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• 6/9/2025 Healthcare Benchmark Initiative Proposes Cost Growth and Quality Benchmarks Primary Care Spending Targets for Next Five Years

  Today the Office of Health Strategy (OHS) released a report containing their proposed target values for the next five years of the Healthcare Benchmark Initiative. The report included recommended healthcare cost growth and quality benchmarks as well as primary care spending targets for 2026 – 2030.

• 6/9/2025 Notice for Public Comment – Healthcare Benchmark Initiative Proposed 2026-2030 Cost Growth and Quality Benchmarks, Primary Care Spending Target

  OHS invites the public to provide comments on the proposed measures detailed in the Healthcare Benchmarks Initiative Proposed 2026-2030 Benchmarks and Technical Team Recommendations report and in the Healthcare Benchmark Initiative Proposed Quality Benchmarks document. Written comments must be received by the Office of Health Strategy by June 30, 2025.

• 5/23/2025 Office of Health Strategy Requires Preservation of Current Rockville General Hospital Services, $300,000 Claim Included

  The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy reached an agreed settlement with Prospect ECHN, Manchester Memorial Hospital  and Rockville General Hospital (RGH) requiring preservation of the current services at RGH.

• 5/1/2025 OHS Healthcare Benchmark Notice of Hearing - 1:30 PM

  Pursuant to C.G.S. § 19a-754g, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS) will hold an Informational Public Hearing on the 2026 to 2030 Healthcare Benchmarks June 23, 2025.

• 5/1/2025 OHS Healthcare Benchmark Notice of Hearing - 9 AM

  Pursuant to C.G.S. § 19a-754j, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS) will hold its annual Informational Public Hearing on the Healthcare Benchmark Results June 23, 2025.

• 4/28/2025 Hospital Community Benefit Grows to $2 Billion, Decreases as Share of Total Expenses

  To remain exempt from federal, state and local taxes, nonprofit hospitals must provide goods and services to benefit the community. These goods and services are broadly known as “Hospital Community Benefits.” The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (OHS) publishes an analysis of the community benefit and community-building activities of the state’s nonprofit acute care hospitals annually.

• 4/24/2025 Notice for Public Comment - Hospitals' Community Benefit Summary and Analysis Report FY 2023

  The Office of Health Strategy (OHS) invites the public to provide comments on the Community Benefit Summary and Analysis Report.

• 4/8/2025 Office of Health Strategy, Nuvance Health and Northwell Health Reach Agreed Settlement for Hospital Affiliation

  Under the agreement, ownership of Danbury, (including the New Milford campus), Norwalk and Sharon Hospitals will be transferred to Northwell Health, a 21-hospital non-profit integrated care delivery system in New York.

• 4/3/2025 Benchmark Reports Show Connecticut Healthcare Cost Growth Leaves Consumers Behind

  The Connecticut Healthcare Benchmark Initiative issued its latest findings today based on performance year 2023 data. The reports show that while healthcare quality remains steady for the most part, cost growth is leaving consumers behind.

• 3/26/2025 United Way’s Tanya Barrett and Trinity Health’s Dan Keenan See Opportunity for Healthcare System Changes with Connecticut AHEAD

  Tanya Barrett, MS, LPC, NCC, senior vice president at United Way of Connecticut’s 211 division, and Dan Keenan, JD regional vice president of advocacy and government relations for Trinity Health of New England, newly appointed co-chairs of the Connecticut AHEAD Advisory Committee, will help policymakers and healthcare providers design and implement new approaches to deliver and fund high quality health services and reduce disparities in health outcomes.

• 3/24/2025 Connecticut Office of Health Strategy to Host Stafford Community Forum on Grants Supporting Maternal and Infant Health

  Connecticut’s Office of Health Strategy (OHS) will host a community forum to engage the public in identifying funding priorities for grants to support a range of maternal and infant health services in the greater Stafford community.

• 3/14/2025 Statewide Healthcare Facilities and Services Plan Takes Effect March 15, 2025

  The Office of Health Strategy has published the Statewide Health Care Facility and Services Plan. The Plan and accompanying inventory, effective March 15, 2025, serve as advisory documents and a blueprint for health care delivery in Connecticut. <br>

• 2/19/2025 OHS Report Provides Insight into Pharmacy Benefit Manager Practices and Profits

  “Enhancing our understanding of the factors that influence the price consumers pay out of pocket for their medications gives us more opportunity to address affordability,” said Deidre Gifford, MD, MPH, Commissioner. “The challenges are complex. Research like this better equips us to develop effective public policy to protect patients.”

• 2/13/2025 Guidehouse to Host Virtual Community Forum on Need for Windham Area Birthing Center

  Guidehouse will host a virtual community forum on Thursday, February 20, 2025, from 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM to provide an additional opportunity for community members to share their views on the need for a freestanding birthing center in the greater Windham area.

• 2/10/2025 OHS Seeks Public Comment on 2025 Preliminary Top List of Outpatient Prescription Drugs