New Cost Cap industry-driven committee gets going

By Ellen Andrews | January 6, 2022

Members of the Office of Health Strategy’s (OHS) latest committee to drive down the growth in Connecticut’s healthcare spending moved…

FAQs on OHS’s Primary Care Roadmap

By Ellen Andrews | January 3, 2022

Download the FAQs here Connecticut’s Office of Health Strategy has developed a Primary Care Roadmap to support primary care in…

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By Ellen Andrews | December 14, 2021

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Health equity state scorecard finds CT compares well, but needs improvement

By Ellen Andrews | December 13, 2021

Connecticut ranks fifth best among states on overall health equity according to the Commonwealth Fund’s latest state scorecard, but every…

ICER report on fair access to drugs prompts six insurers to change coverage policies

By Ellen Andrews | December 1, 2021

A powerful new scorecard from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) assessing 15 of the largest US formularies…

Last year unjustified price increases for nine drugs cost US healthcare $1.67 billion, Humira accounted for $1.4 billion

By Ellen Andrews | November 16, 2021

According to this year’s report, last year the US health system spent an extra $1.67 billion on price increases for…

CT ranks 15th among states in healthcare affordability, but that’s not saying much

By Ellen Andrews | November 2, 2021

Connecticut has implemented many policies to make healthcare affordable; unfortunately, they aren’t working. According to Altarum’s new Healthcare Affordability State…

CT Healthcare employment is slowly rebounding, except for nursing homes

By Ellen Andrews | October 25, 2021

Download the report Like other Connecticut workers, healthcare employment was hit hard by the pandemic in March 2020, according to…

Sign on letter voices deep concerns with primary care capitation

By Ellen Andrews | October 22, 2021

Today twenty-five independent advocates and providers signed a letter to the Office of Health Strategy opposing capitation of primary care…

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