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Blue Cross Blue Shield settlement checks are arriving in Connecticut
8+ hour, 55+ min ago (12+ words) CT Insider...
Connecticut hospitals get funding boost as Medicaid cuts loom
3+ week, 4+ day ago (363+ words) The front entrance of Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven. "At its core, the model ensures hospital taxes function as an effective financing tool to support Medicaid and reinvest in care, delivering critical resources back to patients and communities,…...
UConn Health, Cigna ink deal as pressures mount in healthcare
3+ week, 6+ day ago (376+ words) UConn Health CEO Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, center, at a Certificate of Need hearing hosted by the Office of Health Strategy in Hartford on December 19, 2025. A printout of UConn Health's 774-page application to take over Waterbury Health is in front. Experts…...
Connecti Care to leave Manchester insurance office after lease ends in November
4+ week, 16+ hour ago (284+ words) The owner of the building at 1487 Pleasant Valley Road in Manchester is seeking a new tenant after Connecti Care chose not to renew its lease. MANCHESTER " Insurance company Connecti Care will leave its Pleasant Valley Road location in November, according…...
Opinion: CT should mandate insurance coverage of'scalp cooling. 'Losing a piece of their identity"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (124+ words) Here are the all-decade first and second boys basketball'teams from the decade of the 2010s. A patient wears a scalp cooling device. Requiring insurance coverage for FDA'approved scalp cooling treatments would remove a significant barrier, expand access to compassionate care, and…...
UConn Health set to strike deals with Day Kimball, Bristol to expand its new hospital network statewide
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (650+ words) Day Kimball Health CEO Kyle Kramer praised UConn Health's proposed expansion plan at an event at Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam on November 18, 2025." At least one financially troubled hospital is set to announce a formal agreement to join the new…...
Lamont offers sweet deal to CT small businesses: Health insurance tax credit
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (550+ words) Gov. Ned Lamont joins Fascia's Chocolates President Carmen Romeo, at left, and Waterbury Mayor Paul Pernerewski, right, at the Waterbury candy factory on April 15, 2025, as a worker bags chocolate nonpareils. Whether they're making sea-salt caramels, aerospace parts or empanadas, Connecticut's…...
Connecticut weighs Medicaid rate hikes amid concerns over cuts in health care services
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (1201+ words) Gov. Ned Lamont gives his State of the State address Feb. 4 during opening day of the 2026 legislative session in Hartford. Kathlene Gerrity said it feels like she's stuck in a time loop each time she appears before state lawmakers to…...
Will private equity weaken Connecticut's health care, or save it? Quinnipiac experts debate impact of investors on hospitals, doctor's offices
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (755+ words) State Sen. Saud Anwar (D. South Windsor) speaks at a forum on private equity in health care at Quinnipiac University on March 26, 2026." Chad Ehrenkranz, a partner at Sidley Austin, and Associate Attorney General Nicole Demers"at a forum on private equity…...