Connecticut news and information

Doctors, patients and Medicare advocates scrambled this week to determine how they are affected by UnitedHealthcare's decision to eliminate thousands of doctors from its physician network for Medicare Advantage next year.
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Thousands of doctors in Connecticut are being dropped from UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage plans next year. A UnitedHealthcare spokesman confirmed the cuts but said he did not have an exact number of doctors affected.
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A federal judge has tossed out a long-running class-action lawsuit that claimed the federal government is illegally placing financial burdens on Medicare patients who are hospitalized as outpatients under observation care.
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On the heels of the Institute of Medicine calling U.S. cancer care “increasingly chaotic and costly,” Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is starting an alliance of community cancer providers. It named Hartford HealthCare, a five-hospital system in Connecticut, as the...
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At least 15 people may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from neurosurgery instruments used on a patient suspected to have died from the rare brain disorder at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., said that five patients who underwent...
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Connecticut doctors are signing up on a daily basis to be certified for prescribing medical marijuana under the state's new law. Patients are signing up too, but they may have to investigate a little to find a doctor because the state is not planning to release its list of marijuana-certified...
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The Federal Trade Commission blasted a physician-supported Connecticut bill that would create “cooperative arrangements” between healthcare providers that, if approved by the state attorney general, would not be subject to certain antitrust laws.
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Connecticut hospitals would win big under the CMS' latest update of its controversial rural-floor policy.
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As states and the federal government work feverishly toward having health insurance exchanges ready for enrollment by Oct. 1, much of the discussion has focused on technology readiness, guidance from the CMS and competition from insurers. But one crucial element not brought up as often but still...
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Connecticut hospitals would win big under the CMS' latest update of its controversial rural-floor policy. The latest agency calculations project hospitals in the state will see a $75 million boost in fiscal 2014, compared to $16.7 million in the current fiscal year.
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