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[KFF Health News @KFFHealthNews]

Lawsuits by doctors and other nonhospital providers now dominate health care collections in Connecticut, legal records show, accounting for more than 80% of cases filed against patients in recent years.

@NoamLevey, @JNCWriter & Katy Golvala report ⤵️
https://t.co/krzmEsiu4O

[Jenna Carlesso @JNCWriter]

Lawsuits by doctors and other non-hospital providers now dominate health care collections in Connecticut.

CT Mirror and KFF Health News analyzed thousands of lawsuits against patients. This is the first story in a series.

https://t.co/b6FysnY0eR

[National Press Foundation @NatPress]

@FOX9 @CTMirror The FOX 9 recipients are @nateoneal and Casey Hooker. The CT Mirror recipients are @JNCWriter, Andrew Brown, @davealtimari
and Katy Golvala. @AngelasInk of @SpotlightPA received an honorable mention for her work investigating elder abuse in Pennsylvania. https://t.co/jpjYS7lUfV

[National Press Foundation @NatPress]

.@FOX9 and the @CTMirror have won the 2025 AARP Awards for Excellence in Journalism on Aging in the large and small categories, respectively. Both winners covered the troubled industry of long-term care insurance.
https://t.co/TZMlmhPZvX

[Connecticut Mirror @CTMirror]

Murphy calls for CT ban on private equity ownership in health care https://t.co/ELudzt2Im4

[Andrew Brown @Andy_Ed_Brown]

Meanwhile, CT DPH promised the state's water utilities that the agency would not release their lead service line inventories online.

The CT Mirror did that for them for the 60 largest water utilities in CT.

You can search those addresses here:

https://t.co/GBI2gEsC4V

[AngelaEichhorst @AngelaEichhorst]

Amazing work by my colleagues. Check if your home is one of many in Connecticut with lead pipes.

[The Sunday Long Read @sundaylongread]

Happy Sunday! Today, we celebrate our 500th edition. Thank you for your reading. Your support drives us to continue publishing a longform journalism newsletter that is best in its class. Please enjoy! https://t.co/RlHO7dsbIG

[Connecticut Mirror @CTMirror]

Waterbury: CT Mirror's Conversation on Lead Water Lines https://t.co/IJjoyB8kHm

[Dave Altimari @davealtimari]

Have you wondered what you're drinking from your faucet? A Mirror team spent months investigating lead in pipes, they knocked on doors from Greenwich to Willamantic, created interactive databases and climbed underground for photos, great, important work. https://t.co/tvhLsnVmmG

[Connecticut Mirror @CTMirror]

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Up to 8,000 lead service lines could still be supplying CT residences and other properties. This data is the first public look at the scope.

With @pulitzercenter:

https://t.co/JbeTrovE3Q

[Jenna Carlesso @JNCWriter]

A majority of the suspected lead lines are located in lower-income neighborhoods in Bridgeport, Willimantic, Middletown, New London and Waterbury – places that have significant Black and Hispanic populations and are designated by the state as environmental justice communities.

[Jenna Carlesso @JNCWriter]

Data obtained by the CT Mirror provides the first public look at how many people in Connecticut could be consuming water that travels through lead lines. And it highlights how that aging infrastructure is not distributed equally throughout the state.

[Jenna Carlesso @JNCWriter]

The Connecticut Mirror spent more than six months analyzing data, knocking on doors, reviewing records and talking to experts to understand the scope of the lead service line problem in CT.

Thousands might still be drinking from lead pipes.

https://t.co/jCUvkL2CDE

[Jenna Carlesso @JNCWriter]

As CT lawmakers debate what to do with a flurry of bills that would add consumer protections for long-term care insurance, the state just received a request to increase the cost of one company's coverage by 560%.

https://t.co/4nX78Rx4gd

[Dave Altimari @davealtimari]

This bill to improve training for home companion workers is a direct result of our aging series last year where we highlighted how this fast growing field is unregulated and basically unlicensed the "Wild West" as one expert told us. https://t.co/HMIkToYWy9

[Connecticut Mirror @CTMirror]

How CT Mirror investigated the long-term care insurance industry https://t.co/liGAUV4fun

[Connecticut Mirror @CTMirror]

Policyholders press CT lawmakers for long-term care insurance reform https://t.co/c2KuXCRcgY

[Jenna Carlesso @JNCWriter]

As part of our “Priced Out” investigation into long-term care insurance, @Andy_Ed_Brown discovered the CEO of Genworth, a major insurer, received $9.8M in pay, a portion of which was directly tied to the company’s success in raising rates on policyholders

https://t.co/yDxeQMr9AR

[Jenna Carlesso @JNCWriter]

Fewer people are able to afford long-term care insurance as the cost of annual premiums soars and the price of new plans is out of reach for many. In CT, rate increases often exceed 50% and for a few dozen people, they’re as high as 174%.