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Colorado hospital profits rose in 2024, but they're still far from pre-pandemic levels
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1151+ words) Colorado hospitals" finances rebounded in 2024 after taking a beating in the previous two years, but still haven"t regained their pre-pandemic heights, according to a pair of new state reports. Expenses grew faster than payments in 2022 and 2023, narrowing hospitals" margins…...
Colorado hospitals have the profits to help more patients financially (Editorial)
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (362+ words) Coloradans are getting crushed between hospital profits, insurance company profits and rising uncompensated care. These three insatiable drains on our health care system have broken medicine and made the cost of care for middle-class Americans who aren't on Medicaid or…...
Colorado lawmakers take another stab at spinning off Pinnacol, the state's workers' comp carrier
1+ week, 4+ day ago (795+ words) After several failed attempts to spin off Pinnacol Assurance through the state budget, supporters are now taking a different route " pushing new legislation that would lay the groundwork to convert Colorado's workers' comp program to a private entity. Speaker Julie…...
Flawed analysis caused Colorado Medicaid program's costs to surge and made it "attractive' to fraud
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1466+ words) A Colorado Medicaid program was beset with explosive costs and fraud after state officials relied on a flawed analysis and recommended the legislature nearly triple the program's reimbursement rate, The Denver Post has found. It appeared to set up a…...
DPS school board votes to keep Kaiser health insurance for at least a year
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (606+ words) Thousands of Denver Public Schools employees and their families will be able to keep their doctors with Kaiser Permanente Colorado for an additional year after the Board of Education voted Thursday to extend the district's contract with the insurer. The…...
Colorado's family-oriented tax credits gave "light and hope' to one mom " but costs make their future uncertain
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1751+ words) When Bukola Arije received a slew of new and expanded state tax credits last year to help raise her three children, she saw not only a chance to catch up on bills. She also saw a rare opportunity to take…...
For years, Colorado Medicaid mistakenly paid a program's providers several times too much " costing millions
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1052+ words) In November, Colorado Medicaid officials corrected a mistake. Five years earlier, they'd told contracted transportation providers in metro Denver to bill the state as if the providers were specialty ambulances. By 2022, those providers were billing the state for more than…...
UCHealth's commitment to caring for Coloradans in need is not shown in misleading report on profits (Opinion)
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (225+ words) These inaccuracies are easily disproven by publicly available data, and we believe it's important to set the record straight. UCHealth does more than any health system in Colorado to care for Medicaid patients, and we are proud to do so....
Out-of-pocket pain from high-deductible plans means skimping on care
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (1073+ words) By Charlotte Huff, KFF Health News David Garza sometimes feels as if he doesn't have health insurance now that he pays so much to treat his Type 2 diabetes. His monthly premium payment of $435 for family coverage is roughly the same…...
Coloradans weigh options as health insurance premiums double: "If something bad happens, are we going to go bankrupt?
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (1441+ words) As a cancer survivor, Alex Modisette doesn't want to go without health insurance, but she doesn't see another option as her family's monthly costs are set to rise more than 140%. Modisette, who owns a small construction business with her husband…...