient experience/satisfaction survey for PCMH Plus members at ...
Read More Good News — Senate passed SB-416 to lower healthcare prices
By Ellen Andrews |
On Wednesday, the Senate voted 29 to 4 to pass SB-416, An Act Promoting Competition in Contracts Between Health Carriers ...
Read More Book Club: The Long Fix
By Ellen Andrews |
I’ve been avoiding reading The Long Fix: Solving America’s Health Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone by Vivian Lee. ...
Read More CTNJ: Fact Check Shows That Raising Primary Care Spending Doesn’t Lower Total Healthcare Costs
By Ellen Andrews |
The Office of Health Strategy and their consultants have asserted that it is critical to double spending on primary care ...
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