Disparities
Medicaid May Require Approval For Some Cancer Drugs
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A state panel wants doctors to get prior authorization before prescribing certain chemotherapy drugs to Medicaid patients.
Connecticut Health Investigative Team (https://c-hit.org/author/colleen-shaddox/page/4/)
A state panel wants doctors to get prior authorization before prescribing certain chemotherapy drugs to Medicaid patients.
As reliance on home care grows, inspections of agencies in Connecticut are backlogged, and the state rarely imposes financial penalties on agencies found with patient-care violations, a review by C-HIT has found.
Some Connecticut health insurers deny up to a third of the people who apply for individual coverage, an analysis of federal data shows.
Yale scientists are trying to develop a blood test to diagnose breast cancer in Hispanic women, who are at greater risk of dying from the disease than other white women.
Starting Jan. 1, the state will help Medicaid subscribers quit smoking, with services funded by a lawsuit Connecticut settled with the tobacco industry more than a decade ago.
Quality health care relies on patients and doctors communicating well, but in Connecticut medical interpretation is not covered by public or private insurance. In 2007 the state extended coverage for face-to-face professional interpreters for all Medicaid patients and estimated its cost at $4.7 million yearly, half of which would be reimbursed by the federal government. But the program has never been funded in the state budget, so none of the services promised under the law have ever been delivered.
Patients with chronic pain will get faster access to higher-cost prescription drugs starting Jan. 1
Most tooth whitening services performed in spas, salons and shopping malls were outlawed last week by the Connecticut Dental Commission.
The number of hospital patients having bad reactions to medications has gone up 52 percent in five years, according to a federal report.
State dentists could get a monopoly on the lucrative business of tooth whitening pending action by a commission they control.