2020 Press Releases

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• 2/23/2020 OHS Announces Healthcare Cost Growth Benchmark Technical Team and Stakeholder Board

  (HARTFORD, CT) – Today, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS) announced the members of the Cost Growth Benchmark Technical Team and the Cost Growth Benchmark Stakeholder Advisory Board, two groups formed to establish Connecticut’s first healthcare cost growth bench as outlined by Governor Ned Lamont’s Executive Order No. 5. The order directs OHS to establish statewide healthcare cost growth and quality benchmarks and a primary care spending target.

• 2/19/2020 OHS: Certificate of Need Guide Will Make the Regulatory Process More Transparent and Easier to Understand

  (HARTFORD, CT) – Today, the Office of Health Strategy released a guidebook to help consumers and healthcare providers better understand the Certificate of Need (CON) process—the state’s regulatory mechanism governing health system mergers and acquisitions; major investments in new equipment or facilities; and changes in healthcare access such as adding or terminating a health service.

• 2/19/2020 OHS Releases CON Guide

• 1/21/2020 Governor Lamont Signs Executive Orders on Reducing Healthcare Costs for Connecticut Residents

  Governor Lamont Signs Executive Orders on Reducing Healthcare Costs for Connecticut Residents Orders Direct State to Establish Healthcare Cost Growth and Quality Benchmarks, and Improve Transparency of Medicaid Costs and Quality