By Cara Rosner Most Connecticut hospitals will lose a portion of their Medicare reimbursement payments over the next year as penalties for having high rates of patients being readmitted, new data from the Centers for…
By Cara Rosner The state Department of Public Health (DPH) has fined six nursing homes for violations that resulted in injuries to residents. Cheshire Regional Rehabilitation Center was fined $3,000 after a resident, who required…
By Cara Rosner About half of Connecticut hospitals—15 out of 31—will lose part of their Medicare payments in 2018 as a penalty for having relatively high rates of patients who acquired preventable injuries and infections…
By Sujata Srinivasan A few years ago, patient navigators at Project Access-New Haven set out to see if they could change the course of health care treatment for some Medicaid patients who frequently used emergency…
By Jenifer Frank Nearly 1,500 children under the age of 6 tested positive for lead poisoning in 2014, according to the latest numbers from the state Department of Public Health. Overall, the number of lead-poisoned…
By Kate Farrish State health officials have fined five nursing homes at least $1,500 each in connection with residents who were abused or injured and one who died in July after being outside in sweltering…
By Maryellen Fillo When Alyson Hannan, 44, decided she was done having children, she chose Essure, a non-surgical permanent birth control option approved by the Food and Drug Administration.The day the tiny metal coils were…
The Safety of Your Social Security Number is at Stake Connecticut BBB, AARP and the Department of Consumer Protection are warning consumers about mailers that bear the Great Seal of the State of Connecticut, and…
By: Jodie Mozdzer Gil More Connecticut students report feeling sad and hopeless and they are seeking help at school-based health clinics, as more students become aware of the services, counselors say. Their problems range from…
By: Cara Rosner Breast cancer patients who have additional tissue removed during a partial mastectomy are half as likely to need a second surgery, according to a Yale Cancer Center study released today. The study…
By: Matthew Zabierek During her years at the University of Connecticut, Naomi Adler suffered such severe depression that sometimes, she couldn’t get out of bed to go to class. But students like her could not…
Most dieticians have been telling us that to lose weight we must eat less and exercise more. A news film called “Fed Up” is challenging that theory raising the possibility that it is sugary foods…
If you are a high earner you probably have been told you can’t make contributions to either a traditional IRA or to a Roth IRA. However, the Wall Street Journal says there is a way…
By: Magaly Olivero Hypertension rates among women in all eight Connecticut counties increased from 2001 to 2009, with disparities widening for African American women compared to whites and Hispanics, according to a C-HIT analysis of…
A Utah couple Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against an online retailer that retaliated against them for posting a negative review by “fining” them $3,500. Public Citizen, a nonprofit advocacy group, said it filed the…
By: Peggy McCarthy Veterans’ advocacy groups Thursday accused the Veterans Administration of discriminating against military sexual assault victims seeking benefits for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, saying they receive “significantly’’ more denials than veterans with other…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered Chase Bank USA, N.A. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to refund an estimated $309 million to more than 2.1 million customers for illegal credit card practices. This enforcement…
By: Magaly Olivero Time is running out for thousands of uninsured Connecticut residents who must decide whether to comply with a federal mandate to buy health insurance starting Jan. 1, 2014 or pay a penalty…
Chobani, Inc., of Twin Falls, Idaho is voluntarily recalling its Greek Yogurt products with expiration dates ranging between September 11th and October 13th, the Department of Consumer Protection reported today. According to information on the…
By: Lisa Chedekel At the Governor’s House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Simsbury, 17 of the nursing home’s 73 beds sat empty this spring – a 23-percent vacancy rate that would have been unlikely five…