The state Senate approved a pair of health bills that would cap insulin costs and extend telemedicine’s expansion through March.
telemedicine
Posted inHealth
House passes bills capping insulin costs, permitting broader telehealth services
The measure ensures pay parity and allows a wider range of providers to participate.
Posted inHealth
Lawmakers will debate two health care bills today. Here’s what they would do.
On the agenda for the special session are bills tackling the cost of diabetes drugs and boosting access to telemedicine.
Posted inPolitics
Trump, Lamont win commitments from insurers on coronavirus benefits
Most health insurers in Connecticut say they will fully cover testing and other services related to coronavirus.
Posted inHealth
Lawmakers, Malloy administration wrangle over telemedicine
WASHINGTON – Connecticut’s congressional delegation is at odds with the Malloy administration over its failure to apply for an expansion of the HUSKY program that would give low-income residents access to new telemedicine services, especially for psychiatric care and substance abuse treatment.
Posted inPolitics
CT optometrists sharply focused on banning online competition
A smartphone app that inexpensively checks eyes and renews prescriptions for contact lenses is cutting-edge, catnip for investors looking for the next big thing. But the political calculus of a bricks-and-mortar institution, the local optometrist, trying to ban the use of a disruptive web technology in Connecticut is decidedly old school.
Posted inHealth
Sick after hours? How to navigate your health care options
There’s no shortage of options for patients who are sick after hours or on weekends and don’t need to go to the ER: urgent care centers, retail clinics, even virtual visits through telemedicine. But what will you get from each of them? How do you decide where to go? Here’s some advice.
Posted inHealth
Five stories that can make 2016 a big year in health care
“I haven’t seen a time in my almost 10 years here in the state where there’s so much happening in health care,” says state Healthcare Advocate Victoria Veltri. Here are five health care stories to watch in 2016.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Health
Affordable energy bill advances; telehealth bill goes to governor
Bills designed to drive down Connecticut’s high electricity costs and to establish standards for telehealth both advanced during state legislative proceedings Wednesday.
Posted inHealth, Politics
The doctor is online, and lawmakers are prescribing some rules
Joanna Leach didn’t have time to get to the doctor to check out her lingering cold. So she flipped open her laptop, signed up for a service and was soon face-to-face — or screen-to-screen — with a doctor in another state, who diagnosed her and prescribed medication. That form of health care — known as telemedicine — is expected to become more common, and an attempt by legislators to regulate it has brought forward a debate on the shape it should take.