Sujata Srinivasan

4 weeks ago | ctpublic.org | Sujata Srinivasan

Published March 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM EDT Insurance company United Healthcare’s contract with hospital chain Hartford HealthCare is set to expire Monday. If the contract expires thousands of people could lose access to their doctors or face high out-of-network costs. United has more than 600,000 members in Connecticut and offers access to more than 26,000 providers statewide.

1 month ago | ctpublic.org | Sujata Srinivasan

Published March 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM EDT Proposals to limit private equity ownership of Connecticut hospitals are gaining bipartisan support in the state legislature, as Waterbury Hospital, Manchester Memorial, and Rockville General Hospital in Vernon struggle to fund a buyer. Those community hospitals are in dire straits after their owner, private equity-funded Prospect Medical, filed for bankruptcy in January, and a purchase agreement with Yale New Haven Health fell through.

1 month ago | ctpublic.org | Sujata Srinivasan

Wonder where all the money coming into the health care system goes? When it comes to large, publicly-traded health care companies, like pharmaceutical giants, for-profit hospitals and insurers, a new study from the Yale School of Medicine offers an answer. Between 2001 and 2022, “we found that they distributed $2.6 trillion to shareholders,” said Dr. Victor Roy, assistant professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Pennsylvania.

1 month ago | ctmirror.org | Sujata Srinivasan |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis

A last-minute deal was reached in Pennsylvania to keep two hospitals owned by Prospect Medical Holdings open, but the fate of the organization’s hospitals in Connecticut is still uncertain following the collapse of a deal with Yale New Haven Health in February. Lawmakers in Pennsylvania at a public hearing this moth discussed keeping the two Prospect hospitals running in that state. The hearing came after Prospect filed for bankruptcy in January.

1 month ago | ctpublic.org | Sujata Srinivasan

Emergency department boarding – when patients are held, often in hallways, as they await an inpatient bed – is getting renewed scrutiny in Connecticut. The attention comes following the release of a new report from the Connecticut Hospital Association, which found nearly 40% of patients in emergency departments across Connecticut were boarders.