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Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace is hosting free in-person health fairs across the state for residents to enroll in the “Covered CT Program”.
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Despite calls from the state’s attorney general and health care advocates to hold a more formal hearing on a proposal to substantially increase rates on 2023 health plans, Connecticut’s Insurance Department will proceed with its usual informational hearing, albeit in a new location.
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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and Healthcare Advocate Ted Doolittle said a public hearing is needed to allow scrutiny of the hikes that average 20% for the individual market and 14% for the group market.
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Funding will help educate people on Long Island about healthy lifestyles, and provide better access to health care during pregnancy and after giving birth.
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Study shows extending health coverage to all undocumented residents in Connecticut would cost 3% of the state’s annual Medicaid budget.
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While New York state regulators have not yet signed off on what kinds of increases health insurance companies will be allowed to charge next year, many of those those insurers are asking for double-digit rate hikes.
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Connecticut State Comptroller Natalie Braswell has chosen Aetna to be the new Medicare Advantage administrator for retired state workers.
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Legislation seeks to curb rising health care costs by making insurer and provider data more transparent.
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Residents whose household income is at or below 150% of the federal poverty level qualify for low- or no-cost health plans on the exchange, known as Access Health CT in Connecticut.
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The state’s health insurance marketplace, Access Health CT, said the $178 million of assistance provided to residents by the federal legislation, passed in 2021, will end if Congress fails to approve an extension beyond 2022.