CT’s best healthcare secret — CID’s Consumer Report Card

By Ellen Andrews | November 28, 2022

It may not attract the same enthusiasm as other holidays this time of year, but if you’re shopping for health…

CT hospitals’ charity care varied widely last year, a bit more than US

By Ellen Andrews | November 10, 2022

Last year, uncompensated care at Connecticut’s 27 acute care hospitals averaged 1.8% of total expenses, according to the state’s latest…

Mental health workforce swamped by need, what needs to happen

By Ellen Andrews | November 3, 2022

A few recent reports have raised alarms about whether our healthy system’s mental health capacity can meet the need, and…

CT hospital readmission penalties higher than US, again

By Ellen Andrews | November 1, 2022

Even with an eased formula due to COVID, all but one acute care Connecticut hospital will be penalized by Medicare…

Study finds Americans living in liberal states, like CT, live longer but we can do better

By Ellen Andrews | October 27, 2022

Recently, working-age Americans’ mortality has reversed its historic declines, largely due to lack of progress on heart disease, and rising…

Study finds CT low value care is costly

By Ellen Andrews | October 13, 2022

About two percent of commercially insured Americans, including Medicare Advantage, received low value care costing $3.7 billion between 2009 and…

Analysis: New study finds 1 in 5 households has medical debt that averages $21,687

By Ellen Andrews | October 7, 2022

Having health insurance is no longer the protection it used to be. A pair of new studies shine a bright…

Number of uninsured CT residents continues down despite COVID

By Ellen Andrews | October 3, 2022

Download the report The latest numbers from the US Census on US health coverage last year find that there were…

Book Club: Making Numbers Count

By Ellen Andrews | September 12, 2022

If your job is to communicate policy and make sense of it, you need Making Numbers Count – The Art…

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