Lawmakers Concerned By Hospitals Appealing Agreed-Upon Rates

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Lawmakers say they feel betrayed by hospitals appealing rate increases agreed to by the Connecticut Hospital Association and theadministration.
Martin Looney and Len Fasano, the Democratic and Republican Senate leaders, issued a statement Wednesday, calling it “a thoroughly disappointing andshocking development.”
The administration’s budget secretary, Ben Barnes, informed lawmakers that most of the state’s acute care hospitals have sent letter