America’s largest health insurance company covers double mastectomies for some 17-year-old girls who identify as transgender.
UnitedHealthcare covers double mastectomies for 17-year-olds with gender dysphoria Read More »
The Denver City Council on Monday will consider a $1 million contract to better utilize the city’s hospital system for homeless response efforts.
Denver considers $1M contract with Denver Health for homeless response Read More »
Health insurance prices in Colorado are set to climb again next year on the whole, but by a below-average amount, according to final, approved rates released Thursday.
Health insurance prices for some in Colorado will go up next year, an average of 5.6% Read More »
A legislatively mandated report on hospital-system facility fees that was released Tuesday appears likely to spark a new round of debate on whether the state should limit the fees that opponents call costly and unclear and that hospitals say are vital to offsite operations.
Report on hospital facility fees could stir new health-care regulatory efforts Read More »
Times have been getting tougher and tougher in health care. It shows up in the copays, the bills and now Colorado hospitals are facing a crisis.
Former clients of a Delta-based clinic that shut down early last month are still looking for mental and physical health care on the rural Western Slope.
Nurses willing to care for medically fragile children and adults — including patients who use feeding tubes, can’t walk or speak, and rarely leave their homes — are hard to find in Colorado.
Yuma District Hospital has been authorized by the board of directors to access up to $2 million of the district’s investments to help cover operations cost.
Yuma District Hospital will draw on reserve fund to cover $2.5M operating loss Read More »
By Linda Gorman Why do people in government refuse to listen when voters say no? This year’s House Bill 24-1075 would require the Colorado School of Public Health to “research and deliver” model legislation for a single payer health care system. In single payer systems, government sets health care prices, determines treatments, and then decides who gets treated.
Gorman: Colorado House Bill 1075 a looming health care debacle Read More »
