Most areas of the country have only a single health insurer, according to a report from the American Medical Association, and that means that the marketplace is less competitive than it should be. The report shows that the three top managed care plans in the United States have consolidated market concentration to the point there [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Telehealth Network has developed a new program to allow hospitals, imaging centers, clinics and other health care providers to store and share medical images digitally through a private cloud. The cloud will hold the medical images securely and is managed by GNAX Health f. The groups are working with the Colorado Regional Health [...]
Continue reading …he Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act failed to solve one health care riddle: how to pay for long-term care for the rising tide of the nation’s aging population.
Continue reading …A Dallas-based provider of health care screenings for businesses in more than 20 states has indentified Colorado Springs as one of its first markets for expansion. Star Wellness is seeking to franchise the business as part of a larger plan designed to expand the company’s presence nationwide. One franchise is needed in the Springs to [...]
Continue reading …Centura Health is continuing to integrate, expand and collaborate. The parent company for Colorado Springs-based Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has announced it will integrate two Kansas-based hospitals into its network. Centura is the largest health care network in the state. St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kan., and St. Rose Ambulatory and Surgery Center [...]
Continue reading …Colorado will be part of a 37-state, $90 million settlement with GlaxoSmithKline to resolve allegations that the drug manufacturer unlawfully promoted Avandia, a diabetes medication. Under the settlement, announced by Attorney General John Suthers, the state will receive $1.9 million in funds because the pharmaceutical company did not disclose all the medication’s negative side [...]
Continue reading …Fourteen local nonprofits will receive $150,000 in grants from the Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation. The nonprofits will provide access to health care, food, transportation, counseling, therapy and health education. – UCCS Aging Center – $28,000 to support clinical services in their Integrated Behavioral Health and Medical Health Program – CASA – $15,000 in program support [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs City Council will vote on seven finalists for the new Memorial Hospital Board at their Nov. 13 meeting. Selected for Council approval: Frank Caris, CEO of dpiX; Dick Celeste, former Colorado College president and principal at RFC NextAct; Karla Grazier, CEO of Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado; Robin Johnson, a doctor [...]
Continue reading …Memorial Hospital has added two new neurosurgeons that specialize in brain and spinal surgery. John McVicker and Todd Thompson are part of a larger physician team associated with the University of Colorado Health that spans the Front Range, and are the latest in a growing number of doctors Memorial hired in the past year. McVicker [...]
Continue reading …Some changes to the health care industry will stand no matter who becomes president, according to a panel of experts in Colorado Springs last week for the Colorado Rural Health Center. “It doesn’t matter what it’s called,” said Michael McNeely, deputy director of the hospital-state division of the Office of Rural Health Policy. “Call it [...]
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