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FCBJ this week THE MAYORS OF BRIDGEPORT and Stratford have agreed to reduce the size of Sikorsky Memorial Airport and to build a runway safety zone … 2 IN SPITE OF PRIVATE-SECTOR gains of 3,100 jobs in March, Connecticut’s unemployment rate was unchanged at 8 percent … 3
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April 29, 2013 | VOL. 49, No. 17
Special Report:
As pharmaceutical companies prepare for a regulatory change that will require them to disclose payments to doctors starting in 2014, the Business Journal examines data on payments made to Connecticut physicians from 2009 to 2012.
POLITICS SHOULD NOT TRUMP due diligence in determining the outcome of plans to relocate Stamford’s former South End boatyard … 4 A NEW PROGRAM TO FINANCE energy upgrades is poised to take off after launching in January, with more than 90 projects now in the pipeline … 9
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Shopping for insurance, with options
state’s small business marKetplace amonG the few to offer multiple health products BY PATRICK GALLAGHER pgallagher@westfairinc.com
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New York City nonprofit that runs a private health insurance exchange for about 3,500 organizations and their nearly 30,000 employees has been selected to manage Connecticut’s small business health insurance marketplace. HealthPass and its technolo�y partner bswift Inc., of Chicago, will manage Connecticut’s Small Business Health
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Options Program (SHOP), a feature mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With HealthPass at the reins, Connecticut is one of only a few states whose SHOP exchange, true to its name, will provide employers and their employees with multiple health insurance options from which to choose. Bowing to the administrative burdens of health care reform, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — which
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will operate health insurance exchanges for 33 states — recently said it would delay by one year a requirement that multiple insurance products be available through the SHOP exchanges by 2014. In recent testimony before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee, the CEO of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange noted that “the hallmark of health reform has been the concept of shared responsi» Insurance, page 8
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