CT’s APCD chooses data contractor, concerns remain
The Hartford Business Journal is reporting that CT’s developing all-payer claims database (APCD), run by AccessHealthCT, has chosen Onpoint Health…
Fact checking CT’s uninsured numbers since the ACA
An article in today’s CT Mirror focuses on a question bouncing around CT health policy circles – what impact has…
Medicaid Council update
The agenda for last week’s Medicaid Council meeting was very full. We reviewed DSS’s latest ConneCT Dashboard. More clients are…
CTNJ op-ed: Privacy and trust concerns at CT’s APCD
Advocates are raising concerns about the privacy of sensitive medical records at Access Health Analytics, our state’s all-payer claims database…
Medicaid update
Yesterday’s Medicaid Council focused on improving enrollment and quality performance in the program. From the new ConneCT Dashboard we learned…
Exchange enrollment growing, but how many were uninsured?
A CT Mirror report looking underneath AccessHealthCT’s enrollment numbers finds that we don’t know how many of the 94,000 people…
CEPAC meeting on dense breast tissue screening
This month’s CEPACmeeting focused on that status of comparative effectiveness research on supplemental cancer screening for women with dense breast…
APCD Roundtable – lessons for CT
Yesterday’s CT Health Policy Roundtable on All-Payer Claims Databases yielded many lessons for CT from other states and organizations.…
Medicaid performance dashboard unveiled; marked improvement with switch from HUSKY HMOs
At Friday’s Medicaid Council meeting, DSS described their new ASO accountability dashboard with performance measures for the program. From…