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…

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…

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…

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…

CEPAC meeting on dense breast tissue screening

By Ellen Andrews | December 23, 2013

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

By Ellen Andrews | October 25, 2013

  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

By Ellen Andrews | October 15, 2013

  At Friday’s Medicaid Council meeting, DSS described their new ASO accountability dashboard with performance measures for the program. From…

CT Health Policy Roundtable: CT’s APCD

By Ellen Andrews | September 21, 2013

Join national and state experts for a Roundtable to learn more about the potential for Connecticut’s new All-Payer Claims Database…

Comments on CT’s APCD policies and procedures

By Ellen Andrews | September 16, 2013

  In support of the enormous potential to promote and guide sensible health planning in CT, consumer advocates, the CT…

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