Connecticut’s small group fully insured health insurance market is losing another major insurer. Farmington-based ConnectiCare, which is owned by New York’s EmblemHealth, emailed a letter to brokers Monday afternoon, notifying them the company “has made the difficult decision to withdraw from the Connecticut fully insured, small group market,” according to a copy of the email obtained by the Hartford Business Journal.
Inspectors found that an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital made numerous errors in administering epidurals. Some were life-threatening. One was fatal.
Many doctors worry that the drugs' current popularity, fueled in part by social media, has resulted in people taking them without sufficient medical supervision.