Connecticut Healthcare Intel

The Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis at UConn's School of Business maintains a curated collection of U.S. health care data resources from the National Center for Health Statistics, covering topics such as aging, births, deaths, life expectancy, and population growth.

The Connecticut Department of Public Health offers programs, services, and assistance to help Connecticut providers and families stay healthy.

Physicians Thrive has published a guide on how to navigate the Connecticut medical license lookup through the state's official portal to verify your own or another's license.

Connecticut has published Medicare provider utilization and payment data on its state open data portal.

The Connecticut Department of Public Health offers a single portal to verify nursing, physician, behavioral health, and cosmetology licenses.

The MIPS cost performance category is calculated retrospectively by CMS using attributed Medicare claims; clinicians cannot directly affect what is attributed. The two attribution methods (TPCC and MSPB) capture different beneficiary cohorts. Practices that try to "manage" cost without understanding which patients are attributed to which clinician typically waste effort.

Across most payors, the top-five denial reasons account for over 80% of prior-auth rejections: missing clinical documentation, wrong CPT/HCPCS code, service not in benefit plan, step-therapy not completed, and ordering provider not on the patient's plan. The same five repeat across plans because they are the easiest to deny on automation.

A vendor is a business associate if they create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI on behalf of the covered entity. They are NOT a business associate just because they happen to be in a building with PHI or could conceivably access it. The functional test matters, not the proximity test.