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Health reform will require fewer doctors than anticipated

by Amy Gillentine Published: December 13,2011

Tags: Affordable Care Act, Doctors, helath care, nurse practitioners, physician assistants

When 510,000 people are added to Colorado’s heath insurance rolls in 2014, the state won’t need as many new primary care doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants as once was believed. An analysis by the Colorado Health Institute says that people won’t have to overwhelm emergency rooms once they get insurance – they’ll be other routes [...] [...]

Doctors, hospitals reunite over finances (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: May 6,2011

Tags: Doctors, Health Care, hospitals

Hospitals and doctors are seeking greater commitments from each other as a way to gain economic security — but don’t call it a marriage yet. Newfound hospital and doctor commitments are likely to take several different forms — joint ventures, partnerships, employment — as the way health care is delivered changes nationwide, thanks to a combination [...] [...]

Doctors, nurses can apply to erase student loans (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: March 9,2010

Tags: Doctors, nurses, state health care professional loan repayment program, student loans

Colorado health care professionals could be eligible to receive up to $105,000 to pay off student loans. The state health care professional loan repayment program offers to repay loans to health care workers who are employed in an outpatient practice in a Colorado where there is a health professional shortage. Colorado Springs is one of those shortage [...] [...]

Program shows success with pay for performance (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: August 21,2009

Tags: Doctors, Health Care

Pilot programs that reward doctors and hospitals for performance and quality medicine pay off in terms of financial savings and patient health. During the past five years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been rewarding doctors in private practice, as well as hospitals, for improving the quality of care and reducing the effects of [...] [...]

Physician price gouging?  (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: August 21,2009

Tags: Doctors, Health Care, Insurance

Study claims that doctors are dramatically raising prices for out-of-network care The health insurance industry has fired another salvo in the health care reform battle, releasing a study that claims doctors are overcharging patients — sometimes by as much as 4,000 percent. America’s Health Insurance Plans claims that doctors who choose not to participate in health networks charge fees [...] [...]

Doctors shifting gears  (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: June 19,2009

Tags: Doctors, Health Care

It could be the prescription for future health care: doctors working for hospitals instead of in private, independent practices. No longer able to meet the rising costs of malpractice insurance, deal with paperwork and juggle patients on their own, many physicians are going to work for hospitals. “It’s significant,” said Dr. Steve Berkshire, health care administration professor [...] [...]

Springs docs among nation’s most influential (access required)

by Becky Hurley Published: May 15,2009

Tags: Doctors, USA Today

Twenty Colorado Springs physicians are listed among the nation’s most influential doctors in a USA Today public database opened this week. The local doctors were among 6,000 in 300 metro areas considered to be leaders in their communities in treating one or more of four key chronic conditions: diabetes, asthma, hypertension and high cholesterol. The database was [...] [...]

Colorado’s doctors face right amount of discipline (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: May 1,2009

Tags: Doctors, Grants, health, Illness

Colorado is one of the top 10 states when it comes to serious disciplinary actions for doctors – and this, according to publiccitizen.org, is good news. The state had 4.5 actions – including revocations, surrenders, suspensions and probations – for every 1,000 doctors, making it ninth of 10 states. The other states with the most disciplinary [...] [...]

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