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• 2/20/2020 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.

• 2/20/2020 OHS Releases CON Guide

• 1/28/2020 January 2020 OHS News

• 1/22/2020 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

• 12/2/2019 November 2019 OHS News

• 11/14/2019 Office of Health Strategy and Comptroller Lembo Release 2019 Connecticut Self-Sufficiency Standard Report

  (HARTFORD, CT) – The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (OHS) and State Comptroller Kevin Lembo today released the 2019 Connecticut Self-Sufficiency Standard report. The report examines the costs of basic needs such as housing, food, transportation, childcare, and healthcare in each city and town in the state, then calculates what individuals and families must earn to provide these fundamental supports without any financial assistance.

• 10/30/2019 OHS Releases Annual Hospital and Health System Financial Status and Facility Fees Trend Report

  (HARTFORD, CT) – The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (OHS) today released two reports, the Annual Report on the Financial Status of Connecticut’s Short Term Acute Care Hospitals and Facility Fee Trends. The Financial Stability report aggregates information concerning the financial health of Connecticut’s 28 acute care hospitals and 16 health systems. It includes financial performance data for individual hospitals, identifies fiscal trends, and reports on hospital hiring. The Facility Fee report examines current revenues generated by facility fees, the medical procedures that generate those fees, and the four-year trend data.

• 10/23/2019 October 2019 OHS News

• 10/18/2019 Office Of Health Strategy Issues Final Decision In Manchester Hospital/St Francis Hospital Certificate Of Need Application To Expand Cardiac Care

  (HARTFORD, CT) – Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (OHS) Executive Director Vicki Veltri today announced that a final decision has been rendered in the Manchester Hospital/St. Francis Hospital Certificate of Need application for the establishment of a diagnostic and emergency percutaneous coronary intervention (angioplasty) program at Manchester Hospital. Regulators approved the creation of primary—or emergency—angioplasty and upheld the June 2019 denial of elective angioplasty services. In rendering its final decision, OHS examined the original application and public hearing record in addition to considering new information brought forth by the applicants during oral argument.

• 10/8/2019 OHS HealthscoreCT Gets a Cost Estimator for Medical Care

  (HARTFORD, CT) – The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (OHS), joined by Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz, Senator Matt Lesser, co-chair, and Senator Kevin Kelly, ranking member, of the legislature’s Insurance and Real Estate Committee, today launched the Healthscore CT cost estimator, a consumer tool that allows users to compare the cost of medical care at Connecticut hospitals and provider networks. The interactive website allows consumers and providers to search, sort, and filter by location, health measure, provider, network quality rating, and cost.

• 10/3/2019 October Community Sessions with OEC

• 10/2/2019 Cost Feature

• 9/17/2019 September 2019 Accepting Applications for Community Health Worker Advisory Body Representatives

• 9/16/2019 September 2019 OHS News

• 8/23/2019 August 2019 Health Enhancement Community Initiative-Request for Proposal