Friday, March 12, 2010

Connecticut State Resources:

1. State Insurance Commissioner:

The Insurance Department encourages consumers who have a concern or complaint against an insurance company or insurance licensee to submit their concerns or complaints to the Department’s Consumer Affairs Division.

http://www.ct.gov/cid/cwp/view.asp?q=254352

2. State Medical Board:

Consumers and their families may file complaints about health care providers or with the Connecticut Department of Public Health.

To file a complaint: http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/view.asp?a=3121&q=387678&dphNav_GID=1821

To search for complaints filed: http://www.physicians.dph.state.ct.us/web_public/web_public.show

3. State Minority Office:

Contact information for the state liason representative.

http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/content.aspx?ID=6843&lvl=2&lvlID=187&State=CT

4. State Nursing Board:

Consumers and their families may file complaints about health care providers or with the Connecticut Department of Public Health.

To file a complaint: http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/view.asp?a=3121&q=387678&dphNav_GID=1821

To search for complaints filed: http://www.physicians.dph.state.ct.us/web_public/web_public.show

5. State Midwifery Organization:

This site helps you find a midwife, in Connecticut , for a home, birth center or hospital birth with Direct Entry Midwives(DEM), Certified Nurse Midwives(CNM), Certified Midwives (CM), Certified Professional Midwives(CPM), Licensed Midwives(LM), Registered Midwives (RM) and Lay Midwives.

http://connecticutmidwives.net/

Alliance of Connecticut Midwives
c/o Joan Mershon, CPM
2 Alpine Dr.
Sandy Hook, CT  06482-1203
(203) 426-4248
E-mail:  CTmidwife@aol.com

6. State Friends of Midwives:

Unable to locate.

7. State Healthy Start or Associated Improved Pregnancy Program/Director's email:

Healthy Start is a health insurance program for low income pregnant women.

http://www.infoline.org/InformationLibrary/Documents/HEALTHYSTART.asp

8. State Pregnant Patient's Bill of Rights or Patient's Bill of Rights:

Unable to locate.

9. State Medicaid Complaint Information:

The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit protects the State of Connecticut and its taxpayers by investigating and prosecuting fraud committed by those health care professionals and facilities who provide services paid for by Medicaid, the government health insurance program for lower income people.

http://www.ct.gov/csao/cwp/view.asp?a=1798&q=285772

 

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