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Are Colorado Hospitals Building ACA’s ‘Community Benefit’ Floors?
Are Colorado Hospitals Building ACA’s ‘Community Benefit’ Floors? Reports are In, But Interpretation is Tricky Home News First, the good news. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act and regulatory changes made in recent years by the Internal Revenue Service, a …
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Improving the ACA
Improving the ACA A Delicate Dance Home News The Affordable Care Act has survived more than five years of nonstop challenges nearly intact. Yet even those inclined to endorse its sweeping benefits point out the act’s internal structure and external …
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Doctors & the ACA
Doctors & the ACA More Time with Patients, If They are Lucky Enough to Get in the Door Home News For all the complex debate about health reform policies, the massive changes to health coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act still pay off in their …
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ACA Leads to More Robust Care in San Luis Valley
ACA Leads to More Robust Care in San Luis Valley Home News For decades, residents of the vast San Luis Valley have found their way to basic health care services. No one was turned away. But many left emergency rooms and doctors’ offices with no means to …
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Big Numbers and Small Dignities
Big Numbers and Small Dignities Five Years of the ACA in Colorado Home News The numbers have indeed changed in five turbulent years: The totals of uninsured dropping by the millions. Leaping insurance premiums, for now, calming to relatively tame levels. …
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Karen McNeil-Miller Named Chief Executive Officer of the Colorado Health Foundation
Karen McNeil-Miller Named Chief Executive Officer of the Colorado Health Foundation Home News DENVER, CO —The Colorado Health Foundation ’s Board of Directors has selected Karen McNeil-Miller as its next president and chief executive officer. Currently …
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New Report Highlights that Colorado Youth Don’t Make the Grade on Physical Activity
New Report Highlights that Colorado Youth Don’t Make the Grade on Physical Activity Local Public Health Agencies Hold Keys to Improvements Home News DENVER, CO – “ Colorado Health Report Card Extra Credit: Get Active ” was released today in honor of …
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Colorado Health Foundation Statement on Proposed Rules Affecting Non-Medical Immunization Exemptions
Colorado Health Foundation Statement on Proposed Rules Affecting Non-Medical Immunization Exemptions Home News DENVER, CO – The Colorado Health Foundation today submitted a letter to the Colorado Board of Health supporting the Colorado Department of …
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Colorado KaleidosCOpe: Colorado Mental Wellness Network - The Power of Peer Support
Colorado KaleidosCOpe: Colorado Mental Wellness Network - The Power of Peer Support Home News The Colorado Mental Wellness Network (The Network) is a grassroots nonprofit organization created and operated by individuals who live with a mental health …
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Visual Guide to the Integrated Care Issue
Visual Guide to the Integrated Care Issue Home News Integrating care is not just an abstract debate among policy wonks. Sometimes it's a simple matter of putting mental health counselors chair-to-chair with doctors and nurses, with a dental exam available …
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Private Pay, Public Goals
Private Pay, Public Goals How Anthem is Pushing Primary Care Reform Home News While public and nonprofit insurers and providers slowly broaden their experiments transforming primary care in Colorado, the for-profit giant Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has …
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Can a $65M SIM Golden Goose Pay for Next-Level Integration?
Can a $65M SIM Golden Goose Pay for Next-Level Integration? Home News As Colorado health system reformers toiled away on experiments, pilot programs, Affordable Care Act mandates and other complex problems in recent years, the potential of a large gift …