By Donna Marshal
Employers across Colorado, whose health insurance costs have doubled over the past decade and could easily do so again, should become familiar with a new website called Colorado Medical Price Compare. For the first time ever, it provides online, publicly available access to both price and quality information for select services performed at hospitals across the state.
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
The cost of giving birth in 2010 was so exorbitant in Steamboat Springs that Kathleen Huron and her husband, both teachers, opted to have their second daughter at home with a midwife.
By Matthew Valeta
The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (CCHI) has given close scrutiny to nine health insurance plan filings that will impact approximately 98,628 policyholders in Colorado. Far too often, insurance companies try to pass premium increases onto consumer without justifying why these higher costs exist.
By Donna Smith Remember Liz Fowler? She was the Wellpoint executive who took a brief sabbatical from her direct paychecks from the private health insurance industry to write the Affordable Care Act while working for Senator Max Baucus. Once that project was wrapped up, Liz went to work briefly for the U.S. Department of Health…
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Lacrosse is the fastest growing high school sport in the country with 170,000 athletes now playing, and a new study shows girls could benefit from wearing helmets like boys do.
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