Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Yale New Haven Health said Monday they've renewed their contract ahead of schedule, ensuring Yale's hospitals remain in network through 2020.

The Connecticut Insurance Department (CID) has lowered the average rate hike that Wallingford insurer Anthem requested for its large group health plans.

Matt Eacott's fall from Avon prep school student athlete to opioid misuser and an eventual heroin addiction may have had a sad ending, if he hadn't found a unique in-home treatment program.

Health insurers are wielding their significant influence and claims data to address the nation's opioid crisis and are making headway in a key battlefront: encouraging doctors to prescribe fewer opioids that can turn addictive and deadly.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut and Community Medical Group (CMG), an independent practice association of more than 950 physicians based in New Haven, said they have updated and expanded their value-based contract.

Connecticut faces negative repercussions from threats to the Affordable Care Act and from the possible loss of the two remaining insurance companies on the state's health insurance exchange, Access Health CT CEO James Wadleigh said today.

Members of Congress will begin moving forward today with efforts to pass the American Health Care Act, a proposal to replace many of the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the health law commonly known as Obamacare.

Bloomfield insurer Cigna hopes its latest assault on the opioid epidemic — encouraging doctors to sign a pledge to reduce opioid prescribing — proves an effective arrow in its quiver of strategies to reduce customers' opioid use by 25 percent over the next three years.

The declining number of health insurers participating in the state's Obamacare exchange was front and center at a public hearing Wednesday regarding the nearly 27 percent rate hike Anthem has requested for its individual plans in 2017.

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