Only 36% of CT physicians have any shared savings arrangements, correcting questionable SIM estimates from 2013 driving expansive policy

By Ellen Andrews | April 15, 2015

UConn’s new SIM survey of CT physicians found that currently only 36% of CT physicians participate in any shared savings…

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Medicaid update – impressive quality dashboard demo

By Ellen Andrews | January 20, 2015

At Friday’s Medicaid Council meeting, DSS demonstrated their upcoming HUSKY Health Data Dashboard. When it goes live the dashboard will…

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Questionable Hartford flu numbers

By Ellen Andrews | January 5, 2015

A fascinating piece from CT by the Numbers digs into why conflicting reports find over 150,000 flu cases in Hartford…

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CT’s APCD chooses data contractor, concerns remain

By Ellen Andrews | November 12, 2014

The Hartford Business Journal is reporting that CT’s developing all-payer claims database (APCD), run by AccessHealthCT, has chosen Onpoint Health…

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Fact checking CT’s uninsured numbers since the ACA

By Ellen Andrews | August 19, 2014

An article in today’s CT Mirror focuses on a question bouncing around CT health policy circles – what impact has…

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Medicaid Council update

By Ellen Andrews | June 16, 2014

The agenda for last week’s Medicaid Council meeting was very full. We reviewed DSS’s latest ConneCT Dashboard. More clients are…

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CTNJ op-ed: Privacy and trust concerns at CT’s APCD

By Ellen Andrews | May 22, 2014

Advocates are raising concerns about the privacy of sensitive medical records at Access Health Analytics, our state’s all-payer claims database…

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Medicaid update

By Ellen Andrews | April 12, 2014

Yesterday’s Medicaid Council focused on improving enrollment and quality performance in the program. From the new ConneCT Dashboard we learned…

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Exchange enrollment growing, but how many were uninsured?

By Ellen Andrews | February 5, 2014

A CT Mirror report looking underneath AccessHealthCT’s enrollment numbers finds that we don’t know how many of the 94,000 people…

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