By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
KEYSTONE — Medicaid patients who get access to “medical homes” are supposed to get better care and save taxpayers money, but so far, savings are minimal, prompting analysts to give Colorado a lower grade this year for delivering health care.
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Colorado’s Medicaid and health exchange managers simultaneously enrolled about 3,000 people in both public and private health insurance, creating confusion over who will pay claims that could approach $1 million per person for high-cost patients.
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Trapped inside her body, unable to speak or move anything but her eyelids, Denise Capelli nonetheless could hear her hospital caregivers.
Most assumed she was in an irreversible vegetative state that she wouldn’t survive. In fact, Denise became a witness to her own care.
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Sicker patients have prompted Denver Health to ask for a 17.5 percent hike next year in health insurance rates while the biggest carrier in western Colorado, Rocky Mountain Health Plans, is working to keep rates flat in high-cost resort counties.
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Kaiser Permanente is grappling with double the number of new customers that the nonprofit health provider projected it would attract through Colorado’s exchange this year.
To handle the surge in patients, Kaiser managers have opened new clinics, are offering some evening hours and are hiring the equivalent of about 70 new providers and support staff.
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