Friday’s meeting of MAPOC’s Complex Care Committee focused on problems with DSS’s new Electronic Verification System to ensure accountabili...
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For decades Connecticut has struggled with reforming our broken health care system. In several health policy circles, a lack of trust has be...
Maryland explores state options to control pharmacy costs
Like many states, Maryland is considering state policy options to control rising prescription costs. Tuesday, the state’s Senate Fin...
Unlike most of US, non-medical vaccine opt-outs for children rising in CT
New analysis by the CDC finds that while the percentage of families opting out of school-required vaccines for kindergartners for non-medic...
How Republican plans to replace the ACA could affect you
The Washington Post has published an online tool to predict how four Republican plans to replace Obamacare would affect you and your covera...
Help Connecticut health policymaking with our trust issues – take a quick survey
For decades Connecticut has struggled with reforming our broken health care system. In several health policy circles, a lack of trust has be...
PCMH + evaluation plans – weak review and too late to matter
Wednesday DSS unveiled their initial plans to evaluate PCMH +, the new experimental HUSKY shared savings program that just started January ...
Cabinet begins to tackle prescription costs
CT’s Health Care Cabinet began drilling down into rising prescription drug costs and state options to stem the rise. We heard from Ameet Sa...
Busting Medicaid spending myths
Despite best efforts by legislators, advocates, and state officials, persistent myths remain about the success of Connecticut’s Medicaid pro...
Help Connecticut health policymaking with our trust issues – take a quick survey
For decades Connecticut has struggled with reforming our broken health care system. In several health policy circles, a lack of trust has be...
CT ranks third among states in health this year, up from sixth from last year
This year’s America’s Health Rankings finds that overall Connecticut residents are healthier than all but two other states. We benefit from...
CT hospital Medicare hospital-acquired condition penalties much higher than US average for third year in a row
Next year fourteen of Connecticut’s 31 hospitals will be penalized by Medicare for poor rates of potentially avoidable compli...