CT health systems ranked poorly by their nurses

By Ellen Andrews | November 7, 2023

Connecticut health systems underperform in an analysis of nurses’ satisfaction with their employers by MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Only…

ICER fair access report finds improvements but problems with transparency

By Ellen Andrews | November 4, 2023

ICER’s third annual Barriers to Fair Access report found that most prescription drug coverage policies met fair rules for patient…

Book Club: We’ve Got You Covered

By Ellen Andrews | November 1, 2023

I wasn’t looking forward to reading yet another book promoting yet another idea to solve America’s broken healthcare system. But…

Op-Ed: The Charts That Scare Health Insurance Watchdogs

By Ellen Andrews | October 26, 2023

Self-insured small group plans sound innocuous but they’re not – and they are growing quickly. The plans save money for…

CT commercial insurance enrollment down 5%; several possible explanations

By Ellen Andrews | October 20, 2023

Download the report Last year, total enrollment in Connecticut’s commercial managed care plans was 1,666,972. That was down by 85,019…

CT Medicaid primary care redesign: Payment reform

By Ellen Andrews | October 12, 2023

Download the full report with sources Connecticut Medicaid is considering reforms to primary care delivery and payment. The CT Health…

New data finds CT obesity rates grew by 25% from 2011 to 2022

By Ellen Andrews | October 2, 2023

Download the brief New data from the CDC finds that three in ten Connecticut adults (30.6%) were obese last year,…

Healthcare for CT residents with developmental disabilities speaker series – Webinar #2

By Ellen Andrews | September 25, 2023

Following up on the first webinar  with national experts on healthcare access for people with developmental disabilities, the second webinar…

CT primary care redesign: What the evidence says

By Ellen Andrews | September 12, 2023

Early in 2023, Connecticut’s Department of Social Services (DSS) embarked on an ambitious planning process to make significant changes to…

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