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Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic lawmakers want to cap state insurance payments to hospitals, but providers say they're already operating in the red.
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Dr. Charles Frankum is one of the rare few medical specialists who pilots around rural Colorado and Kansas to provide medical services in hard-to-reach areas.
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Health system collaborates with community partners as it plans to open Precourt Healing Center this spring.
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Insurers were supposed to start covering recreational prosthetics on Jan. 1, but the state is still deciding how to implement the law
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Hospitals yank services as threat of withheld federal funding looms
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They would use the money saved on payments to hospitals to reinvest in the state’s community health centers, which serve some of the state’s poorest people.
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A new vending machine opened recently in Boulder. But instead of chips or sodas, this machine dispenses items like drug testing strips or condoms. Supporters hope the machine helps reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections and prevents drug overdoses. We’ll hear all about the idea behind ‘harm reduction' vending machines on today’s In The NoCo.
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KFF Health °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ Colorado teamed up with WyoFile over the last eight months to investigate the little-known eye and tissue donation industry through the lens of the eye bank that collects most of the donated eye tissue in Colorado and Wyoming. What they found is that tissue donations are guided by very different rules than organ donations.
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The US Attorney's Office says UCHealth miscoded certain emergency room visits. The hospital chain continues to deny the allegations, saying they agreed to pay to avoid lengthy and costly litigation.
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A new website, Colorado Hospital Price Finder, lets users cross-reference the cost of medical procedures at hospitals across the state. The service, created by nonprofit PatientRightsAdvocate.org, is part of the Polis Administration’s strategy to bring down healthcare costs.