2+ hour, 35+ min ago   (388+ words) After Connecticut business groups opened the year by calling for greater scrutiny of state-mandated health insurance benefits, a subsequent legislative report found that lawmakers enacted laws creating or changing mandates involving 18 types of benefits over an 11-year period. And the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (815+ words) Connecticut officials are gearing up for sweeping changes to Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that provides insurance coverage for low-income Americans. Medicaid, known as HUSKY in Connecticut, covers around 939,000 residents, or a quarter of the state’s population. Come January, federal…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1521+ words) For years, Connecticut lawmakers and elected officials have been laboring to understand — and curtail — rapidly rising healthcare costs. They first gathered data to measure annual growth in healthcare spending and established benchmark growth rates. The intent was for insurers and…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (195+ words) The state Insurance Department on Tuesday said it will hold a hybrid public informational meeting next month on the 2027 rate requests submitted by health insurers. In June, it was disclosed that Connecticut health insurers are seeking double-digit premium increases for…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (197+ words) David joined Hartford Business Journal as senior staff writer in January 2024; his beats include health care, bioscience and the state legislature. A UConn graduate, his long career in journalism included serving as a reporter and/or editor with the New…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (712+ words) More than 22,000 people enrolled in Affordable Care Act health plans in Connecticut in 2026 lost coverage in the first six months of the year after failing to make their premium payments — a 75% increase over the same period last year, according to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1277+ words) Last week’s announcement that Yale New Haven Health System was ousting and immediately replacing chief executive officer Chris O’Connor came as a shock to many in the state’s healthcare sector. “It was a surprise to me, for sure,” said state…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (129+ words) Hartford Business Journal 🔒Medicaid costs surged in 2024. It’s still CT’s cheapest insurance Connecticut’s Medicaid spending per enrollee jumped 14% between 2023 and 2024, nearly doubling the per-person cost growth of health expenses in the state overall, according to an April 2026 report by the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1408+ words) With about 110,000 poor adults at risk of losing Medicaid coverage under new federal work rules this January, officials are scrambling to avert a swell in uninsured patients forced to seek care through hospital emergency departments. And while maintaining preventative care…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (170+ words) By Blake Spina, Partner and Healthcare Practice Co-Leader, Citrin Cooperman Accounting firms, meanwhile, focus on making the concierge model financially viable. Membership-based practices generate predictable revenue, but that revenue must be accounted for correctly. Membership fees are often treated as…...